The Nottinghamshire Miners were the willing dupes of the British ruling class, and they got their just desserts -the closure of their own mines. A very rich man once said that he could buy one half of the working class to fight the other - Nottinghamshire miners proved him right.
Scargill should have called a national ballot. This bloke is spouting nonsense about the Nottinghamshire miners. A national ballot would have settles it - all out or not. Talking out his arse.
your pit was probrebly losing the country milions in subsidies, would you keep spending on a credit card when you cant make enough to pay it off, this was the issue back in 1984
How were you betrayed by Notts, Scargill wouldn't have a national ballot, he said each area could have a vote, Yorkshire voted to strike, with others, Notts voted to work, so they were only following the NUMs directive, and as secondary picketing was illegal, it was the strikers breaking the law. A national ballot would have eliminated this problem.
