| The Miners Strike on 12:30 - Jul 22 with 1643 views | Neath_Jack |
Can anyone recommend any good books on this subject? Preferably written by ex miners from Wales. |  |
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| The Miners Strike on 12:43 - Jul 22 with 1617 views | DJack |
| The Miners Strike on 12:28 - Jul 22 by Neath_Jack |
Do you mind if i ask why you had to cross the picket lines? |
I would hazard a guess that he was with the mine safety crew. A mine can't be left unserviced, untouched. |  |
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| The Miners Strike on 12:58 - Jul 22 with 1593 views | Treforys_Jack |
| The Miners Strike on 12:28 - Jul 22 by Neath_Jack |
Do you mind if i ask why you had to cross the picket lines? |
Yes no problem, i worked for an electrical sub contactor , we had to overhaul and service winch motors, fans , conveyor and water pumps. |  | | |
| The Miners Strike on 13:17 - Jul 22 with 1564 views | Neath_Jack |
| The Miners Strike on 12:58 - Jul 22 by Treforys_Jack |
Yes no problem, i worked for an electrical sub contactor , we had to overhaul and service winch motors, fans , conveyor and water pumps. |
Cheers mate.
So how did the strikers treat you at the point you had to pass them? Were they accepting of the fact that you had to pass? Where you from a mining village at the time? | |
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| The Miners Strike on 13:43 - Jul 22 with 1531 views | Treforys_Jack |
| The Miners Strike on 13:17 - Jul 22 by Neath_Jack |
Cheers mate.
So how did the strikers treat you at the point you had to pass them? Were they accepting of the fact that you had to pass? Where you from a mining village at the time? |
The union officials were fine , some individuals less so is the best way to put it. Had a few rocks thrown at the van until the officials brought them under order. There were genuine miners fighting for their livelihoods obviously, but also an element of anarchists who just wanted a ruck. It was a very confusing and emotional time. | | | |
| The Miners Strike on 13:51 - Jul 22 with 1520 views | Neath_Jack |
| The Miners Strike on 13:43 - Jul 22 by Treforys_Jack |
The union officials were fine , some individuals less so is the best way to put it. Had a few rocks thrown at the van until the officials brought them under order. There were genuine miners fighting for their livelihoods obviously, but also an element of anarchists who just wanted a ruck. It was a very confusing and emotional time. |
An awful time for all concerned.
The company i work for were doing a lot of work inside Llanwern steel works at the time, and they wouldn't let them in, even to collect the plant and equipment that they owned, or the men who had their work tools etc in there, the old fellas who were there at the time said they had never seen so many men with genuine hate on their faces.
Can you imagine trying to live on no money at all, as those miners did, in today's day and age. Doesn't bare thinking about. Absolutely disgraceful that they were treated like that. | |
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| The Miners Strike on 13:58 - Jul 22 with 1515 views | Darran |
| The Miners Strike on 12:30 - Jul 22 by Neath_Jack |
Can anyone recommend any good books on this subject? Preferably written by ex miners from Wales. |
How I Truncheoned Strikers by Dick Lewis. 👀 |  |
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| The Miners Strike on 16:32 - Jul 22 with 1444 views | sherpajacob |
| The Miners Strike on 23:19 - Jul 21 by Kilkennyjack |
Well .... yes and no.
Yes they deliberately dismantled the British state ...and killed all of British Airways, British Coal, British Steel, British Telecoms, British Petroleum, British Rail, British Gas, cut British Army, and privatised parts of the NHS.
No because its going to result in the unintended break up of the nations of the old British State. Mrs T would not be pleased. Her union is dead. |
The problem with Thatcherism is that eventually you run out of national assets to sell. |  |
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| The Miners Strike on 16:54 - Jul 22 with 1410 views | Highjack |
| The Miners Strike on 13:58 - Jul 22 by Darran |
How I Truncheoned Strikers by Dick Lewis. 👀 |
I’m waiting for the follow up book, Beating up cubicle benders. |  |
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| The Miners Strike on 17:16 - Jul 22 with 1388 views | raynor94 |
| The Miners Strike on 13:51 - Jul 22 by Neath_Jack |
An awful time for all concerned.
The company i work for were doing a lot of work inside Llanwern steel works at the time, and they wouldn't let them in, even to collect the plant and equipment that they owned, or the men who had their work tools etc in there, the old fellas who were there at the time said they had never seen so many men with genuine hate on their faces.
Can you imagine trying to live on no money at all, as those miners did, in today's day and age. Doesn't bare thinking about. Absolutely disgraceful that they were treated like that. |
Same as the Steel workers, I was on strike for 13 weeks in 1980, horrendous times |  |
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| The Miners Strike on 18:57 - Jul 22 with 1315 views | Flashberryjack |
We should be burning more coal instead of all this wind farm turbines, give me a good slag heap any day. |  |
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| The Miners Strike on 19:31 - Jul 22 with 1279 views | trampie |
| The Miners Strike on 12:02 - Jul 22 by Gwyn737 |
Really interesting aside in the book ‘Live at the Brixton academy’ where the owner talks about the behaviour of union leaders. Miners were using soup kitchens whereas Scargill and him mob were eating in high end restaurants with mercs parked outside all on the unions dime. |
Scargill is English, we should have nothing to do with them. |  |
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| The Miners Strike on 19:36 - Jul 22 with 1274 views | trampie |
| The Miners Strike on 12:14 - Jul 22 by raynor94 |
Things are no different today, Len McCluskey being a prime example |
Oh yes McCluskey that English guy from Liverpool with an Irish name.
