Miners strike channel 4 (1 Viewer)

Really enjoyed it… brought back memories of my Dad coming home from work not saying a word and just storming upstairs to my bedroom to rip down my ‘Get Maggie out’ poster I had put up in my bedroom window for the street to see. I was a bit of a 17 year old Comrade Covkid back in the day… and let’s just say my Dad was a Daily Mail reader. The miners strike brought happy times to our house …. Not!!

Take a look at the extent to which the laws in this country go to hinder people in a work force from just getting collective bargaining rights, never mind anything else. Then ask yourself why

The police under Thatchers government were used as a tool for oppression....extreme violence not unusual.
Just ask the miners, protestors, football fans, new age travellers etc.
In fact, for pure brutality, the battle of the beanfield made Orgreave look like a tea party.

Orgreave and Beanfield should have got Alan Bates/Post Office level coverage decades ago.

I guess crusties and beardy miners make better folkdevils for RW press than nice middle class subpostmasters

Only found out recently that during the miners strike me dad used to bring the lads on the picket lines in keresley colliery bottles of whisky and brandy