Sorry this thread should drop to oblivion so I am perhaps wrong in perpetuating it.

The butcher baker and candle stick makers were miners.   Nothing more nothing less. Miners. Payed the same dues and hung their arses over the same belts for a shit.

Not sure of your point. I was harassed by police before I returned and afterwards too. Whoever said the police don't discriminate have got it wrong. All miners were the same to the boys in blue from Merseyside and The Met...