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In the referenced article, (James A. Donald) writes:

>To this day, many people are extraordinarily bitter and outraged that
>Margaret Thatcher chose to enforce some quite ordinary laws against
>assault when a union boss proceeded to intimidate those union members
>that had voted in a politically incorrect fashion. They feel that it
>was quite extraordinary to protect union members from being beaten up
>by union goons coming in from far away places - and of course they
>are right. It was quite extraordinary.

Assuming you mean the miners' strike, people are outraged because the
state used the police, the secret services and the armed forces to
destroy an industry because they didn't like its union and because,
after the strike, the state used similar methods to plant smear
stories claiming that that union was in league with Ghadaffi (when in
fact Ghaddafi had supported the Thatcher government).
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