Coal miners strike

[gibraltaradscom]

I was 12 at the time from a village called clipstone in notts. The bully boy strikers lost big time. The scabs lost big time and every poor fucker who lived and breathed community lost. We can never get the spirit back. Generations hate each other and drugs will eventually ease the memories. Words can't describe the hate that's still there...What a fucking shame people.

[pyro999maniac]

scargill is at fault for the destruction of our pits

[vivascargill]

@pyro999maniac bull fuckin shit!! It was planned since 72!!

[mateyla321]

i thought it was a gd video brought bk some shivering memories for me im from a mining family dont matter which end of world it is u see mates dads die n then husbands and then try n fight for their own families living, n that was just in my bit, i was lucky my dad lived and husband in disabled ways but still here they are ace try to look after others they wasent thugs or out of order they just wanted a fair job to bring money home to family

[Hoxification]

look at some other media analysts... eg: medialens

[Freddie1980]

Nice video but your wrong to pigeon hole people like that i.e working classes supported Labour and the middle and upper classes supported the Conservatives. If it weren't for the working classes in the south (towns like Basildon for example) Thatcher would have struggled to get into government. The other side of the coin is true as well, Labour got it's fair share of middle class voters post election 83.

[stercus2759]

The media will not show what the miners were fighting for.  Only the miners will know what they were fighting for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stercus2759]

nothing has changed they only want us to believe so

[Warbrain88]

Cool vid. I was always intrigued at the media aspects in my degree so I always chose those related questions for assignments too.

[arzoyan]

Capitalism the legalised robbery of the working class. a false limit to our humanity

[MrDS67]

Unions should not have the kind of control that they were allowed in the UK in the 1970s.

[chipbutty1970]

england no industry,import everthing

[chipbutty1970]

miners working class hero's

[stevehwan]

miners are scum, wasting billions of tax payer money for producing mini amounts of coal.

[wiganjoe]

would like to bump into you ,just to educate you,you seem to have a problem,your arse and your gob are too near oneanother.

[agaichapter25]

@stevehwan ...some kind of cunt..u got to be..pathetic ..no other word for you...maybe nobsack?

[TheComradeRoss]

Capitalism is a dirty business.

[rbbrlvr]

Miners are cunts

[WAJJER1990]

not all Notts were scabs, some did go on strike but nature of the county as moderates made this no. small. the divisions were terrible, my grandad was a scab and my uncle was a striker-never talked for years

[deathtotheunions]

What is the difference between a scab and someone who thinks for themselves. I know a Bilsthorpe guy who carried on working because he wouldnt be told what to do but if there had been a ballot probably would have voted yes.

[phoebuzzer]

thatcher to brown is there any light at the end of the tunnel? me thinks not :(

[campoking]

the thing is if this woman was to stand next year in a general election as say a 50 year old how many people would vote for her ? to fucking many is my thought

[fomastephanovitch]

You on fear people having views like hers because of the derangement syndrome baby-boomers have formulated from the cult of her archetype.

I can't say much for her foreign policies but domestically Britain was lifted out of a hole: I also hate to point out that the state of the country's finances require a Thatcher more than anything.

Who the fuck would want to be a coal miner in the 21st century?

[DOGJOKY]

i fucking would,you nob jockey

[fomastephanovitch]

Are you sure it's a free choice?

Generally when someone throws an insult like that at you their station is forced upon them.

Enjoy scrounging round in the dirt do you?

[bigloubhoy]

ere we go ere we go ere we go ere.south wales south wales.i'll be there i'll be there with my little pick and shovel i'll be there.big respect to all striking miners from all at the cardiff city soul crew.nuff respect.

[eatmypies]

DEATH OF THE UNIONS ive noticed your stance against the freedom of every man and woman to withdraw their labour is a soft spot with you.What do expect communities to do when a tryrant wants not only to take away your income and the future of your children,but the very reason to instill into your children that work is an ethic that is totally cruciall to any society.

