Scargill? You do realise that Scargill's later turned up a Stalin apologist, right?
http://www.newstatesman.com/200206100016
I don't blame Thatcher for standing against someone like him.
For the miners, as I've said, coal-mining in the UK had become very expensive when it was simply cheaper to buy coal abroad.
Look, I realise Thatcher's hardly a fluffy sentimental character, but to pose her as some evil twisted lunatic who wanted to destroy communities purely for the fun of it is ludicrous. Do you honestly believe that had she thought she could avert the damage she wouldn't have? Really?
As for the rather melodramatic 'dictator' attack. Thatcher won three elections fair and square. You can make as many claims as you like for this but she still got three victories. Callaghan? He stood for one election. And lost.