Miners Strike - Page 3

cashman · 06-03-2009, 23:06

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Originally Posted by Eric

And for this she deserves a state funeral

... I don't be thinking so

i will tell ya this Eric, 20 odd years ago i made a promise, to get rat arsed when the cow dies, i cannot drink these days fer health reasons, but i have NEVER broken a promise.

cmonstanley · 06-03-2009, 23:18

theyve been to busy clearing up the mess that thatcher left behind. i dont agree with everything labour has done or not .but weve never seen so many new hospitals and schools built since the sixties in the last decade.thats called investment,i remember going to school in thatchers era.crumbling walls outside toilets 36 to a class no heating..yes i remember the tories cuts in the education budget..

Royboy39 · 06-03-2009, 23:25

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Originally Posted by cmonstanley

theyve been to busy clearing up the mess that thatcher left behind. i dont agree with everything labour has done or not .but weve never seen so many new hospitals and schools built since the sixties in the last decade.thats called investment,i remember going to school in thatchers era.crumbling walls outside toilets 36 to a class no heating..yes i remember the tories cuts in the education budget..

I wish all this bullshine could be put on the backburner...and I ask in all sincerity....are you happy with your lot?

cashman · 06-03-2009, 23:26

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

I wish all this bullshine could be put on the backburner...and I ask in all sincerity....are you happy with your lot?

don't think anyone is, but at least we have the honesty to realise how its all come about.

Royboy39 · 06-03-2009, 23:30

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Originally Posted by cashman

don't think anyone is, but at least we have the honesty to realise how its all come about.

Why not take on board the current siuation...Maggie cant be responsible for that......Not fit for purpose springs to mind.

cashman · 06-03-2009, 23:31

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

Why not take on board the current siuation...Maggie cant be responsible for that......Not fit for purpose springs to mind.

i am slagging the labour government fer it, summat you could never bring yerself to do with your lot. that says it all.

cmonstanley · 06-03-2009, 23:42

i said im not happy with everything labour has done or not,ive just found myself agreeing with the liberal democratic leader

am i goin mad

cashman · 06-03-2009, 23:45

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

Why not take on board the current siuation...Maggie cant be responsible for that......Not fit for purpose springs to mind.

Typical tory tactic - move the goalposts this thread is about the miners strike.

nowt to do with the current situation, other threads are.

Royboy39 · 06-03-2009, 23:48

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Originally Posted by cashman

Typical tory tactic - move the goalposts this thread is about the miners strike.

nowt to do with the current situation, other threads are.

Not my idea to move the goalposts...my computer is playing up...will respond in the morrow.

cashman · 07-03-2009, 00:01

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

If you were called out to a violent mob, half of which wear'nt miners anyway,,,who would you call....Ghostbusters? or ring 999.
What has Mark Thatcher to do with the miners strike? cheap shot.

yeh you forgot to mention builders going to work in vans during the strike, stopped n turned back. loosing jobs/work through thatchers thugs, that is fact one of me best mates was one, nearly cost him his business.

buts thats typical of your lot.

garinda · 07-03-2009, 00:32

No miner's strike.

No Billy Elliot.

So at least one young Geordie got a job out of it.

On a more serious notes one of my closest friends at college in 1984 was the daughter of a miner from south Yorkshire. He was forty nine when it started, and never worked again, and not through lack of trying.

cashman · 07-03-2009, 00:36

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Originally Posted by garinda

On a more serious notes one of my closest friends at college in 1984 was the daughter of a miner from south Yorkshire. He was forty nine when it started, and never worked again, and not through lack of trying.

theres quite a few like that poor sod, convienantly forgotten about by those scumbags.

garinda · 07-03-2009, 00:44

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Originally Posted by cashman

theres quite a few like that poor sod, convienantly forgotten about by those scumbags.

It was through knowing this friend's family that I got to know and see some of the devastation that was caused.

It wasn't just a few miners, it was the whole community that suffered. Village after village, town after town, and a whole generation of people thrown on a bigger scrap heap than was ever created by any mine workings.

Bernard Dawson · 07-03-2009, 00:48

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Originally Posted by Neil

So why has the present Labour Government not reopened them? They have been in power long enough to undo all Thatchers evil mistakes.

I am no expert on mining, but it probably isn't that easy to reopen pits once they had been shut for some time.

The pity was that a lot of the pits were closed in the first place. This country could have been self sufficent in coal for years.

What couldn't be repaired as well was the close communities, that were destroyed as a result of the misguided policy of closing the pits.

cashman · 07-03-2009, 00:49

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Originally Posted by garinda

It was through knowing this friend's family that I got to know and see some of the devastation that was caused.

It wasn't just a few miners, it was the whole community that suffered. Village after village, town after town, and a whole generation of people thrown on a bigger scrap heap than was ever created by any mine workings.

i know this only to well rindy, but "THEY" don't care n never will.