The coal vs plutonium bit was pure class

@nialloneill5097

2 ай бұрын

Like it...or lump it...or eat it...classic

Arthur Scargill is now age 84 and like me remembers starting school at age 4 because I am age 85 but my brother was born in 1938 the same year as Arthur Scargill so what care do the miners get now they are elderly because many people pass away before they are age 80 but many would live longer with a quality carer and not passing away because they are lonely and lose the will to live.

@nigelkent-ux7ye

Жыл бұрын

Loads of the old fellas died after retirement from the pits people dont understand the sense of community and comradeship

@nialloneill5097

2 ай бұрын

Each group was like an individual soul...love bound them together...down or out of the pit...after going there after being at school together with...with both neighbours and family, indeed, it was like one big family in those mining villages...what care, strength, love and great food...

@nialloneill5097

2 ай бұрын

@@nigelkent-ux7ye Too many folk have been isolated with the modern system of capitalism...the fact we are here to mix, integrate and love...well, how can you do that if you do not have accessibility to such communities...and you do not have work...communal work, with communal showers, communal canteens...communal clubs and trips...and so on. Without such...no-one can live according to the words of Jesus Christ...love thy neighbour as thyself...for whether you are spiritual, religious or not, no-one can deny the beauty and happiness in such places, despite the deaths, hardships, and poverty

there should be a pit head not 1/4 mile walk from where i live, however it was a 56mile drive yesterday to photograph one of the last :(

I remember a photo of Arthur on the front of the Sun newspaper parking his brand new Jag in a pub carpark & getting into a tatty Cortina to drive to the pickets during the strike ...

@jamiejosh96

3 жыл бұрын

Typical communist then, some are more equal then others

@grahamjohn678

2 жыл бұрын

Bloody Communists. Coming over here. Taking our jobs. Should go back to their own country.

@Roscoe.P.Coldchain

Жыл бұрын

The sun 😂 must be true then 😂👍

@adamgrimsley2900

Жыл бұрын

Thats him.

@nigelkent-ux7ye

Жыл бұрын

We're are you from Nottingham

I'm a miner's son. My grandfather had a phone in his home and other miner's would use it and the phone would make strange noise half a second of lifting the receiver? Was it tapped? Id love to know if anyone has a similar story

@nialloneill5097

2 ай бұрын

No...but I heard they were tapping phonelines. My cousin and his mates were at Orgreave...they said it was a set-up...I saw them the day after in the gym where we worked out. The amt of police activity in the Strike extended way beyond the normal bobby on the beat...I look forward to researching it...and maybe writing about it. As Scargill said, the victory was ours, for we made a stand for goodness and justice and truth...things you can take with you after you leave this crumbling body...for the spirit lives on...as do its experiences and virtues...never wilt in the face of the scum that serves the establishment...

@tristanmorgan852

2 ай бұрын

@nialloneill5097 it would be interesting if you did a subject acces request. I don't think they would actually tell you but it might be worth trying

Absolute hero! one of the finest men this country has ever produced.

@nigelkent-ux7ye

Жыл бұрын

True

@KKTR3

Жыл бұрын

Why?

@MarkHarrison733

11 ай бұрын

He destroyed the NUM.

@MarkHarrison733

5 ай бұрын

@@eightiesmusic1984 He should have ended the illegal strike in late 1984 when it became clear the miners had lost.

@_Ben4810

4 ай бұрын

A failed & justifiably defeated communist who went cap in hand to terrorism funders for his own deluded campaign...🙄

working men and women are in struggle and want to be lifted, wise words, true then true now.

@nialloneill5097

2 ай бұрын

More so now...for many have no job, union or community to care and speak for them...

That’s one thing, I agree with Scargill about, we should’ve never stopped, uk produced coal generated electricity

@nialloneill5097

2 ай бұрын

I was up for it...unsure whether we would have won, but I was prepared for 3 yrs at least...

A man of great principle and integrity. Love him or hate him, I'm sure you'd want him by your side in the trenches.

