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  @longjohn4416Ай бұрын

  Cortonwood is in Yorkshire not scabland Nottingham 😂

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  @briankeniry219Ай бұрын

  That's not right. We all knew the NUM would have another go at the Tories and the Tories knew that too, it was very obvious. When Arthur Scargill took over from Joe Gormley the script was written and we all gave a half worried chuckle. Joe Gormley was an old fashioned Trade Unionist, the deal was the thing, and he got a good deal from Thatcher just before leaving. Scargill was a revolutionary, he wasn't interested in a deal he wanted to destroy the Thatcher Government just as the Heath Government has been destroyed. And never mind the damage to industry and wages that the 3 day week and the blackouts had caused. In short, who was the enemy of the miners? Scargill was his name.

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  @garywheeley5108Ай бұрын

  Arthurs still got his num grace and favour flat in the barbican in london must be £2000 a month..

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  @bernadettedevine30852 ай бұрын

  Inspirational ❤

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  @MarkHarrison7332 ай бұрын

  Boo hoo hoo, you lost.

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  @MarkHarrison7332 ай бұрын

  Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.

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  @lordsofafan3722 ай бұрын

  10:24 roger waters from pink Floyd wrote an album about billy and Johnny (i think thats their names) the boys who threw the brick at a taxi.

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  @MarkHarrison7332 ай бұрын

  Waters is a lifelong anti-Semite, like Scargill.

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  @lordsofafan3722 ай бұрын

  You can hear kierons voice lol. If that's definitely Mr gibbons lol.

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  @lordsofafan3722 ай бұрын

  My father worked in st John's in maesteg !!! then he got taken up to glyncorrwg after getting trapped and hurt by a rockfall under ground in st John's. I am a Baitup and my father was called "Mel Baitup" . He was young and was learning to be an explosives man till the collapse, it squashed his friend too . I wonder if any of you can remember that ??? He must've been down there in the 60 maybe . Wish I knew more about that era of his life . I also wish I could see where he worked back then because he said to me that it was the most scary and dangerous place he'd ever been to work. In south pit glyncorrwg he worked above ground in the offices and was the man who came around to see how much coal you've pulled out of the ground. If any of his friends had a bad week and didn't bring much up he'd lie and say they brought up more coal so their pay wasn't lessened .

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  @dingopisscreek3 ай бұрын

  The miners were fighting to save their jobs, their industry and their communities. Unfortunately, their leader, Arthur Scargill wasn't. HE was fighting to bring down the Thatcher government - and the miners couldn't see that. They followed him like lemmings over the cliff edge. KING ARTHUR? Do me a favour!!!

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  @dingopisscreek3 ай бұрын

  Yes, the miners were fighting for their industry & their communities. Unfortunately that is not what Arthur Scargill was fighting for - he was fighting to bring down the Thatcher government, just as they Heath government had been brought down before. It is unfortunate that the miners were led by such an arrogant self-serving man as Scargill. A better leader of the miners, FOR the miners might have achieved a better outcome. Thatcher was well prepared for the strike - the stockpiles of coal at the power stations had been built up to an all time high. Scargill walked right into her trap. 80% of the country's miners were on strike - If Scargill had called a national ballot the result would have been a majority for a strike and ALL coalfields would have stopped working - the arrogance of Scargill made him think he was above having a ballot. As Neil Kinnock said - "Thatcher and Scargill deserved each other - the miners didn't".

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  @philliplewis-pm1ln3 ай бұрын

  all these guys still moaning 40 years later i have known combat vets who have been in intense combat that dont moan like these twats get over it you where beaten and thats is it stop crying about it

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  @Thrillwit3 ай бұрын

  kzread.info/dash/bejne/eot919d6kazbm7w.html

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  @Thrillwit3 ай бұрын

  Here’s to the British MINERS: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eot919d6kazbm7w.html

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  @aslc25473 ай бұрын

  The State is not your friend and should always be subject to criticism and scrutiny regardless of who is in ‘power’.

