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Tony Bryer wrote:
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:29:27 +0000 (GMT) John Cartmell wrote :
With better leadership, and an earlier realisation of just how
illegal & immoral the government were prepared to go, the miners
might not have lost.

This may be a north/south thing but the violence (reported by a not
unbiased press of course) left a lot of people not caring whether the
miners were hung out to dry or not.

Is this the violence by imported police on very substantial bonuses, illegally
hiding their police numbers and taunting the unpaid striking miners with
commnets about those bonuses?

I like the story re-told on Friday about the miners on a picket line who built
a big, fat snowman only to have it deliberately flattened by police driving a
Rangerover.

Mean, nasty, spiteful, petty.


Not to be downhearted the pickets re-built their snowman even bigger than
before.

Only to have those nasty police flatten it again...





























...only this time they'd built it over a bollard.

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