Red Flag

Seeing as we're being visited by some who are traitors to the working class, a rousing rendition of 'Red Flag' might be appropriate on Saturday.

The people’s flag is deepest red;
It shrouded oft our martyred dead,
And, ere their limbs grow stiff and cold,
Their heart’s blood dyed its every fold.

Then raise the scarlet standard high,
Within its shade we’ll live and die;
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We’ll keep the Red Flag flying here.

 

I like it

Traitors to the working class because they worked

 

RE: I like it

The working class stick together and fight. Something you obviously know nothing about.

 

So the miners of nottingham were upper class were they? nt

 

Barnsley fans struggle with new songs at the best of times...

nice song and most would only know the last line. The clubs needs an anthem.

 

RE: So the miners of nottingham were upper class were they? nt

No. Keep up. That's why they are traitors to the working class.

 

RE: Barnsley fans struggle with new songs at the best of times...

Surely they can get to grips with at least the last verse of a well known anthem!

 

get the **** over it

thanks.

 

RE: get the **** over it

If you or your dad was on strike for 12 months I will respect your opinion. Otherwise keep the **** out of it.

 

my dad was on strike throughout (dodworth colliery).
As much as i am glad he was (and I would have been too), I think it's a shame that folk who striked took their attention away from Thatcher and blamed a minority of miners from Notts.
Thatcher (and the gov at the time) must have loved it - not so much loved (some) Notts miners for striking, but loved the fact that people who did strike blamed them instead.

At the end of the day Thatcher was determined to close the pits - a petty minority who still worked had no bearing on the outcome.

 

I beg to differ. If the miners had all been out, united from day one, key workers in other industries would have also lent their support. The strike would have been won within a couple of months. In spite of it all the government were on the brink at several stages of the strike, especially when NACODS looked like joining in.

 

I wonder

how many of the visitorswill actually be &quot;traitors to the working class&quot;. </p>

I reckon they'll bring a crowd of IT consultants from Surrey who started supporting Nottm Forest in 1979 when they won the European cup. </p>

 

RE: I wonder

'Some', I seem to recall saying.

 

It's finally proven...

You are a bell end.

 

Of course they had a bearing on the outcome!

They continued to produce, meaning that the country did not start to run out of coal!

 

How long did it take you to come to that conclusion?

 

Three seconds

 

if less than 10% of the workforce is enough to ensure that we don't run out of coal, then what were the other 90% doing for the other 100 years?

Thatcher wanted to close the pits cos she believed it was cheaper to buy from abroad (like 99% of other things), so she didnt care about about few miners in notts pulling out 5 bags of coal per day - as she was prepared to shut em all down.
Of course it must make the miners angry when they were fighting for EVERYONES jobs, but you will never have 100% of any group share the same opinion.
To expect 100% strike is impossible. To get over 90% is an overwhelming success (for a strike rate).

 

The perceived lack of NUM unity because of the Notts scabs, was the reason used by some workers in other key industries for not lending their support.

 

RE: get the **** over it

ahh so it involved the whole community unless its a member of the commnitywith a differing opinion.Anyway theres a German lives down the street shallI pop down and make aroplane noises on his drive