Calls for cooler heads over the miners’ strikeThe country is sliding swiftly from crisis to chaos. By this time next week,there is every chance that the mines of the Midlands will be closed by the pit deputies strike, that picket-line violence will escalate, or that the politics of Britain will be frozen in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between contestants unable to break each other’s will. whether President Mitterrand turns on the television news during his visit this week,he may even be reminded by the scenes at Grimethorpe and elsewhere of his own country’s événements of May 1968. British viewers need gawk no farther than Belfast for parallel scenes of youngsters throwing stones through police station windows.
It would be a marvellous thing, even at this late stage, or whether one could call for compromise and old-fashioned common sense,for the government to intervene to knock heads together.
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Source: theguardian.com