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  Of course they weren't- the miners were the backbone of the country, doing a highly dangerous job for the benefit of the nation.
  It's a pity that at the height of the strike, the union leadership didn't realise that they had Thatcher's American hatchet man on the backfoot. My feeling is, had there been more insight on the part of the union that there would have been enough of the industry left intact to modernise the industry en bloc and keep the mining communities where they deserved to be-in work.
  Increasingly we find ourselves reliant on our our European neighbours for power resources. Not a very secure situation.

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