Yvonne- miners picketed docks; miners picketed power-stations and motorway junctions- miners were desperate and upon occasion resorted to desperate measures, two striking Miners and one scab were also were killed.
I remember the intelligence of the miners who organised a picket line on a powerstation in N. Wales. It was a nuclear power station. I remember the arrogance of the miners who blockaded the M18 in S Yorkshire dragged the driver out and beat him with metal bars because they assumed he was a scab carrying coal - he had a load of sugar beet and I remember picketing miners who threw blocks through a tipper lorry windscreen nearly killing my husband.They seemed to think it was all right fighting for their livelihoods by trying to kill other people who were entitled to carry on their lawful business. And I remember Maggie selling off council houses and wondering where the people who really needed somewhere to live would go.
There is no all good or all bad. Those who are spending their time with their heads buried in their grievances would do better to read Pete Slater's 'Olden Times' and usefully employ themselves in helping to mend our broken communities in more practical ways.
Graham
a bit sterteotypical doncha think. people write about what means something to them - you can't change that - in the same way that you have your opinions - presumably from the south if your tone is read correctly - by all means criticise, but you simply aren't going to change people's opinions just because you want to. IT HAPPENED - IT AFFECTED THE NORTH - IT IS UNLIKELY WE WILL FORGET - why would we not reference it in our work?
cheers
Ian
''move on'' hahaha the great couldn't-give-a-shit response to someone else's grievance. Or are you having a laff Gramms?
Well that's it, she's gone. Who are you poor old northerners going to get your teeth into next?
Is there anyone south of the Watford Gap who feels so strongly and has let any politician ruin their lives as much as our friends in the north.
Sooner or later you're going to have to move on for God's sake, or is he a Tory too?
Jimmy Tarbuck, John Bishop, now the Kop.
I gather they do good ones about the Munich Air Crash and the Juventus fans killed at Heysel.
Those Liverpool scallies really do have the monopoly on wit and repartee!
Sorry a.f.s she was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of members of the armed forces and misery enforced through her economic policies,did she stop and grieve for the deaths and misery? or did she carry on carrying on?- Tommy
Does this contribute to a poetry site?
at WOL in Wigan on Thursday - a young lady read out a CRASS lyric
just saying :-)
Ian
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M.C. Newberry
Thu 18th Apr 2013 15:52
Yvonne - you may also recall that awful killing of the taxi driver - crushed to death by a 50lb block of concrete hurled from a motorway bridge as he drove working miners to their early shift. The disgraceful judgement of manslaughter and not murder (when all the malice aforethought and planning seemed plain) was an expedient slap in the face of justice. A prominent mining official (who became a Labour minister) later admitted hurrying to the office to make sure their backs were covered. Illuminating how far certain types would go to achieve their ends.