All too often miners and indeed other trade unionists underestimate the economic strength they have.
The unionists also for their part want to minimise the potential for change not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now not in the past not in the future.