We should have nothing to do with English trade union leaders, we should have Welsh trade unions. | |
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| The Miners Strike on 19:38 - Jul 22 with 1270 views | longlostjack |
| The Miners Strike on 19:31 - Jul 22 by trampie |
Scargill is English, we should have nothing to do with them. |
Trampie, at least there are Brexiteers who pretend they’re not racist 😂.
Edit: The Peeny has dropped.
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| The Miners Strike on 19:40 - Jul 22 with 1266 views | trampie |
| The Miners Strike on 22:51 - Jul 21 by Jack_Meoff |
The decimation was absolutely deliberate. Part of the bigger picture of the deindustrialization of the 'West.' And the destruction of the communities had grown up amongst said industries.
Damn shame? We should be that angry that we should be hanging the bastards that set this into motion so it'll never happen again. F*cking criminal treasonous worthless scum. F*cking Tory voters. What goes through your heads? |
Red and Blue Tory voters mind, Blair and Brown carried on her work. | |
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| The Miners Strike on 19:41 - Jul 22 with 1261 views | trampie |
| The Miners Strike on 23:19 - Jul 21 by Kilkennyjack |
Well .... yes and no.
Yes they deliberately dismantled the British state ...and killed all of British Airways, British Coal, British Steel, British Telecoms, British Petroleum, British Rail, British Gas, cut British Army, and privatised parts of the NHS.
No because its going to result in the unintended break up of the nations of the old British State. Mrs T would not be pleased. Her union is dead. |
Yip | |
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| The Miners Strike on 19:54 - Jul 22 with 1225 views | Flashberryjack |
| The Miners Strike on 19:40 - Jul 22 by trampie |
Red and Blue Tory voters mind, Blair and Brown carried on her work. |
Tony Blair did more damage to this country and the labour party than Maggie could only have dreamed of. | |
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| The Miners Strike on 20:02 - Jul 22 with 1215 views | oh_tommy_tommy |
| The Miners Strike on 23:19 - Jul 21 by Kilkennyjack |
Well .... yes and no.
Yes they deliberately dismantled the British state ...and killed all of British Airways, British Coal, British Steel, British Telecoms, British Petroleum, British Rail, British Gas, cut British Army, and privatised parts of the NHS.
No because its going to result in the unintended break up of the nations of the old British State. Mrs T would not be pleased. Her union is dead. |
Making Britain great agian |  |
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| The Miners Strike on 20:03 - Jul 22 with 1215 views | trampie |
Maggie started it by persuading the English working class and then Blair copied her, red or blue Tories they are both the same.
Vote left wing, vote Leanne.  | |
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| The Miners Strike on 21:45 - Jul 22 with 1160 views | Loyal |
| The Miners Strike on 22:33 - Jul 21 by Cooperman |
Cowards, hiding behind the badge. |
All of them ? |  |
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The official inventor of the tit w@nk. | | Poll: | Who should be Swansea number 1 |
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| The Miners Strike on 21:46 - Jul 22 with 1159 views | Jack_Meoff |
| The Miners Strike on 19:54 - Jul 22 by Flashberryjack |
Tony Blair did more damage to this country and the labour party than Maggie could only have dreamed of. |
And that's exactly why he was allowed into power. The psychopathic war mongering lunatics knew he was on board, and that it would be business as usual. Democracy my arse. |  |
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| The Miners Strike on 21:47 - Jul 22 with 1159 views | Loyal |
| The Miners Strike on 23:27 - Jul 21 by longlostjack |
Timing was all wrong. Scargill was an idiot. |
Ask any swans fan, the time is never right. | |
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| The Miners Strike on 21:55 - Jul 22 with 1140 views | Jack_Meoff |
| The Miners Strike on 19:40 - Jul 22 by trampie |
Red and Blue Tory voters mind, Blair and Brown carried on her work. |
And that's why they got into power tramp and someone like Corbyn will never, ever. Bad for the profit margin for those who can never get enough. | |
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| The Miners Strike on 22:45 - Jul 22 with 1093 views | Brynmill_Jack |
| The Miners Strike on 12:28 - Jul 22 by Neath_Jack |
Do you mind if i ask why you had to cross the picket lines? |
Perhaps he was a pit deputy . They had to go in to keep the pit pumps going to avoid flooding and losing the pit entirely |  |
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| The Miners Strike on 01:56 - Jul 23 with 1023 views | DJack |
| The Miners Strike on 19:54 - Jul 22 by Flashberryjack |
Tony Blair did more damage to this country and the labour party than Maggie could only have dreamed of. |
Absolute horseshIt! Thatchers "generation me" laid the path for Tony to trot. Thatcher's nostalgic view of market UK was the death knell of British inclusive society and was the blueprint of the sell-off of the UK's "crown jewels". | |
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