The Miners Strike 1984-85/These Are The Ghosts-The Bees

Music:These Are The Ghosts by The Bees

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• 80s

[ForeverComplaining]

grow a pair. Real men don't cry to unions, real men get the job done, and the only real man relevant here appears to be Margaret Thatcher.

Accept the fact that you were all useless, yes some worked hard but unfortunately you didn't make profit and I personally find it hilarious that you are ignorant enough to protest for higher wages when you made this country losses and burdened the working class tax payers, who pay tax for useful things not you pathetic time wasters.

[stev1963hit]

@ForeverComplaining Ha tory scum-remind me-in yer 2nd paragraph are you talking about Unions or Fat Bankers! Rhetorical question btw,now f-ck off faggot boot-lick & die!

[Briantheminer1]

I was loyal for the 12 months, and wouldn't have missed it for the world. Spot on video, well done.

[stev1963hit]

@Briantheminer1 Cheers bruv & thanks for everything you boys did,seems 'thier' economic doctrine might be dying-cant wait for it and 'her' to be history!

[prblogger]

I was the first generation on both sides of my parents' families not to work down the pit. As a seven year old at the time I remember the strike pretty well. My dad got hit by a southern copper while picketing, me mam had to beg the bank to freeze the mortgage payments and we had to go looking for firewood to keep warm over the winter.

I'm doing well in my white collar London desk job but I watch this video often and every time I do I get a lump in my throat. So proud. Thanks stev1963hit.

[stev1963hit]

@prblogger Thanks bruv & respect to yer Dad,hope they managed to rebuild thier lives(have heard of so many who never really got over it financially).

[32peartree]

@MrBulldogtools That's what they want to us to think - to give up - and just look after no one. They can get away with it because the younger generation has been dumbed down and turned into a lumpen proletariat. That's one of the reasons they broke the unions - because that's were the working class learnt about politics. But I think things will get worse before they get better.

[MrBulldogtools]

@1killerbilly The Tories create an underclass,then they blame said underclass for being an underclass in the first place.They do not care about working people,back then,to the present day-but having said that,I don,t think any of us can rely on politics any more for our salvation.

[MrBulldogtools]

@32peartree Too right,manufacturing sold out,mineral extraction sold out,no bloody wonder half the country is sat on its arse watching Jeremy kyle,or pretending to be ill to get more dole.I often wonder who is to blame.Fact is though we are a country that an no longer provide for itself in many things,let alone energy,and the fact we rely so much on others is reprehensible.The Tories don,t care,could not give a fuck,its only working class people out of work,like now,they love it.Bastards.

[32peartree]

@MrBulldogtools I'll love to see the look on the faces of these smug Tory pricks when the Chinese mine workers go on strike. Its only a matter of time - because the Chinese miners are paid peanuts and lose six thousand men a year. Moreover, when it kicks off - the PM won't be able to invite the Chinese equivalent of Arthur Scargill into No 10 for a nice cozy chat over beer and sandwiches. They'll rue the day they relied on other countries for our energy supplies - total madness.

[MrBulldogtools]

@ForeverComplaining Do some homework instead of ranting your half baked Tory shit here,go read,do some research,and see the facts that coal was viable.We now go abroad for our energy needs-coal being one,we still use it! And I,m stupid? I know more about work and workers rights than you ever will,I,ve forgotten more in fact you tool.Work gives wages,products sell,people pay-you can only tax profit,not deficit.Ignorance to you must indeed be bliss.

[MrBulldogtools]

@ForeverComplaining What job in industry is safe you clown??,every one carries measured risk,which monitored,and countermanded by safe systems of work,correct working practices is then lessened to an acceptable degree.Everyone has to work,and earn a living,and many me included,take risks every day,but common sense prevails,and we come home safely at the end of the day.Life is a calculated risk.

[MrBulldogtools]

@ForeverComplaining Learn to spell you Tory twat,British mines where technologically advanced places to work,very few miners worked in the pre mechanisation conditions you seem to envisage.Unions did and do a lot of good,not all the time every time,but by and large.And no one was held to ransom for anything you blinkered pillock!

[ForeverComplaining]

@MrBulldogtools So you would rather the majority of British workers, whom are tax payers, many of which who had low incomes, continue paying higher sums of tax just to keep open these unprofitable things which made nothing but losses? when we got the coal else where far cheaper.

You are stupid, you know nothing about workers rights, you are justifying taxing the poor higher to give a tiny minority backwards unprofitable employment.

[ForeverComplaining]

@MrBulldogtools If they cared about workers rights, they would have had those mines shut down and told those miners to work else where as mining is NOT a safe job.

[ForeverComplaining]

@MrBulldogtools Those unions profitted off of men who were working in mines, in backwards conditions. How you can possibly make them out to be the good ones, when they were incredibly powerful institutions, holding tax payers to randsome, institutions which were ran but multi-millionaires, sums up your level of stupidity!