""Never mind me, the fact that Thatcher got old did not make her any better nor did it absolve her. She chose who to oppress and deserves retribution.""

Funny that. I was probably among the lowest earners in the country, and I didn't feel oppressed.

I suspect you refer to the miners, those deluded men who thought Arthur Scargill was the Messiah.

As far as I could see, the miner's strike was about Arthur making a name for himself, at the expense of his members and the country at large.

1. No company can afford to keep mines running when the cost of mining the coal is as much as, or more than, its sale value.
2. We were just starting to recover from the fiscal quagmire bequeathed by Wilson/Callaghan.
3. The pay rises Scargill was demanding would have jeopardised the viable pits, as well as the uneconomical.
4. An offer was made at the outset of the action, which was rejected, with derision, by Scargill.
5. The number of miners who did not join the strike, was an indication that Scargill got it wrong, an indication which he arrogantly chose to ignore.
6. At the end of a year he took his men back to work for exactly what they had been offered at the outset, but so much damage had been done that the mining industry never recovered.

Men died, some at the hands of police, some murdered by militant miners, and Scargill was every bit as much to blame as Thatcher.

I don't see anyone making the same kind of remarks about him.

Don T.