[St Charles Owl]

Again, I can see what they want but I see no purpose or benefit to any further legal action. If there is to be an inquiry, then it should encompass the whole of the miner's strike, because Scargill and the leaders of the NUM should also be held responsible for a lot of went on. Thatcher was fairly open in her desire to crush the unions, taking on an NUM who were just as much up for the fight so that they could retain the power they had, was probably the most effective course of action to achieve that goal.

As you say, the unfortunate ones in all of this were the mining communities, they were decimated by two corrupt organisations fighting each other when in reality both of those organisations were in existence to help those very people, albeit in different ways. Thatcher was ruthless in her pursuit of the things she wanted and she let many ordinary folk down in that quest, but the NUM in this case were culpable of not remembering what their role was as representatives of the miners and were negligent in their duties in their pursuit of the fight Scargill wanted against a Tory government. There were no winners in this at the end of the day, lets not create a winner now, particularly as it would just be the lawyers who truly get to benefit from this mess over 30 years ago.