Maybe worth watching I'll have a look cheers To be honest I've seen them all before, strikers story ,scabs story ,coppers story etc etc the cold facts are that pits closed without a thought or any help to the people or communities and we've had to endure this whilst Arguments rage on of who's to blame. The government at the time allowed this
I think it's always interesting when the strike is revisited every 10 years. To see how attitudes have changed, many haven't obviously. A lot of miners have finished their working lives now and some will have passed away, I find that interesting. It also has a different resonance with that **** Cameron currently in number 10.
It isn't telling us anything we didn't already know but it is still a very interesting programme all the same.
difference is that between now and,say the 25th anniversary,the thirty year papers have come out showing that that basterd thatcher and her crew lied and there was a hitlist,Scargills only crime was underestimating the sheer scale of it.
Yes but a strike when the government had built up massive coal reserves? Not holding a ballot and getting the Notts miners on board? The Orgreave ****-up? Alienating British public opinion with violence? He really couldn't have done a worse job.
the orgreave **** up?,it was created by the government,if you listened to russ broomhead on last nights programme you would have surely realised this,did you know the trouble started after the lorries had gone in?,must tell you something that? we used to go picketing and there was no violence,but rest assured you could come home and there would be footage from isolated incidents being used as if it was common place. we had had a ballot 18 months before which got us a pay rise and a mandate to strike on pit closures scargill did as his members instructed,he negotiated with the board and at one point(September if I remember rightly) reached an agreement with the ncb and thatcher scuppered it. notts would have still worked regardless,the government told them their pits were safe and they didn't give a toss about the rest of us,which given the rate the notts pits were closed after the strike was just as big a lie as the denial of scargills hitlist.dont forget the scabs formed a new union that was not recognised by the tuc and was funded by the government. when the 1993 closures were announced practically all the notts men interviewed said they should have joined the strike. if you think scargill was to blame for the strike you live in cloud cuckoo land and have swallowed the whole media campaign hook line and sinker.
Your right about the violence dek Was on the picket line at Annesley colliery on the day Davey Jones was killed, didn't know the lad but when I got in I heard about it on the news I was dumbstruck. We were pushed from pillow to post by the coppers and bricked by the local youths many wearing Notts Forrest merchandise etc and the police only gave us and not them grief if we complained about it but the news coverage told a totally different story .people like stitts have not got a clue what went on I know some of the pickets weren't angels but if and I stress if these documents are released people will start to realise the truth as to what thatchers gov't really did allow and collude in their quest to kill the trade union movement and take away the decentish working conditions they so valiantly fought for under tremendous pressure from the ruling classes. As a footnote I was stood with Russ and Wayne at orgreave just before the charge, luckily for us we had just gone back to the main push which was on the roadway.
