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To contextualise why she evokes such a strong reaction from me as that I saw my dad, my uncles, my mates dads reduced to standing outside supermarkets accepting donations of food so that their families could eat, it wasn't games or some fanciful idealogy - this was a community of men who were able to work, who wanted to work with no money. not just 'a bit strapped' it was 'no fucking money to even buy food'. Many of the poor sods who caved and crossed the picket lines were forever ostracised and isolated within their communities.
Yup, there are loads of levels of blame and Scargill has got a lot to answer for but primarily the community I knew and the ones that surrounded it were sacrificed on Thatchers objective to break the unions - you want to see bleakness, try driving through an old pit or steel town
still angry - fuck yeah!