I know a lot of people do not like him because of his indifference, his own way, he's stubborn, he does some things that some people can not understand, and even some brutal.
Some, particularly in the Highlandsandislands, were certainly poor, evendestitute, and the clearances in the late 1840sandearly 1850s wereundeniablybrutaland often coercive.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the 1984-5 strike, the miners endured more than a year without pay, were vilified by parts of the London media and were the victim of some fairly unjust andevenbrutal tactics at the hands of the authorities.