East Ayrshire Council, said that even the best part of four decades on from the Miners’ Strike, the communities still feel the pain that saw New Cumnock reduced to a shell of its former glory.So the Prime Minister's quip to Scottish journalists that ‘thanks to Margaret Thatcher, who closed so many coal mines across the country, we had a big early start and we're now moving rapidly away from coal altogether’, was met with real anger.Cllr McMahon, who was one of many who took part in and was arrested on the picket lines in 1984, said: “The contempt that he has treated the coal mining communities is beyond me.”“I despised Margaret Thatcher and everything she stood for.
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