The Orgreave Obstacle

The Police are a key part of the public sector trade union family; they have the most old school trade union of the lot, due to the fact that officially it is not one.

Five years of Theresa May mean that there is probably not a Conservative voter left among them in the entire country.

They have absolutely no intention of enforcing any further anti-union laws.

But Orgreave, like Hillsborough, is a significant obstacle to their full, and urgently necessary, integration into the struggle. Hillsborough is being dealt with.

Precisely because all of the Officers involved will now be retired or dead, and perhaps in return for something like a commitment to legislate so that anyone convicted of the murder of a Police Officer would never be released while that conviction stood, there needs also to be a Hillsborough-style inquiry into Orgreave.

Who better to set that up than the man who set up the one into Hillsborough? Step forward, Andy Burnham.