Video: How ex-miners burned and spat on Thatcher’s effigy
In scenes in stark contrast to the solemnity of the service at St Paul’s Cathedral, the open coffin carrying the effigy was paraded through the village on a horse and cart before being carried to a piece of waste ground near the high street and set alight.
There were loud cheers and shouts of “scab, scab, scab” as the fire took hold while a man dressed as the devil held up a plaque that read “the Devil has come for Thatcher the children’s milk snatcher”.
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Hide AdFormer miner Tony Hiles, who worked in the local pit and picketed throughout the 1984-5 miners’ strike, was among those watching.