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  GaryC - Thank you for clarifying your attitude to the violence, we are then agreeing that the violence was unacceptable from whatever side. Sad that you could not post that without an unwarranted personal attack but then I have come to expect that.
  
  I certainly agree that working miners did have homes vandalised, were assaulted and spat at and I accept that there was also very likely some unwarranted actions of that kind to strikers as well. Who the guilty parties were is another matter, Scargill's bullies trying to keep the men in line is most likely there. If any police officer were found to have done that then that officer should have the book thrown at him and treated even more severely than a striker due to their position of responsibility. I can also understand why a working miner might of done that in retaliation and that is equally inexcusable.
  
  At the end of the day the police were there to enforce the law and to enable working miners to go about there job.
  
  The mob was there to bully and intimidate.
  
  That is the bottom line.

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