Diddlydoo: “TTT - have you ever stopped to consider the damage done to whole mining communities by Thatcher's actions?” – yes the medicine was harsh but the patient was dying needed it very badly. The mining industry was a leviathan of inefficiency and a bastion of union dogma, a fact even recognised by Labour, who, as pointed out, closed far more mines than the Tories.
“Do you not recognise the right of Trades Unions to strike without being met by police brutality such as was witnessed at Orgreave?”
Yes, I do when the strike is not politically motivated, questionable by the unions own democracy (show of hands, seriously?) and without the usage of illegal flying pickets, intimidation and violence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_David_Wilkie
“ And no, I'm not part of the snowflake generation - I witnessed these events via the news media and have seen the results in my travels to these persecuted communities. It makes me very sad.” – thank Scargill and co for that, they were the disease TGL was the cure. If the unions had been sensible then she would never have risen. They are the architects of TGL, I thank them very much, as does the western world.