Professional wind up merchant. I've worked with a few in my time.Spouts a controversial line and then sits back smirking at the self righteous (and justified) indignation he arouses. He loves attention but will get no more from me. I will open no more of his posts.
On that score I'm like Maggie..........I like a good discussion and argument I'm not a wind up merchant.............I tell it how I see it.......... I make my own judements............which is difficult for a lot of folk on here because they tend to just follow who is shouting the loudest I lived through the 72 and 74 strikes as a kid......I had 12 months on strike as a striking miner in 84............and yet there are some on here that are telling me that as a kid they fully understand what it was like to be a striking miner. It isn't the same. After the strike I became an NUM branch official ( branch President) I saw and experienced what opportunities there were for kids in the 1970s and early 1980s (bricky, farming, pit).................. and I look at ALL the massive opportunities there is for kids today I remember having a discussion with a lecturer at Barnsley College in the late 1970s and saying to the lecturer 'it doesn't matter who wins a general election because they have to get the consent of the TUC to govern the country'. It was a crazy situation back then that some have so easily forgotten about. Nearly everything was nationalised and each of the trade unions was trying to out do the rest of the trade unions with their wage demands. Dog eat Dog tactics. All Maggie needed to do to shut the pits was put a notice up at each pit for volunteers for redundancies and offer each redundant miner a decent redundancy payment. The vast majority of miners I have spoken to hated working underground. To coincide with a 'steady' reduction in collieries; the government needed to look into how they could improve the infrastructure to attract new industry into the area. Remember this............it was years and years before large Lorries could start to get to some of the dis-used pit sites. People living at the bottom of Hough Lane at Wombwell will know what I'm on about here. FOR YEARS AND YEARS LARGE PARTS OF THE BARNSLEY DISTRICT WERE LAND LOCKED. So what Maggie did was RIGHT..........but how she went about it was totally WRONG
He like all of us has a valid opinion He is a larger than life character , the wimps on here cannot handle him
If you don't know for sure you shouldn't try to tell people you do otherwise you are open to critism. Otherwise whats the point. The point I make is simple why should people believe him when he can't get his points correct. Also mastermind s a quizz show not a forum
Without reverting back to snide play ground name calling..............which part of MY MEMORY did I actually get wrong ??? Wakeyred tomfun Marlon Jumper One or all of you lot make a list and then I'll consider if this is in fact what I witnessed with my own eyes and ears You can add your memories and opinions of that time if you please
The trade unions needed t do something to help their members wages were terrible back then its interesting that you take the bosses argument that we were striking just for the hell of it when in fact most ties the bosses were provoking these reactions which as a worker at that time you shoud know. I'd bet a pound to a penny you didn't have those views then or when you were an N U M official. Methinks your using the rewritten history drivel their spewing to make thatchers premiere ship look immaculate.
I thought most people were striking to defend jobs in that period , nothing to do with wages , but hey do not let me stop you re writing history
I don't care what your experience was. No interest whatsoever. What I do know is that some of the $hit you've come out with is really upsetting to some people. You clearly have no empathy towards other people's personal experiences.
You can remember it how you like, I remember growing up in a hard but friendly place, where there was a community spirit. I remember all that ending in 1984 and then like a slow motion car crash the whole place fell apart through my teenage years. Jobs were replaced with welfare, well kept council houses with drug dens and WMC' s with wasteland. You being a miner doesn't make your opinion of what Thatcher did more valid, it just makes you an uncle Tom.
You fekin interfering Pollock I was answering nudgers point on the 72 74 strikes keep thi fekin nose out I'm answering nudger who's a big boy and can answer himself as we ave done before in a proper manner he dunt need thee to keep piping up for him
