Newly released cabinet papers from 1984 reveal mineworkers’ union leader Arthur Scargill may have been right to claim there was a “secret hit-list” of more than 70 pits marked for closure.
The government and National Coal Board said at the time they wanted to close 20. But the documents reveal a plan to shut 75 mines over three years.
A key adviser to then-PM Margaret Thatcher denies any cover-up claims.
The miners’ strike began in March 1984 and did not end until the next year.
The really surprising thing is that many people didn’t already know ( more like don’t want to know ) that all of the figures relied on by the government to close down the uk mining industry were rigged.Or the idea that many of the ‘police’ attacking people on picket lines were actually more likely forces personnel dressed in police uniforms. 
I t was all set up by Maggie and her cronies to destroy the unions. Wait until some more revaluations are released under the thirty year rule !
The unions destroyed themselves by firstly putting too much trust in ‘Labour’ governments and the idea of ‘Socialism’ and secondly by forgetting that there’s no need for picketing at all if the unions all stand together by calling a general strike and staying out until they’ve won regardless of which government is in power.In the case of the 1984 miners strike it was lost before it had begun through lack of union solidarity.Which is why the country is where it is now.
Carryfast:
The unions destroyed themselves by firstly putting too much trust in ‘Labour’ governments and the idea of ‘Socialism’ and secondly by forgetting that there’s no need for picketing at all if the unions all stand together by calling a general strike and staying out until they’ve won regardless of which government is in power.In the case of the 1984 miners strike it was lost before it had begun through lack of union solidarity.Which is why the country is where it is now.
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They should hqve put scargill, the big nosed ■■■■■■ on the hit list 
scania730lover:
They should hqve put scargill, the big nosed ■■■■■■ on the hit list
He was proved right about the closures, whatever you may think of him 
BLOODY FIDDLER 
In February 2012, Scargill won £13,000 in a court action against the NUM, primarily for car expenses, and for the earlier temporary denial of membership. Scargill admitted there was ‘bad blood’ between him and the NUM general secretary Chris Kitchen, who said, “I honestly do believe that Arthur, in his own world, believes that the NUM is here to afford him the lifestyle that he’s become accustomed to.”[12] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. For years the NUM had been paying £34,000 annual rent for the flat on Scargill’s instructions, without the knowledge of NUM members or many senior officials
Dave the Renegade:
scania730lover:
They should hqve put scargill, the big nosed ■■■■■■ on the hit listHe was proved right about the closures, whatever you may think of him
If you check out the video made by the NUM at the time which I’ve posted you’ll see that the ‘secret’ closure plans were well known among the TUC leadership and the rank and file of the British unions not just Scargill and even amongst Labour MP’s like Skinner.The fact is the TUC bottled out of making a fight of it because at that point the British workers in general who made up the unions had also lost their bottle and motivation.Scargill has just been made a scapegoat by both the government and the TUC to cover up the fact that,as of 1979 at least,the unions were/are just a defeated rabble willing to accept any zb that the government and CBI threw at them.
It were well known about the secret closure list, the posh bird in the film ‘Brassed Off’ admitted it in the end, before they all went off into the sunset and won the best brass band award. 