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Thatcher society (Council houses (Negative (sales were often in better off…

- - - - did not gain total support
        
        refused to hold strike ballot
        
        failed to overcome regional division ie the Nottingham branch UMD
        
        UMD called scabs by Scargill supporters
        
        UMD believed scargill too interested in hard left and not miners
      - Police
        
        new tactics and equipment
        
        Thatcher politicised the police and used them to defeat the miners not as general justice protectors
        
        Battle of Orgreave
      - Scargill himself
        
        too hard left and alienated moderates ie never got the support of the labour party
      - Failure
        
        last months of the strike there was gradual drifts back to work
        
        79 coal hired 200,000 by 90 it was 60,000 and falling
        
        Reduced the effect of unions with the membership dropping by 1/3 from 79-90
        
        British Airways and British Steel reorganised with lots of job losses , the unions had no power to intimidate any more
- - - - 1979 American missiles were stationed in Britain causing CND protests
      - 1981 Greenham ( outside of where the missiles were to be set up) Women set up a feminist and pacifist camp lasted 19 years
      - 1984 when missiles arrived there was a 70,000 human chain in protest
      - 1984 the women's camp was evicted and demolished but the women snuck back and rebuilt after dark
      - Camp not closed til 2000
    - - grew in 1980s due to disasters such as 1984 Bhopal gas leak in India and Chernobyl in 86.
      - 1985 the ozone hole was discovered caused by CFC's and acid rain
      - Green peace and friends of the earth grew in strength .
- - - - 200,000 attended
      - turned into a riot
      - 5000 injured
      - 300 arrests and likened to Bottle of Orgreave in 84 due to the politicisation of the police