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  The strike was totally for political reasons, Scargill's....
  
  On the night of the 1983 election,he openly called for a revolution in the streets against Mrs T in a live BBC interview. He never did have the best interests of the miners at heart and those who followed him were mad as hatters.
  
  His sheer stupidity and that of the miners is underlined by their going on strike in the spring and knowing that the Government had wisely prepared by stocking coal for what was an inevitable confrontation.
  
  The miners reaped what they sowed, allowing themselves to be led by those nose by that Marxist idiot.
  
  One interesting fact between 1945 and 1979 there were 750,000 jobs lost in coal mining. Of those about 350,000 jobs went in the 6 years of Harold Wilson's Government between 1964 and 1970. That puts the 170,000 miners in 1984 Sid referred to into perspective.
  
  I am thankful that the miners were led by that fool as the defeat of this Union was essential to bring the economy back to sanity. There was nothing machiavellian about this, what happened was all down to Scargill, he bit off more than he could chew.

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