Originally Posted by Scucca

The miners were attacked as part of a revenge mission, given their part in the downfall of previous Tory regime. That revenge mission included ignoring the profit motive, with profitable pits closed down. Thatcherism was, in every way, an economic disaster: from monetarism to the crippling of our union movement (used, in conjunction with the elimination of the wages councils, to encourage low wage labour). We're still feeling the effects, as shown by our desperately high poverty rate and low skill equilibrium