none of theabove alters the fact that the decision was tasken by the executive , not scargill, who was not in the room. and here we have musket going on about scargill, why does he not rant on about mcgahey or the other miners leaders who made up the majority or the 3 that abstained, why?because he has an agenda. Musket ,
i am not a fan of Scargil[ i think the strike was ill timed, neither do i regard him as some convenient person to lump all the blame upon.
your posts exposes you as someone with a political agenda and someone with not much between your ears.
Gormley through regional committees introduced productivity schemes which enabled the government to stock pile coal, so that future strikes [like 1984,did not stand a chance of succeeding], lord gormley the special branch informer, sold his members down the river, more than once, the first time,byreporting on union mettings to the special branch, and the second time , by creating a precedent of voting through regional committees.
mrs thatcher was in the heath government that was defeated by the miners strike in 1972, she was determined to defeat the miners and in my opinion was looking for an excuse for a confrontation.