[Claymores]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Of course it became a battle of wills, but the points you make dont disagree with my comments in fact they support them. Thatcher didnt close any mines, it was the economics of reopening them that actually destroyed the mining industry, to save a few hundred jobs Scargill brought the industry down, costing thousands of jobs. It was the same in the area where I was raised.

I accept some of what you say - it was a bugger that the battle of wills turned into job losses.....it was not only the miners who lost industry, Methil dockyards closed as no high quality coal to move around, shops closed as no money floating about and the area I was raised became an area of multiple deprivation under the European Community (as was then) dafinition. Your "a few hundred" was thousands deep below the poverty line

I strongly remember when I was at Uni at the time, Socialist Worker collectors asking for 20p to stop Maggie starving the kids and I'd give a fiver then not eat for 2 days as skint.

Then Maggie tested the poll tax out on Scotland just to add insult to injury