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    I think Roger is a little off-beam there saying Arthur Scargill destroyed the mining industry and I would be interested to know why Roger thinks that way, as surely this is not the case. Arthur Scargill fought tooth and nail to keep the mines open after Mrs Thatcher and the Conservative government shut them down.

    He was not a popular man in government circles, who just hoped the mining problems would just go away somewhere far. He was ebullient and abrasive but as I understand it is still a hero among miners to this day. He fought to keep their jobs. In other words he did the opposite to what Roger suggests, and as I said earlier there, he fought to keep the mines open, in some of the most vicious strikes ever seen. He was arrested too on occasion by the constabulary as he was a hands-on mining leader and was in there in the thick of it.

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