Selby Coalfield

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Energy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 December 1984.

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Photo of Mr David Hunt Mr David Hunt , Wirral West 12:00, 17 December 1984

The solution to this dispute lay with a ballot held at the start of the dispute, in accordance with the long-established, democratic tradition of the NUM. If a ballot had been held, there would have been no need for these mass pickets, intimidation and violence. Not one miner would have gone to work. The sad fact is that the only way to end this dispute is for miners to vote with their feet and return to work.