Shockingly, the cabinet papers also show that the Tories were willing to go as
far as declaring a state of emergency and deploying the Army in order to
gain victory over the striking miners and the unions —
confirmation that it was a central tenet of government policy to regard tax - paying, law - abiding colliery workers, locked in struggle to defend their jobs and their way of life, as (to use that awful phrase of Margaret Thatcher's) «the enemy within».
The region continues to show year - over-year price
gains of 8.9 %, however the slight cooling of short term price performance is
far from
confirmation that the metro's progress has subsided.