25 years ago today

Fetish_Bob · **Posted:** Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:37 pm

The miner's strike finished. Another great British Industry lost.

In this area , Ashington , Bedlington, Sacriston, Eppleton, Whittal, Dawdon, Murton, Easington, Vane Tempest/ Seaham, Wearmouth. Those are the ones I can remember

All gone due to a vindictive witch who simply wanted revenge.

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:28 pm

Horden?

alleztfc · **Posted:** Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:45 pm

Aye, so let's re=elect the asset-stripping elitist public school toast-racks all over again!

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22671

[x] Commence stating entrenched positions and have the same old argument again.

Uneconomic mines
Endemic thievery
Ridiculous and greedy wage demands
Hold the country to rensom once too often
Follow a madman to destruction
Pick a fight with the wrong woman

Cornelius Atweasle · **Posted:** Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:53 pm

Fetish_Bob wrote:

The miner's strike finished. Another great British Industry lost.

Coal mining was no longer vital to the UK economy, and what was needed was imported from Nigeria at a fraction of the cost. The great British industry was dying long before Scargill and Thatcher as nuclear power produced cheaper electricity. As with British Steel, the industry was overmanned and killing itself.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37769

Before Labour were elected, they railed against what the Tories had done. They get into power and everything stays the same. :roll:

By the way, when the Steelworks were shut, we had a Labour Government, and when the old man lost his job at the nationalised shipyard we had a Labour Government... they're all the same, so stop romanticising the myths, none of them are worth a bucket of warm spit.

Cornelius Atweasle · **Posted:** Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:02 pm

Who? Me?

Cornelius Atweasle · **Posted:** Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:03 pm

And wasn't it 25 years ago today, Sgt Pepper taught the band to play?

The Beatles, pahh!

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:17 pm

The Tories could of trimmed and improved the Coal Mining Industry, as some pits were very profitable, whereas others were'nt due mainly to overmanning and severe, costly, flooding issues. But the Mad Witch chose to rout the industry through nothing more than spite and vengeance.

As stated on the radio this morning, there are reserves of coal which could last 130 years unmined, whereas gas and oil reserves are set to last only 40/50 yrs.

Still not a job I'd fancy personally, unhealthy, dangerous and filthy. But managed to keep many people and families in gainful employment for many years.

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:23 pm

My grandad was down the pit for thirty years

My nana was fuming, his dinner was on the table

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22671

My Grandfather is on that list.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:18 am

TalbotAvenger wrote:

My grandad was down the pit for thirty years

My nana was fuming, his dinner was on the table

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:20 am

chip fireball wrote:

having grown up in a pit village i can assure folk the mines were wretched places to work, especially going back 100 years.

i was very lucky to be from a generation where very few of us on leaving school had to work there.

you could see the misery of the mines on the faces of all the blokes in their 50's and 60's whose broken bodies littered the workies clubs.

if you look at the list at the bottom of the page on this link it lists the deaths of those young and old that died down just one pit. and this was one of them that didnt have a disaster and it dont include the 100s that will have gone to early graves with illnesses like lung disease you got from working there.

http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/h012.htm

Real sympathy from me for them all....and those poor Pit Ponies that never saw sunlight!!!! sadx

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:55 am

My nana's from a pit village and hates Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party with a passion.

But she's 91 and doesn't know any better.

I wonder what some of your excuses are?

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:35 am

Mr Ripper wrote:

My nana's from a pit village and hates Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party with a passion.

But she's 91 and doesn't know any better.

I wonder what some of your excuses are?

Dunno but how old were you when Thatch got booted out, about 12?

Getting your rocks off over a 70 year old woman makes you an old age pedo doesn't it?

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:45 am

TalbotAvenger wrote:

Dunno but how old were you when Thatch got booted out, about 12?

I wish.

Compo · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:52 am

I know the closing of the pits and what happening at corus and devistate a community but lets be real here, now I dont know a lot about the situation being 27, but if something is not making money why should it stay open?

My grandad was also a miner and worked his ass off unfortunatly I didnt know him that well as he died of lung cancer when I was 9, horrible industry.

The Fat Man · **Joined:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:03 pm **Posts:** 2107

Mr I wrote:

[x] Commence stating entrenched positions and have the same old argument again.

Uneconomic mines
Endemic thievery
Ridiculous and greedy wage demands
Hold the country to rensom once too often
Follow a madman to destruction
Pick a fight with the wrong woman

Yet we spend billions on bankers?

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22671

Which is also indefensible.

Compo · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:51 pm

The Fat Man wrote:

Mr I wrote:

[x] Commence stating entrenched positions and have the same old argument again.

Uneconomic mines
Endemic thievery
Ridiculous and greedy wage demands
Hold the country to rensom once too often
Follow a madman to destruction
Pick a fight with the wrong woman

Yet we spend billions on bankers?

Think there is a bit of a difference to how MP's saw these two, if and when the mine closed that killed a community, if the banks collapsed it would kill the country. I am not saying its right but thats the way the commons saw it.

Mumtaz's rucksack · **Joined:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:38 pm **Posts:** 1643

Snowy wrote:

Before Labour were elected, they railed against what the Tories had done. They get into power and everything stays the same. :roll:

By the way, when the Steelworks were shut, we had a Labour Government, and when the old man lost his job at the nationalised shipyard we had a Labour Government... they're all the same, so stop romanticising the myths, none of them are worth a bucket of warm spit.

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