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  @aslc25473 ай бұрын

  Let’s not forget lack of support from the TUC and the Labour Party class traitors busy ‘appealing to the middle classes’. At least I voted for Michael Foot in 1983 , my conscience is clear.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw3 ай бұрын

  Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.

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  @rosshoward63273 ай бұрын

  ''Not very good coal !' - What nonsense ! Welsh Steam Coal mined in the Rhondda and Eastern valleys was exported worldwide fom Barry, Cardiff and Newport docks. It was used extensively by the Great Western Railway and was sought after as the best coal suited for locomotives and ships boilers. It burned efficiently, forming a homogenous mass of heat output yet with very low ash. 'Tredegar Coal' as it was called was once in worlwide demand such that many foreign navies felt disadvantaged without it.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw3 ай бұрын

  It was too pollutive and difficult to extract by the 1970s.

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  @jackthegamer40193 ай бұрын

  There was no Ballot , which split the Union and severely damaged the Miners cause with the public. The Miners were fighting for their communities. But the Union leadership were using them to bring the Government down.

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  @welshhibby3 ай бұрын

  You need to pay that young lady more money so she can get some jeans with out holes in them !

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  @welshhibby3 ай бұрын

  Tidy

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  @darrenfarrell-bn2cb3 ай бұрын

  Judas sold Jesus for 30 Pieces of Silver. And Regretted it.

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  @bobmcgahey12803 ай бұрын

  not just poland china scabbed also

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw3 ай бұрын

  Poland hated Communism. Scargill was a Stalinist anti-Semite.

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  @GibbonsTalksBoxing3 ай бұрын

  Brave men who were attacked by British state for trying to save their jobs and communities

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw3 ай бұрын

  They were trying to bring down the elected government.

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  @lochnessmunster11892 ай бұрын

  No. There is no need for anyone on strike, to attend their workplace, in order to strike. You can stay at home, watch TV, and STILL strike. Why did these strikers attend their workplace?

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  @yorkshiremgtow1773Ай бұрын

  You don't need to go to your workplace, to strike. You don't know what you're talking about, Gibbons.

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  @neilthomas92443 ай бұрын

  "Oh, and there we were all in one place A generation lost in space With no time left to start again" [ Don McLean ]

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw3 ай бұрын

  Scargill began a fight he could not win.

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  @jimscarlet3 ай бұрын

  Cracking interview, what a lovely, eloquent man, his words take me back to those dark days as if they were yestrerday.

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  @heartofoak453 ай бұрын

  The Miners were fighting for their communities, Thatcher was fighting for the country, no contest.

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  @GibbonsTalksBoxing3 ай бұрын

  Thatcher was fighting for a certain demographic of the country and was happy to leave the rest rot away. These mining communities are still suffering all the years later .

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw3 ай бұрын

  @@GibbonsTalksBoxing Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.

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  @nialloneill5097Ай бұрын

  @@GibbonsTalksBoxing And the nation as a whole...she was an whore of greed and lies.

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  @andyt3304Ай бұрын

  @@JamesRichards-mj9kw The power station 2 miles from me still runs on coal. Imported coal, while there's years worth still under my feet.

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  @happyuk064 ай бұрын

  This whole thing about Thatcher gunning for the miners is load of old bollocks that is still peddled now. Forget figureheads. This had been on the cards for years. Why do I know this? Dennis Healey told us on 30 Sep 1976: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hKR_3Jdtktu-pbg.html

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  @ianlaurenson47294 ай бұрын

  Her final epitaph, she died not knowing if she wanted a piss or a shit

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw3 ай бұрын

  Scargill now has dementia.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw4 ай бұрын

  Scargill destroyed the NUM by starting a fight he could not win.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw4 ай бұрын

  The strike was illegal.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw4 ай бұрын

  @@MC-io7ru The strike was ruled illegal as no ballot was held.

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  @bobmcgahey12803 ай бұрын

  stuff it

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  @phillipward27414 ай бұрын

  Only people to come out on top was scargill a his cronies.he sold you down the road 😢

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  @bobmcgahey12803 ай бұрын

  fy mother

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  @dingopisscreek3 ай бұрын

  Scargill was on a crusade to bring down Thatcher - the miner's needs came a poor second.