[deathtotheunions]

You can go on strike if you want to but dont expect your job back at the end of it or people to bow down to you. How were the militant unions accountable to the general public for their behaviour ??? Again why dont you buy the coal mines yourself. (Oh yea what did you think of Derek Hatton ??? Lefty Arthur Daley or what ??)

[ninianbhoys]

you are a hooker who fucks tories for money you filthy whore.

[deathtotheunions]

Darlings I dont have sex with them I whip them - remember the more edukated you are the more kinky you are.

[bigloubhoy]

death of the unions great grandparents were probably workhouse owners.right wing tory shit cunt.

[RashidDostum]

Smack dealers thriving in former steel and pit towns. Madame Thatchers free enterprise a roaring success after all.

[captaincavemaaaannn]

Bang on mate! She split tight communities up and replaced them with rubbish which the remaining decent people have to live amongst or get out if they can.

[psuedosurfer]

The epitome of the Thatcher years,

the destruction of communities and the breaking of social bonds, surreptitious police agitators and of course enforced brutality.

A 5 by 5 video.

[deathtotheunions]

Do you notice that the sensible comments are by people who arent realy political but just say it as it is - such as eyevanblack - whilst pricks like joeporta just talk crap and achieve nothing - a bit like scargill, weggie, galloway and all that rubbish.

[bigloubhoy]

you are obviously a thatcherite do you wank over her pictures you fucking scumbag.

[deathtotheunions]

Sorry is it illegal to be to the right of Scargill and co - ps do you wank over scargill in miner uniform ???

[andrewharrisleeds]

sorry to upset you. I think the technical work of the video is good its just the whole subject pisses me off not your work. Sorry again. Keep making films please! I hate the mass media. Scumbags.

[earley15]

Fair do's, you didn't upset me. Im thinking of doing another miners strike video soon with interviews and that, this all happened before I was born so its intresting to see and hear peoples views

[doveyabas33]

@earley15

cool,the media manipulated the masses into believing the miners were thugs, ill be having a good drink when the wicked witch dies, that woman is hated and a disgrace of a human being, an oxygen thief she is.

[andrewharrisleeds]

THOUGHT IT WAS A CRAP VDEO TALKING ABOUT THE MEDIA only THE MEDIA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, GET REAL THOSE ARE REAL PEOPLE AND REAL LIVES SOLD DOWN THE RIVER BY EVIL THATCHER. A GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE AND THE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE. THATCHER WAS FOR HERSELF AND HER GANG, THE RICH, THE AMERICANS, WAR, B FROM HELL AND ALL THE FOOLS WHO FOLLOWED HER. A REAL GOVT WOULD HAVE TAKEN RESPONSABILITY FOR THE MINERS AND THOSE WHOLE REGIONS OF THEIR BRITAIN. THAT _ FD THEM AND LAUGHED

[earley15]

31 seconds in to the video there is a slide that says how did the media portray the strike and did they give the miners a bad reputation. It was a 5 mintue presentation I couldn't of got every aspect of the strike in. I think the slides saying the media missed the suffering of everyday people supports your those are real people comment. If you hate it that much make your own video....now jog on

[vivascargill]

@andrewharrisleeds right--look at what they did to Arthur! Don't see Joe and Davy mentioned! Fuck the media!

[vivascargill1]

@andrewharrisleeds The Americans were in on it!!

[joeporta]

im wi ppolly

scargill was my union leader, did what we wanted him too, you people will never understand, britain lost, not just us miners, scabby notts bastards, and the media, TUC betrayal, long live KING ARTHUR, we,ll always love ya mate, now start the revolution, this time, WE WILL WIN, ere we go ere we go ere we goooooooo

[bigloubhoy]

very true my brother notts scabs will be remembered in history.big up from south wales.

[importedmusic]

agreed..fuckin notts scabs...

[SouthDownIPLO]

scargill was a hero,he had the guts to stand up to that cunt thatcher

[obviouslyFAKE2]

A poignant, well constructed vid. Good one for invoking the propaganda slant. Hope the youth watch this and start gettin the idea about active and passive viewing. Mind you, its not just the youth now is it,there's plenty of closed narrow minded older folks out there too who need enlightening and educating.

