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😢Ackton hall colliery Feathers tone west Yorkshire I was solid to the end 😊 solidarity forever

the line from cymer to bridgend closed in the seventies see the book lost lines western region and in the beeching report the same line to bridgend was marked has a sugetic line for investment

Bollocks. Dennis Healy and Roy Jenkins shut more pits than Maggie ever did

Cortonwood is in Yorkshire not scabland Nottingham 😂

That's not right. We all knew the NUM would have another go at the Tories and the Tories knew that too, it was very obvious. When Arthur Scargill took over from Joe Gormley the script was written and we all gave a half worried chuckle. Joe Gormley was an old fashioned Trade Unionist, the deal was the thing, and he got a good deal from Thatcher just before leaving. Scargill was a revolutionary, he wasn't interested in a deal he wanted to destroy the Thatcher Government just as the Heath Government has been destroyed. And never mind the damage to industry and wages that the 3 day week and the blackouts had caused. In short, who was the enemy of the miners? Scargill was his name.

Arthurs still got his num grace and favour flat in the barbican in london must be £2000 a month..

Inspirational ❤

Boo hoo hoo, you lost.

Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.

10:24 roger waters from pink Floyd wrote an album about billy and Johnny (i think thats their names) the boys who threw the brick at a taxi.

You can hear kierons voice lol. If that's definitely Mr gibbons lol.

My father worked in st John's in maesteg !!! then he got taken up to glyncorrwg after getting trapped and hurt by a rockfall under ground in st John's. I am a Baitup and my father was called "Mel Baitup" . He was young and was learning to be an explosives man till the collapse, it squashed his friend too . I wonder if any of you can remember that ??? He must've been down there in the 60 maybe . Wish I knew more about that era of his life . I also wish I could see where he worked back then because he said to me that it was the most scary and dangerous place he'd ever been to work. In south pit glyncorrwg he worked above ground in the offices and was the man who came around to see how much coal you've pulled out of the ground. If any of his friends had a bad week and didn't bring much up he'd lie and say they brought up more coal so their pay wasn't lessened .

all these guys still moaning 40 years later i have known combat vets who have been in intense combat that dont moan like these twats get over it you where beaten and thats is it stop crying about it

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The State is not your friend and should always be subject to criticism and scrutiny regardless of who is in ‘power’.

Let’s not forget lack of support from the TUC and the Labour Party class traitors busy ‘appealing to the middle classes’. At least I voted for Michael Foot in 1983 , my conscience is clear.

Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.

''Not very good coal !' - What nonsense ! Welsh Steam Coal mined in the Rhondda and Eastern valleys was exported worldwide fom Barry, Cardiff and Newport docks. It was used extensively by the Great Western Railway and was sought after as the best coal suited for locomotives and ships boilers. It burned efficiently, forming a homogenous mass of heat output yet with very low ash. 'Tredegar Coal' as it was called was once in worlwide demand such that many foreign navies felt disadvantaged without it.

There was no Ballot , which split the Union and severely damaged the Miners cause with the public. The Miners were fighting for their communities. But the Union leadership were using them to bring the Government down.

You need to pay that young lady more money so she can get some jeans with out holes in them !

Tidy

Judas sold Jesus for 30 Pieces of Silver. And Regretted it.

not just poland china scabbed also

Brave men who were attacked by British state for trying to save their jobs and communities

"Oh, and there we were all in one place A generation lost in space With no time left to start again" [ Don McLean ]

Scargill began a fight he could not win.

Cracking interview, what a lovely, eloquent man, his words take me back to those dark days as if they were yestrerday.

The Miners were fighting for their communities, Thatcher was fighting for the country, no contest.

This whole thing about Thatcher gunning for the miners is load of old bollocks that is still peddled now. Forget figureheads. This had been on the cards for years. Why do I know this? Dennis Healey told us on 30 Sep 1976: th-cam.com/video/RpKz54bxXuU/w-d-xo.html

Her final epitaph, she died not knowing if she wanted a piss or a shit

Scargill destroyed the NUM by starting a fight he could not win.

The strike was illegal.

