@jon_trickett The Soviet agent Wilson closed twice as many coal mines as Thatcher did.
The UK's coal industry had been in terminal decline since 1910.
Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s, but sadly the trades unions resisted the inevitable.
@jon_trickett The miners attacked the police with bricks and bottles.
It was like how Communist thugs attacked the police in order to prevent a peaceful march in 1936.
Scargill began an illegal strike to bring down the elected government, and destroyed the NUM in the process.
@AndyMcDonaldMP Oh so plenty of time and money for forgotten incidents from 40 odd years ago, but they practically had to have their arms twisted off to investigate the systemic rape and abuse of 100s of thousands of our children all over the country.
@OldCodgerLeague@Bellyda38674922@AndyMcDonaldMP And before 1979? Did Callaghan and Wilson manufacture power cuts and mine closures? Scargill & Co - The Enemy Within, I believe is how Thatcher referred to them. Not wrong.
@AndyMcDonaldMP It's just another attempt to try and smear the Tories further and re-write the history books now much of the evidence has been destroyed. Other than this what will this very expensive inquiry achieve? π€
@AndyMcDonaldMP Labour are misusing police resources now. Youβre causing immense damage now! The community doesnβt trust the authorities and Labour .
Oh the irony of your tweet π