The truly great Billy Bragg has this piece over at Comment is Free just now in which he correctly describes the consequences of Margaret Thatcher's victory over the miners, who began their famous strike 25 years today.
Whatever you think about miners' leader Arthur Scargill, and he certainly made many mistakes and suffers deep psychological flaws, everything he claimed would come to pass were the Tory government to get its way has done so.
Hearing the obsequious Lord Tebbitt talking about the context of the strike on the Today programme this morning was really quite vomit-inducing, so it's good to see the Bard of Barking putting the record straight.
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