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  @old_seadog4 ай бұрын

  Unfortunately for the miners, Th****er had the perfect man in Scargill - she goaded him into the strikes & he wasn't clever enough to side step it. I'm not saying Scargill was an idiot, but his heart ruled his head & he should've handled it better. If you compare him to Mick Lynch, there is a world of difference in keeping your head. As a young lad in the Midlands, my Dad worked in Drakelow C Power Station & I could see it from the 7-8 miles away from my home. I remember the coal stocks well over the height of the cooling towers & mountains of coal wouldn't have been a bad description. I felt really bad for the miners (having grown up in an old mining village) & there was a lot of grief at the time, like _The Battle of Orgrieve_ & the injustices of Th****er's underhand secret policing. Even as a young kid, I admired the striking lads, I really did. As a nation, something was lost with the end of the strike & things went downhill from there. Th****er was an absolute cancer & plague on the country & it truly is a disaster that the miners didn't win the war. You & your families will be remembered for what you tried to do for yourselves, your communities & for the country.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw4 ай бұрын

  Lynch and Scargill are both major Brexiteers.

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  @old_seadog4 ай бұрын

  @@JamesRichards-mj9kwWell, you can't have everything.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw4 ай бұрын

  @@old_seadog Labour caused Brexit.

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  @old_seadog4 ай бұрын

  @@JamesRichards-mj9kwReally. Didn't know Farage, Tice, Cameron, _The Lying Clown_ et al were members. Not sure why you're wasting my time with this though, I didn't say anything about the biggest own goal in history.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw4 ай бұрын

  @@old_seadog Labour's one-sided devolution broke up the UK, and caused Brexit. If the autistic Brown had not reneged to Labour's manifesto promise to hold a referendum we would still be in the right-wing Thatcherite EU.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw4 ай бұрын

  Stalinist Scargill destroyed the NUM by starting a fight he could not win.

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  @EdMcF14 ай бұрын

  Who was it who dropped that concrete block that fell on a taxi, killing the driver? Oh yes, it was some miners.

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  @bearsagainstevil4 ай бұрын

  3 governments taken down by miners strikes the three day week, rolling blackouts ,the winter of discontent. Going begging to the IMF for a bailout in 1976 , thatcher was elected on a union busting ticket she made no secret of it and the public voted for that after strikes had annoyed the public all through the 1970s. I voted for thatcher it was the first time I voted , put that down to what you did in the 1970s

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  @davidgaskin54174 ай бұрын

  " would have been better to go on strike in autumn " wow, just, wow....hold the general public to ransom just to get your way. 😮

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  @user-ki8tz2on7t4 ай бұрын

  Harold Wilson shut down far more pits than Margaret Thatcher did, yet Thatcher is the one that gets demonised? The truth is that in 1980s Britain, nobody wanted to buy the coal; industry didn't want the filthy stuff, power generators didn't want it and households didn't want it. Trying to keep the coal industry alive was an exercise in futility that was costing the country billions.

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  @Grandpa6004 ай бұрын

  If Arthur Scargill had arranged a vote to call out a miners' national strike, he might have won, but he didn't have the guts, because he knew that the Nottingham miners would not back him. He led that unofficial strike, which was, in the end, his downfall. He deserved everything that led to his union's downfall, and to the industry. Thatcher played her hand when she knew that the power stations had plenty of coal, and Scargill reaped the bitter reward.

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  @Propelled4 ай бұрын

  The Soviets corrupted the whole deal to hurt Britain.

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  @peterb22724 ай бұрын

  I remember listening a TV interview of two miners at the time of the strikes. One was on strike and the other was not. They were both asked why they held their position. The striking miner said that he was fighting to ensure his son still had a job going down the pit. The non-striking miner said that he was not striking to ensure his kids had an education so that they never had to go down the pit. Regressive vs. progressive thinking. That was the turning point for me.

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  @spanishpeaches29304 ай бұрын

  Of course she did ; she was no mug. Scargill was a Marxist menace. Britain's coal mines had been steadily shedding workers since the beginning of the 50s.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw4 ай бұрын

  Since 1910.

