New miners strike documentary

A new documentary about the miners strike is being shown on BBC2 next Sunday 18th at 9pm.

BBC News - Miners' strike: ‘We had to bury our baby in a stranger’s coffin’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68247718

"This is the story of 15 men and women and one life-changing year on the frontline of the most divisive conflict of a generation: the 1984 miners' strike.

This documentary tells the story of this year-long conflict by combining archive footage with deeply personal testimony from striking and working miners, their families and the police - with many speaking for the first time."

 

Wonder if the BBC will play the footage in reverse order again.

 

This is in reference to the riots at Orgreave for those who are miffed.
Hastily put together was the response Tony Ben received from the BBC later apologising for not portraying the fact as it happened.
How the PC got away from prosecution for beating that miner to a pulp is still engraved in my mind.

 

Not to mention the lies told in court for the lads facing a riot charge - admitted many times since. As far as I'm aware, there is no statute of limitations on perjury.

 

Is this a different one to the recent "battle for Britain" trilogy?

 

Yes, this is individual stories about people involved in the strike.

 

Yes this is a different take on it.
Result still the same.

 

If it's the incident I'm thinking of Bazza. His name is Russel B. And it was going to court. I don't know the outcome. I moved in 86. And lost contact with him. But remind me next time we meet. I'll tell thi what was said in wombwell station rd wmc where we regularly met. Sunday neets after the strike. Quite funny tbh.

 

Dave Roper the man who lost his baby in the miners strike is a good friend of mine he told me about this 4 years ago when I took Dave to see the Uskar Pit childs monument at Silkstone.
Dave is on YouTube every morning he goes under the name of Donkey Dave worth a look very interesting always ends with Waky Wakeee.

 

Dave is a top bloke

 

Would there still be some pits left if it wasn't for the strike?

 

There's enough coal , 6 foot seams from Doncaster to the East Coast .
It wasn't about costs ,even green issues.
They had prototyped clean coal technology at Grimethorpe.
The unions needed bashing and putting in their place.
Take on one of the largest which was the NUM.
What better way to incite them.
Shut a pit in South Yorkshire.
Cottonwood.
The rest is history.
The public need to know the truth .
Lies deception ,phones tapped.
Lads wrongfully arrested.

 

Probably not. The cost of extracting coal and paying miners a decent wage meant it was far cheaper to import than to mine our own.

And given the long-term damage to the local environment *and* the health of former miners, do we really want our friends and family to work down a pit?

 

No, Arthur Scargill told everyone that the bitch was going to obliterate the mining industry & it did just that.

 

I think that was one of the bitches first targets.

 

It always seemed extraordinary to me that the severe beating/assault handed out by the Police was minor and trivial compared to the amazing level of corruption undertaken and accepted by every single police officer who was ever involved in the strike. Breathtaking in terms of that level of corruption and the culture within every single police force involved in the strike..

 

The thing is though Scoff , imported coal is only cheap when you've got another source.
When you cut off your source you have no bargaining power and are at the mercy of the market. End of cheap imported coal.

 

The police were supported from the highest level. We saw that with Hillsborough when national newspapers and local news programs were broadcasting lies about the Liverpool fans. They had to come from at least the level of the Home Secretary and probably the Prime Minister - otherwise we'd have seen sackings, criminal charges and inquiries that didn't happen for another 20+ years.

 

Tell that to the Tories. Although, tbh many of the pits that were open would have closed anyway. Its 40 years since the strike and they'd have been emptied of extractable coal. Unfortunately, we'd probably also have a memorial somewhere to the lads that were killed/injured in a mining disaster somewhere close to us.

 

The SS and the Gestapo were supported from the highest level. That is never an excuse for an individual to disclaim responsibility for their own actions.