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Post by shrewed46 on Mar 3, 2015 16:18:49 GMT 1
The miners strike finally end. Not many can disagree with Denis Skinner's view of Thatcher's victory that it has resulted in "low pay, zero hours contracts, casual employment, insecurity and the breakdown of society".
A few might celebrate the neutering of the unions.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 16:27:49 GMT 1
But at least people go to buy thier council houses.............leaving a social housing shortfall.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 16:53:36 GMT 1
i predict a riot (no pun intended)
Thatchers calculated destruction of our society and the moral fibre within it, symbolised by her war on the miners, is for me, one of the great shames of our nations. As a lad in my early 20s I witnessed daily scenes of brutality more at home in Eastern Europe. And like an eastern european scenario, it was based purely on failed ideologies.
An inability of either side to see beyond their own blinkered bias cost us dear and even sadder, is that most governments since have failed to right those wrongs.
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Post by BlueTone on Mar 3, 2015 17:20:32 GMT 1
If this was Facebook it would be "Like, Like, Like "
Sent from my GT-I9195 using proboards
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Post by swissshrew on Mar 3, 2015 18:11:19 GMT 1
apparently Town are playing at Accrington this evening
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 18:14:23 GMT 1
Good result for a mate of mine who was a young copper at the time, his overtime earnings allowed him to put a deposit on a house!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 18:14:29 GMT 1
apparently Town are playing at Accrington this evening Hence the O/T prefix.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 18:15:30 GMT 1
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Post by shrewder on Mar 3, 2015 19:09:46 GMT 1
Remember it all very well. Doesn't seem like 30 years ago.
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Post by davycrockett on Mar 3, 2015 19:15:45 GMT 1
Good result for a mate of mine who was a young copper at the time, his overtime earnings allowed him to put a deposit on a house! And I was living in Manchester and the local copper was shipped all over the country and ended up a broken man and had to leave the force..... not good for either side 'our police' were forced to do things against working men that have haunted them for the rest of their lives... I for 1 will never forgive MT for what she did and have no respect for her!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 19:17:41 GMT 1
apparently Town are playing at Accrington this evening I assume you're on your way now?
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Post by jamo on Mar 3, 2015 20:30:30 GMT 1
Good result for a mate of mine who was a young copper at the time, his overtime earnings allowed him to put a deposit on a house! Good result for many a Copper in fact. Plenty of anecdotal stories of mortgages being paid off and lifestyles greatly enhanced. Different times of course and The Police as instruments of the state did as they were ordered to do but i am sure that as a result many a 'combatant' on either side were never quite the same again Orgreave was one of the defining moments of my formative years and i will never forget the crowing of Thatcher and MacGregor following those events. Whatever the issue and whatever the motives the events of those days will always cast a long shadow over the recent history of this country
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Post by atcham jack on Mar 4, 2015 8:46:20 GMT 1
there was never going to be any victory in the miners strike, with 2 stubborn donkeys in charge. Maggie out for revenge for Heath's embarrassing 3 day week and scargill's refusal to hold a ballot. the result confrontation, pickets and fatalities. the final straw more pits closed and worse still mining communities totally devastated and impoverished as many are today.
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