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  I remember exactly what went on in that strike.
  
  There was no excuse for the violence and intimidation committed by the strikers.
  
  The mobs outside collieries, the vandalism to the both the police and working miners homes, the intimidation, the bullying and violence. I remember that very well.
  
  Those who participated in that behaviour (which I accept was not all strikers) earned the strikers as a whole nothing but disgust and contempt. Only those brave enough to carry on going to work through all of that deserve any kind of sympathy and support.
  
  As for the police. Some individual police officers may well have acted unprofessionally and in spite of the provocation they suffered, are no better than the mob as a result. As a whole though, they deserve our admiration, thanks and support for what they had to put up with and for what they did. I have friends and clients who were in the police at the time and found themselves holding back the baying mob being punch and kicked, spat at daily. They deserved every penny of the overtime they earned. The violent mob must never be allowed to rule.

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