i have witnessed police officers "bragging" about how arthur scargill helped pay off their mortgages or paid for their extension,some even wore badges proclaiming this whilst on duty during the picketing,this type of goading is enough to make any man crack the result being that at the time rags like the sun only reported things like,"rampaging miners attack police" and public support was with the government,but now the truth has been told the public are very sympathetic to the striking miners cause.