Aided and abetted by the government of the day, who closed their eyes to the "anything goes policing" .
Of course there was plenty of wrongdoing on the miners side but, nobody should pretend that the police stuck to the rules.

So why post another perverted Daily Mail headline? You embarrassed by your party by any chance?

Embarassed by being correct, never. Labour ran the country to the pits of oblivion, but old people seem to have a hazy euphoric memory.

But that is the Sin Bin, socialism and every reason why the UK is trapped in the 50's.

Labour
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NHS
Implementation of Beveridge report
Human Rights Act
Scottish and Welsh devolution.
Minimum wage.
Racial Discrimination Act.
Legalisation of abortion.
Open University.
Health & Safety at Work Act.
Civil Partnership Act.
Reform of House of Lords.
London Mayor.

Conservatives
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Austerity
Cones Hotline.

The prime minister should only be decided from a general election, you vote for a political party and the winners leader becomes prime minister. I’d say that is electing a leader.

Boris Johnson has been selected by a small number of old rich men, this is not democracy. 699 out of every 700 people did not vote for Boris Johnson, he has no right to be PM and should call an election if he has any integrity (he doesn’t)

You mean like the Blair Brown succession?

He has got away with lies, cheating & untruths all his spoilt life, so not a chance will he have bothered to do his sums. Johnson broke rules on financial interests three times in less than a year. He blew millions on his Garden Bridge vanity project. He wasted £300,000 on illegal water cannon. His routemaster buses became saunas on wheels. At £325,000 a pop, they cost almost double a conventional double-decker & were scrapped. He called his £250k-a-year pocket money chicken feed.

Brown sold our gold at a record low in the market.
Blair took is into an illegal war.
Just because you are envious of Boris' family, upbringing, education, ability and opportunity.

He is Prime Minister, deal with it. What have you achieved in your life?

I am not in the slightest envious of monied opportunity. If Johnson is what that produces it ought to be illegal. I am very pleased & proud with what I have produced & achieved, which has all been through hard work, honesty & collaboration.
There's only one person on here who is envious of his lords & masters, & does there fagging.

You are funny, you should do a stage tour, there must be at least 14 working mens clubs with outdated views like your good self.

Indeed. Here's your man Boris Johnson on Gordon Brown's succession:

“It’s the arrogance. It’s the contempt. That’s what gets me. It’s Gordon Brown’s apparent belief that he can just trample on the democratic will of the British people. It’s at moments like this that I think the political world has gone mad, and I am alone in detecting the gigantic fraud.”

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“They voted for Anthony Charles Lynton Blair to serve as their leader. They were at no stage invited to vote on whether Gordon Brown should be PM… They voted for Tony, and yet they now get Gordon, and a transition about as democratically proper as the transition from Claudius to Nero. It is a scandal. Why are we all conniving in this stitch-up? This is nothing less than a palace coup… with North Korean servility, the Labour Party has handed power over to the brooding Scottish power-maniac.”

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“The extraordinary thing is that it looks as though he will now be in 10 Downing Street for three years, and without a mandate from the British people. No one elected Gordon Brown as Prime Minister…”

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“Gordon Brown could appease public indignation over that, and secure the democratic mandate he needs, by asking the public to vote at once on him, on the new EU treaty, and on the implications of the devolutionary settlement. Let’s have an election without delay.”

It's a delicious irony of attempts to rehabilitate the odious Boris Johnson, that in a long career as a shock-jock columnist, with a firm belief in his own comedic genius, pretty much all of his rancid opinions went to press, so he can never escape from them.