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  @rileykaiseeker42944 ай бұрын

  "Labour closed 236 coal mines in the 70s. For the good of the country!! Vote Labour!!! Thatcher closed 115 coal mines. This is Fascism!! Vote Labour!!!." This is pretty much the feeling of every British coal miner. Mindless leftist hypocrites. Labour closed 236 coal mines, they still voted labour, and when Thatcher closed half that amount, they yelled "Fascist" and whinge about it to this day.

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  @lawLess-fs1qx4 ай бұрын

  The UK embraced socialism after WW2. Labour created the NHS and nationalised the Steel & Mining industry because they were not economically viable. The unions in these industries constantly striked for higher wages due to high inflation. Governments generally conceded to the wage demands. by 1976 the game was up.The UK was broke.The IMF gave the biggest loan ever (at that point) $3.9 billion. to the UK. 8 years later the Miners went on strike because they wanted the taxpayer to bail out uneconomic mines. the UK was still broke. Germany used the Marshall plan money to replace heavy industry with light industry making consumer goods. Britain used the marshall money for bailouts thus kicking the can down the road.When the cash ran out Maggie was in power. Port talbot is the final casualty of can kicking.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw4 ай бұрын

  Marshall Aid created the NHS. The Attlee government began the privatisation of the NHS.

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw4 ай бұрын

  Port Talbot is closing due to net zero.

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  @gregsutton62584 ай бұрын

  Thatcher was a special kind of evil and the torries still are

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  @zenzombie724 ай бұрын

  In her defense, she was way ahead of her time in terms of ending the use of fossil fuels. And she made the economy recognisable from the mess that was the 1970s. And she put a lot of Tory elites in their place.

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  @peterb22724 ай бұрын

  "Tories" 🙄

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  @joncumberbatch8524 ай бұрын

  ​@@zenzombie72she was a asset stripper that deregulated the banks while maintaining Keynesianism for the wealthy... But now with nothing remaining what comes next?

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  @touringmoose4 ай бұрын

  @@zenzombie72 She got rid of the British Coal industry and imported our coal from Russia and apartheid South Africa instead. At the time it wasn't allowed to use gas to generate electricity and the Tory government of the day changed that and allowed all the newly privatised energy companies to plow through our gas to make electricity. Google "The dash for gas". It wasn't till much later that renewables started to make a difference in our energy production. So we moved basically from coal fossil fuel to gas fossil fuel. As I write this, we are importing 42% of our energy needs through imported gas (16.6%) and interconnection to six European countries (26%). Tonight is a good night for wind at nearly 40%.

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  @paulnutter17134 ай бұрын

  And look who they've had since and what's happened to Britain

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  @gregsutton62584 ай бұрын

  Thatcher was a special kind of evil, and the torries still are

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  @lochnessmunster11892 ай бұрын

  I imagine you have very little understanding of economics. Let's say that the mines had never been nationalised. What power would Mrs Thatcher, or the Labour governments before her who closed more mines than her, have in closing coal mines?

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  @wotdoesthisbuttondo4 ай бұрын

  Lefties lie their two faced heads off blaming Thatcher for "decimating the mining industry" and idiots believe them when it was labour who wrecked it.

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  @lolorick58854 ай бұрын

  Thatcher and her mate David Hart split the miners union

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  @JamesRichards-mj9kw4 ай бұрын

  Scargill refused to allow a national ballot.

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  @colinjennings36614 ай бұрын

  For the miner to say nothing happened in South Wales such as throwing stones. A taxi driver was murdered by two miners in Merthyr who threw a rock through his car windscreen when he was taking a working miner to work.

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  @dingopisscreek3 ай бұрын

  I remember - and Scargill refused to condemn the killers. THAT tells you all about the man. Means to an end.

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  @garywheeley5108Ай бұрын

  An add to that the taxi driver ha d just ripped out his mother's kitchen and all she had was a cold tap on the walll he was taking the next week off to put a new kitchen in for her often wonder what happened she was about 75 .....the concrete block hit the driver in the chest the 2 miners got 6 years for manslaughter...