Oh aye, everything's brilliant since the pits shut. ****. </p>http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire...strike_bernard_ingham_interview_feature.shtml
Did you see him on Look North? "Scargill had a private army" - so Thatcher didn't then? "what we need is a balanced energy policy, and coal could play a part in that" - WTF - your lot destroyed the industry! It's a wonder my TV is still intact!
A private army? Armed with deadly sticks and stones. Why is the moron given airtime? He is never going to admit the woman he put in his **** bank for years was wrong and in fact was the devil incarnate here on earth
Merely confirms that Thatcher planned to take the miners on. The evil old bitch.</p> Scargill fell for it.</p> </p>
No Can't fcking abide the bloke. The epitome of the old guard arrogant Tory b'stards. His comment about labour being more mobile cos everyone now has to travel long distances to find work - that's an achievement ? Fcking ****.
I meant Scargill! You can call him many things but surely not a Tory?! As for Ingham he's a disgrace to Yorkshire. Mind, he's not from proper Yorkshire though is he? It's almost a good an explanation as one I once heard from some other Tory *****, I think it was Hamiliton and his bint, saying how great the 80's were as they "got rid of all the Socialists" and "saved the envirnoment" by closing the pits!
'saved the environment' By building 'link roads ' that link fck all and industrial estates that remain empty on green belt land whilst trying to turn colliery sites 'green'. Fcking backwards thinking ***** - and that includes councils like Barnsley who've pissed European money away on such schemes.</p> Take away well paid, permanent jobs and then put the rersponsibility on councils to provide employment in modern day sweat shops on nowt a yard temporary contracts. Burn in hell you old ****.</p> No, not much time for Scargill as it happens. He was right - they wanted to decimate the coal industry, but he was their biggest ally in it all. Also no time for the NUM during the strike - remember when me Dad got a food parcel intended for an NUM official - not just tins of beans in that fcker. </p>
That's right... The local councils have followed central government doctrine and indeed European doctrine. We are a long way down the road from a certain D Blunkett having the Red Flag hoisted above Sheffield Town Hall! This has led to large empty buildings in the manin, that have been financed with public money. Whilst this created a short spurt in construction jobs nothing has been built to last, and like you say, we have replaced solid permanent jobs with "a mobile, flexible workforce". I.E. one that will drive miles for relative peanuts and won't think about collectivising. His article was saying that a deal was agreed five times on the miners terms with T.watcher, only to be withdrawn. The final agreement was withdrawn after NACODS mysteriously accepted a structured closure programme. This effectively killed the strike.
Correct... And as Scargill said, "only the NACODS leadership know why they changed their minds". As someone else once said "there's a story to be told".
