(30 Oct 2014, 7:19 am)Andreos1 wrote http://m.sunderlandecho.com/news/local/a...-1-6922704
It's out there now.
Said a while back that this will be the next big 'no win-no fee' case and it just needs a test case to set the ball rolling.
Wasn't it proved earlier this year that Thatcher lied about Pit Closures in the 80's...
As for the Armed Forces on Picket Lines, I have heard a few stories of Soldiers being used, heard from people on both sides of the picket line, a few people told me they remember seeing Policemen without numbers and looking and talking like soldiers, I even read somewhere that the government were planinng to/did use the SAS on Picket Duty and a guy I consider to be a decent bloke and done a lot for me was in the Army in the 1980's and he was adamant he was on picket policing duty, I remember reading the official line was the Army weren't involved, but why would this guy lie to me, he had no reason to lie...I think it was him that said 'we were gearing up for Civil War, Thatcher was never going to back down, she would have took the country with her if Scargill got a sniff of victory'
The Miners Strike interests me, despite knowing little about it, it is nore of an interest this year as it is the 30th Anniversary, my old granddad once told me if his union had come out(NACODS), then Thatcher may have been forced to negotiate, but NACODS stayed at work as a skeleton workforce to keep pits running