Only people to come out on top was scargill a his cronies.he sold you down the road 😢

Unfortunately for the miners, Th****er had the perfect man in Scargill - she goaded him into the strikes & he wasn't clever enough to side step it. I'm not saying Scargill was an idiot, but his heart ruled his head & he should've handled it better. If you compare him to Mick Lynch, there is a world of difference in keeping your head. As a young lad in the Midlands, my Dad worked in Drakelow C Power Station & I could see it from the 7-8 miles away from my home. I remember the coal stocks well over the height of the cooling towers & mountains of coal wouldn't have been a bad description. I felt really bad for the miners (having grown up in an old mining village) & there was a lot of grief at the time, like _The Battle of Orgrieve_ & the injustices of Th****er's underhand secret policing. Even as a young kid, I admired the striking lads, I really did. As a nation, something was lost with the end of the strike & things went downhill from there. Th****er was an absolute cancer & plague on the country & it truly is a disaster that the miners didn't win the war. You & your families will be remembered for what you tried to do for yourselves, your communities & for the country.

Stalinist Scargill destroyed the NUM by starting a fight he could not win.

Who was it who dropped that concrete block that fell on a taxi, killing the driver? Oh yes, it was some miners.

3 governments taken down by miners strikes the three day week, rolling blackouts ,the winter of discontent. Going begging to the IMF for a bailout in 1976 , thatcher was elected on a union busting ticket she made no secret of it and the public voted for that after strikes had annoyed the public all through the 1970s. I voted for thatcher it was the first time I voted , put that down to what you did in the 1970s

" would have been better to go on strike in autumn " wow, just, wow....hold the general public to ransom just to get your way. 😮

Harold Wilson shut down far more pits than Margaret Thatcher did, yet Thatcher is the one that gets demonised? The truth is that in 1980s Britain, nobody wanted to buy the coal; industry didn't want the filthy stuff, power generators didn't want it and households didn't want it. Trying to keep the coal industry alive was an exercise in futility that was costing the country billions.

If Arthur Scargill had arranged a vote to call out a miners' national strike, he might have won, but he didn't have the guts, because he knew that the Nottingham miners would not back him. He led that unofficial strike, which was, in the end, his downfall. He deserved everything that led to his union's downfall, and to the industry. Thatcher played her hand when she knew that the power stations had plenty of coal, and Scargill reaped the bitter reward.

The Soviets corrupted the whole deal to hurt Britain.

I remember listening a TV interview of two miners at the time of the strikes. One was on strike and the other was not. They were both asked why they held their position. The striking miner said that he was fighting to ensure his son still had a job going down the pit. The non-striking miner said that he was not striking to ensure his kids had an education so that they never had to go down the pit. Regressive vs. progressive thinking. That was the turning point for me.

Of course she did ; she was no mug. Scargill was a Marxist menace. Britain's coal mines had been steadily shedding workers since the beginning of the 50s.

"Labour closed 236 coal mines in the 70s. For the good of the country!! Vote Labour!!! Thatcher closed 115 coal mines. This is Fascism!! Vote Labour!!!." This is pretty much the feeling of every British coal miner. Mindless leftist hypocrites. Labour closed 236 coal mines, they still voted labour, and when Thatcher closed half that amount, they yelled "Fascist" and whinge about it to this day.

The UK embraced socialism after WW2. Labour created the NHS and nationalised the Steel & Mining industry because they were not economically viable. The unions in these industries constantly striked for higher wages due to high inflation. Governments generally conceded to the wage demands. by 1976 the game was up.The UK was broke.The IMF gave the biggest loan ever (at that point) $3.9 billion. to the UK. 8 years later the Miners went on strike because they wanted the taxpayer to bail out uneconomic mines. the UK was still broke. Germany used the Marshall plan money to replace heavy industry with light industry making consumer goods. Britain used the marshall money for bailouts thus kicking the can down the road.When the cash ran out Maggie was in power. Port talbot is the final casualty of can kicking.

Thatcher was a special kind of evil and the torries still are

Thatcher was a special kind of evil, and the torries still are

Lefties lie their two faced heads off blaming Thatcher for "decimating the mining industry" and idiots believe them when it was labour who wrecked it.

Thatcher and her mate David Hart split the miners union