Scargill's warning
Sir: 'As bad as each other'? Charles Moore (Politics, 21 April) appears to distinguish Mrs Thatcher from Mr Scargill because she said she intended to abolish the GLC and the metropolitan counties.
But Mr Scargill's. intentions and objectives have been just as plainly expressed. His first presidential address to the NUM annual conference in July 1982 included his call 'to make opposition to pit closures its [i.e. the Conference's] central task' (his italics). He went on to say they had to 'create a campaigning union' (again his italics). In his peroration he declared: 'British miners will take industrial action whenever they consider it necessary — we will use whatever methods are considered appropriate — we do not and will not [again his italics] recognise distinctions between forms of picketing'.
She — you — all of us had been warned.
Wilfrid Miron
Briar Croft, School Lane, Halam, Newark, Nottinghamshire
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