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  Scargill was out to bring down the government and you know it GaryC.
  
  He used the miners as useful pawns in his political ambitions. Thankfully a significant proportion refused to be used by him and carried on working. Those brave working miners defied the violent thugs on the picket line day after day and it is they on whom the wartime spirit of the miners rested, not the strikers. I am sure that many more would have defied Scargill if it had not been for the bullying and intimidation.
  
  The enemy within was not the miners per'se but the Union extremists and thugs who did Scargills bidding.
  
  I agree with you though - it is unjust to think of the miners only in the sense of strikers and those ordinary miners who are ill and suffer deserve our sympathy.
  
  We all know that Scargill was planning to strike from the October. We also know about the work to rule that reduced coal production which he hoped would deplete coal stocks at the power stations. We also know that it was in the national interest to force him into calling his strike early before those stocks were depleted and that is exactly what happened. Scargill is the man who you should blame for all the hardship of the strike, no-one else. The country benefited from his defeat and the end of the Trade Union monster that so destroyed many industries.
  
  Remember as well, more mines were closed under Wilson and Callaghan than under Mrs T.

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