"Sorry Jim, but the past really is prehistoric."
You take Mrs Pinochet's line on the miners strike - no scabs my arse.
Which more or less sums up your attitude to MacColl - he didn't - so he's guilty of everything you say he is.
It's o.k. to write songs if they agree with your point of view - is that correct?
"wave their pay cheques in front of striking miners"
They were filmed doing so, as was the mounted bobby about to cleave open the head of a miners wife with his baton.
Thatcher was allowed to use the police as a private army against men defending their jobs - recent revelations reveal that she was about to use the army in the same way.
Jim Carroll