... pressure onto the unions until one of them snapped. In 1984 the most powerful and most militant union went on strike. It was the miners union led by a Marxist, Arthur Scargill. Thatcher had ingeniously predicted and prepared for the strike; by stockpiling coal at power stations the effects of the strike on the economy were minimalised. The government had passed legislation ... ...

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