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A pair of nutters
How come not one 1980s squaddie has ever come forward and sold their story to a newspaper, or spoken about the day they dressed up as a policeman during the miners strike?
Probably because it never happened.
Liar
Still Hate Thatcher
Who could have thought that satan had actively worked against the people?
If the army had been there the soldiers would have been identified by now.
The pits were loosing money hand over fist something had to be fone
Maggie WON. Scargill is living in luxury. Thickoes get shat on. Hey ho.
When the needed the army they tried to cover up the attocities. For fear of causing offence to a certain demographic!
9th March 2024
'The pit wheels may have stopped turning, buy the coal embers are still burning. Deep in the hearts of South Yorkshire.'
Will you march in solidarity with the Hatfield Miners?
Miners' Strike 40th anniversary: Arthur Scargill, 86, to lead Doncaster commemoration
Veteran trade unionist Arthur Scargill will lead a parade to mark the 40th anniversary of the Minersโ Strike in Doncaster.
David Douglass, the former secretary of Hatfield Main NUM branch, has helped to organise the event, which will see a parade along Broadway in Dunscroft arriving at the Hatfield Colliery headgear where Hatfield Colliery Band will perform.
There will then be a rally at the nearby Pit Club including performances and speeches from Mr Scargill, Hatfield Branch spokesman Harry Harle, pit poet Eddie Pickard and singer Joe Solo, followed by an open folk music session.
Various mining organisations, including the Women Against Pit Closures movement, will be represented at the event, which will see participants arriving at The Broadway Hotel in Dunscroft from 9.30am to 11am.
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Let those coal embers burn and shine a light on the bravery, solidarity and determination of the miners to fight for their communities and the right to work and a decent wage.
What irony – a mob minded politically violent government leader calling her victims a mob.
Certainly I hope they were at the ready. This was an attempt to overthrow the state and force a communist revolution.
enjoy migrants
Why stiking miners and there wife's terrorised working miners and there children screaming we living on ยฃ21 a week ๐ฎFFS tell that to your husbands not abuse break windows bully kids whos fathers husband chose to be working not bullied ๐ and put there families first โค those men showed REAL back bone
I remember this BS when GROWN MEN came to my LOVING/Kind Mum did FOOD-Parcels for the Miners because being on Strike they Could;nt claim ANYTHING off the FILTH IN LONDON. The HATE i still have towards FILTH is Palpable and i have NEVER Respected KACK-BOOT-THUG-PIGS. Check out My friend in America DELETE-LAWZ, AS he shows-Proves that 99.99% Of FILTH-PIGS only sign up because they ARE MENTAL.
RIP David Bell, Oakley Fife. The pigs broke his leg at Orgreave. Another lad from our village had his skull cracked wide open. Both were looking 12 year in jail, found not guilty and eventually awarded around ยฃ25,000 in compensation.
F*ck Thatcher
SCARGILL MADE A MASSIVE MISTAKE HE STRIKED IN THE SUMMER , IF THEY HAD STRIKED IN THE WINTER THATCHER WOULDNT HAVE LASTED THATS WHAT WAS THE BIG ERROR
Brilliant this my wifeโs father was ted leader celynen south
Bringing in troops was just the tip of the iceberg, I worked for a lady who's father worked in mi5/6 and during the miners conflict, on his death she went through papers that had been locked away in their family home which pointed to a meeting in which, had the unions got the upper hand there would be moves to eliminate Scargill through either an accident or poisoning.
This just justifies that the unionists, of GB during the Thatcher years came to Australia and caused strikes at the beer breweries in the early 1980's at Easter and Christmas. I remember the beer strikes of 1982 and having a Scots Union Official (Thatcher Escapee) dictating terms for the Easter Weekend. This was Queensland, Australia.
the people involved in that strike should be ashamed
I will tell you something, I lived and worked in the 70's in the UK. I was sick to death of strikes affecting my life, they didn;t care about me, so why should I care about them. majority rule, and the strikers were not the majority, I loved watching thatcher sort this mess out, scargill was an evil man.
Paul Mason: MI5 agent
Bring British coal back
Violence will not succeed she said .The most violent woman who revelled in working class pain.Horrible woman.Ex services after the strike and remember how many service folk thought she was wonderful but none were from mining steel or industrial areas.
Thatcher was too soft.
I'm glad Mags crushed Union Blackmail of the National Economy———–"overpay me or else!"
Scargill was no match for the Iron Lady.