Strike84 Images from the 1984 Miners Strike UK (Short Version).

The closures of the pits and decimation of the coal industry was politically, not economically, motivated. The irony is, in a world of increasingly sarce resources, who would bet against the pits being re-opened in the near future? And by the way, Britain had many flaws in those days, but the economy was actually more productive than it is today. Now we're nothing but a country sinking in debt with an ever widening gap between rich and poor; the net result of thatcherite and New Labour polices.

still having a party , when THATCHER dies

demanding high wages?29 years underground and grafted for fuck all

I worked in the pits for 20 years and was a miner during the 1984/85 strike and stuck it out till we all marched back.
We were fighting for our jobs 'villages towns and cities survival and all thatcher wanted was to smash all the unions and us.
all the talk about cheaper coal from abroad was bollocks look at the price now of coal gas electric the bastard tories started this mess and the labour party have carried on

The British miners dug their own grave by demanding such high wages( it was cheaper to import). Don't blame Maggie- she wasn't perfect - but destroying greedy mining and print unions was a great acheivement. She was simply the first prime minister strong enough to stand up to them. Greedy unions almost destroyed the U.K. it had to be done. Don't get the wrong idea; thousands of unemployed miners, steel workers and printers was a sad situation, but it was self inflicted.

I was one of the many Met cops who policed the strike and I agree; Maggie was not perfect and she decided enough was enough with the Unions calling the shots.

If Scargill had held a ballot I believe he would have won it, and the strike. It was brinkmanship, and Scargill lost the Mexican stand-off!!!

your behaviour was that of a scum bag then!

Fuck off you scum.

What an absolute load of bollocks.

this party when thatcher dies, do we need to use ticketmaster? the music's haunting anybody know what it is?