GSS and Ollaimh = what you are not getting is that Backwoodsman and Musket are from the mmidlands and Scargill was from Yorkshire, which they think of a north. The differences are long seated and tribal, rather than purely rational. The Yorkshire flying pickets were regarded as unclean spirits from the northern wilderness. I can see how an outsider might realise that union means one, and if you split - you're both going to get walloped - but it wasn't seen like that in Notts.

Only a few years before the yorkshire miners were perceived as having 'sold down the river' the Derbyshire miners. And Notts and Derby are very close to each other. A miner from Eastwood in Notts. might work down the road at Loscoe pit in Derbyshire.

So there was needle there, and it has to be said, a certain feeling of chickens coming home to roost = particularly amondst many of the miners who thought their fathers and older brothers had been sold out in the Robens shake out