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  Gary - Kent miners being forced into industrial action by Mrs T is about on a par with Germany being forced in 1939 to go to war by the Polish!!
  
  The best thing Mrs T did was to reform the Trade Unions with some sensible legislation after Labour bottled out in the 60's, the time of Castle's 'In Place of Strife' and then Heath also bottled it with his U-turn. All Parties recognised the menace that was the Trade Unions, who were their own worse enemy. They brought it all upon themselves. If Scargill was a democrat and held a secret strike ballot he would have had a more united Union and could have claimed some of the moral high ground, the outcome could have been different, but he didnt, he relied on intimidation instead. Luckily for this country he was not clever enough to recognise that or didnt want to risk losing the ballot (a more likely outcome).

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