@Roscoe.P.Coldchain

Жыл бұрын

No, he would be pinching all the sandwiches lol

@adamgrimsley2900

Жыл бұрын

He was only in it for himself

@adamgrimsley2900

5 ай бұрын

@@eightiesmusic1984 powerful argument

@_Ben4810

4 ай бұрын

But the labour force digging those trenches went on strike demanding their industry should remain preserved as it was forever for the sake of their brotherhood of trench diggers & safeguarding their communities...🙄

@nialloneill5097

2 ай бұрын

@@_Ben4810 It was the benefit of the nation...hence, since then...we have fallen into many forms of lawlessness, corruption and poverty and inequality...there is no conscience any longer without those pits...that drove the nation and commonwealth forward...god save the miners! Hip hip...hooray!

Why is there a 'ring modulator' type sound effects on the audio?

Made in Britain...

RESPECT to a man that shaped my life and oppinion

Great man and champion of the working man ..

@davidkeenan5642

2 жыл бұрын

He hurt working men far more than he helped them.

@julianlyons711

2 жыл бұрын

So remind me who shut all the pits devastated communities … brought in zero hours contracts much of the workforce , no work place representation , and advocated for a de skilled alienated workforce that have no rights other than to work for minimum wage and be grateful for crumbs from the masters table .. and i would rather trust him with my future and welfare than the robber barons that seek to squeeze the working men and women of this country.. but you have your opinion and i have mine

@nigelkent-ux7ye

Жыл бұрын

@@davidkeenan5642 you from Nottingham

@davidkeenan5642

Жыл бұрын

@@nigelkent-ux7ye Nice try, but no. I'm from Kent, home of one of the most militant unions in the country.

@nigelkent-ux7ye

Жыл бұрын

Yea then you must have gone back to work then

the strike made us hard bastards after the first month I didn't give a toss about any policeman and I gave as good as I got the tactics they used on us it was fair game as for as I and many of mates thought .

Scargill started a fight he could not win.

@stevenperren1678

2 ай бұрын

What’s more, he knew he couldn’t win.

@nialloneill5097

2 ай бұрын

He didn't start it...the govt and NCB held all the aces...unless NACODS had come out, and they voted 80% to do so in a national ballot...but like many red indian tribes, they were appeased through lies from govt officials...BIG MISTAKE!

Coal mining would have ended anyway due to the Climate Change Act.

Arthur Scargill Great hero of the working class!!

Arthur Scargill was a serious leader of a british union. He figth with the miners in 1984 against the bitch thatcher. But the rest of the unions not understand the main reason of the important fight and leave scargill and the miners alone. (Sorry about my bad english, but i am a german worker)

@jimusgrimus

5 жыл бұрын

They understand it now

@grahamjohn678

2 жыл бұрын

Solidarity to you Michael

It's people like this lad and other rabble rousers like him who were part of the reason for me leaving England back then and I've never been back. Thank goodness for Mrs Thatcher is what I say.

@Roscoe.P.Coldchain

Жыл бұрын

We are the best country in the world with or without you here

@Roscoe.P.Coldchain

Жыл бұрын

Where did you run to..?

@nigelkent-ux7ye

Жыл бұрын

Dont come back we dont want you

@nialloneill5097

2 ай бұрын

So Pleased...you left...could you not have taken Thatcher and all the other criminal crooks and liars with you...before they decimated not just the mining industry...but the whole nation...

working class hero

@_Ben4810

4 ай бұрын

He failed his members badly...He was so short-sighted about an industry he was supposedly an expert on...

He was pretty awful

He fought for miners' rights, high wages, better conditions. All of which crippled the industry. That is what socialism does.

@GEricG

6 жыл бұрын

Ok, high wages, that's subjective but do you seriously think that good working conditions and working rights are a bad thing? Really?

@GEricG

6 жыл бұрын

JCBAirmaster73 agreed. It was all about destroying the union.

@luke2328

5 жыл бұрын

Chicken, what a fool you have no historical perspective on what unions achieved in the U.K., without unions you would have Dickensian conditions lasting 50 more years than they did and perpetual war between ruling classes of european nations. the stupid thing is it is almost certain your forefathers benefitted over one hundred years ago because of the union movement. Imbecile!

@andy654shaz

4 жыл бұрын

Better to stand up and fight sooner or later the working man will have to start fighting all over again

@jrgboy

3 жыл бұрын

He took the NUM to court cos they refused to honour his agreement made in the 70's, there were less than 2000 members in the end , he lost of course