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You have to admit Blue it does seem to be the case.

must have been scary seeing this lot come round the corner

ooooo memories!! I had an old Post Office Morris Minor van...

It has nothing to do with what they did for a living,I think most people accepted that the miners had a horrific profession, and to start with they had the public's support. I remember clearly people giving generously to people collecting food outside supermarkets.



Once again read the thread.



So the mining industry never brought down a Government because of their strike actions? The miners were so powerful that they thought they could do as they pleased.The mining industry was losing money hand over fist, their strikes were what brought down the industry. It was Thatchers decision to take them on that was their downfall.



Not done for effect at all,that always seems to be your same old argument. The death of the industry was brought about by itself, mainly because of Scargills obsession with hating Thatcher.

It was certainly no tragedy, not for the public to be held to ransom by a union too big for it's own boots constantly. They intimidated it's members into striking and staying out on strike, and you are obviously not old enough to remember the flying pickets sent up and down the land to intimidate those with violence if they went back to work.

The laws today mean that the flying pickets and the " everybody out " shouts,cannot happen anymore at the drop of a hat. No more closed shops where jobs were only offered if you was in that union, failure to be a member meant you had no chance of joining that firm.

Good ideals so I suppose some good things came out of it in the end.

I am sure that whilst the miners lost big time, Scargill and his henchmen certainly did not lose everything. They came out of it alright or did they also only have to live on strike pay at that time? Thought not. Scargill seems to have done very nicely out of it all, to the huge detriment of thousands of hard working decent miners, of which if honest he cared nothing for as he only believed in his own PR.

This is the real timetable of events leading up to and after the strike.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_%281984%E2%80%931985%29

Do union leaders really have this Socialistic dream, or is it as I suspect....every man for himself?

Shall I make a list of tory voters who live in council houses and make a donation to charity occasionally...or tories who use the N.H.S. or don't send their kids to private school....thet are appalling examples of capitalists ...shame on them.....your argument is as ever a large testicle stood proudly on a huge pile of bollocks

Isn't a testicle the correct term for a bollock?

Yes it's just as I said bollocks piled upon even more bollocks

Ah right got it Staggs......

Does anyone else have your take on things?



Here he is.........just for you.

He don't use Google either it seems.