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  Keith like you I am a great believer in unions and would also encourage people to join an appropriate one and I also agree that negotiation not confrontation is the better way forward, but and it is a big but you neglected to mention that Scargill never had the mandate of the miners to call a strike as he and is executive did it off their own backs. The whole terrible consequences of the strike were the result of a clash of personalities of two loathsome people neither of which were capable of understanding the point of view of anyone except themselves. Both of these protagonists have ended or are ending their days in quite comfortable surroundings whilst those communities destroyed in the 'conflict' are in most instances still struggling to recover.

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