Annis, what little respect I had left for the law and the police went out through the window during the miners strike.
Maggie Thatcher once described the coal miners as THE ENEMY WITHIN. These are the people that went down the pits and who helped shape this country to what it was.
Hundreds of thousands of ex Miners suffered from the work related illnesses which are so common to the trade, thousands died at an early age and hundreds were killed and injured in accidents.
The Miners were hard working decent folk trying to save their jobs and the very social wellbeing of their pit villages and close knit communities. They were treated like dirt for doing so.
During the Miners Strike the uk became a Police State as police was drafted in from the met and south wales (bully boys),
Two miners was killed on the picket line whilst thousands of miners were hospitalised, injured or jailed on trumped up charges, but the police waved their overtime money at them on the picket lines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw9zbTsKNAA