Its only through the benefit of informed empathetic hindsight that I've been able to recognise the tragedy off the whole situation: what it started and where its led us.

"Get-up Stand-up"

[deathtotheunions]

scargill ordered people out on strike on the 1st of May. what a great time to have a coal strike. what a total twaaat. Personally I dont see the point in a coal industry if the scum num cant be arsed to go to work.

[owzabout]

they was putting tools down for the slighest thing, unions are good if the union leaders are sensible people, not penis's like prick king arthur, who did'nt feel the pinch, cos he was rich, but the simple brain dead miners, did'nt notice arthur was getting fatter by the day, my missus's dad was,in the strikes, they was porpers,she was given an home made barbie doll house xmas,and charity,. the miners were thick as two short planks.and twice as silly

[eyevanblack]

The thing was the miners had lost right from the start and the idiot who led them through all of that should have been honest from the start and said "look chaps they have 12 years worth of coal stock piled and so when we go out don't think you will come back because it will tip the scales of how much the country thinks they need coal and to put up with 3 day working weeks etc". At the end of the day the unions were destroying this country in general. We need thatcher back now sort things out

[Ppolly66]

Twelve years worth of stocks?But you may have a point of the timing;when do you say enough is enough? Ask for Thatcher returning; she and the tories may have put monies in peoples' pockets, but the huge magority had a shit load anyway! We lost and we know it, but all of us are paying the price now. Gas,electric and water;all privatised under Mrs T.I fought tooth and nail in something;a way of life, I believed in. Not many people can say that!! Wake up kid!!

[k3dude]

Yea and this pc web warrior friggerme100 proberbly was making the cops tea at the time.

And I guess you get every spelling right dont you dick head.

[Ppolly66]

18 years of age in '84; no money,got arrested,got dumped,fought weekly wi' scabs;one of the best fuckin' years of my life! Why? Wised up to the government,TUC,police,media,ju­dicial service Etc. Only a handful of pits open now, heroin epidemics in run down pit communities, gas,petrol and electric prices sky high!!

Most people who slag our struggle off, most probably never fought for something they believed in and never will!!!

Great video!!! Viva le Scargill,'ten years too late!!'

[nogarange]

@Ppolly66 Asa12 monther myself with 2 brothers and my dad in the same boat i hope that bastard thatcher realises what she has done cos its too late to turn the clocks back now all we have left is broken banks a stuffed economy and more teenage junkies with no hope of a proper job

[k3dude]

frigger100 ''int it grim upt north err by ek''

Int it grim in your neck of the woods i bet the winter nights fly by in your house.

who cride the most in 1984 when they got hit eh thats right the cops well all i can say is i gave as good as i got and im proud to say so.

[Frigger100]

Another NUMB pit man. Cried is spelled this way IDIOT

[wiganjoe]

spelled ??? there is no such word, carry on making a fool of yourself.learn grammar thick cunt, but then again you more than likely to have had your face in your grandmothers cunt most of your life you are a fucking idiot

[Frigger100]

int it grim upt north err by ek

[whurlyned]

We owe these people so much, never have so few given so much to so many, same for The Liverpool Dockers,. Don't believe me? get the CASA in Hope Street Liverpool. True Socialism

[northern198]

ITs what happens with this country fook the ones that feed it

[eyevanblack]

Socialism doesn't work. The only way it would work is if everyone was forced to follow the same rules and only be able to do the same things. Otherwise some people will automatically do better or want more.

[deathtotheunions]

Yep - these people destroy jobs like no other - magic (????)

[earley15]

No this was a small part of it just to give a very general background to the strike.

[belisariusorb]

This counts as university-level work now?

[earley15]

1984

[Razo5678]

Good Video very Interesting, do you know what year most of the pics where from??

Like 1921, 1984, 1910 because there were a lot of miners strikes.

[anarchy4theuk222]

1984