"So, Jim Carroll, are you ready to withdraw your comment?"
Of course I most certainly not - the photograph I chose is Iconic of what happened at Orgreve and elsewhere https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/dec/02/miners-strike-orgreave-special-report where miners, their families and their supporters were beaten down by mounted police and those on foot carrying shields and batons
It was a vicious breach of democracy by Thatcher and her thugs compounded by the fact that she was prepared to use the army had she thought it necessary
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/03/margaret-thatcher-secret-plan-army-miners-strike
Thatcher was a self-confessed fascist who openly declared her admiration for a mass-murderer's style of government and described those who tried to bring him to trial for his crimes as "running a police state" (end of quote) – she even had her own little rally complete with crossed British/Chilean flags
Pinochet's crimes are beyond denial – there, but for what passes for British democracy, limited as it is, would have gone Britain, and I have no doubt that the miners would have held pride of place among her victims
Jim Carroll