Orgreave-29th May 1984
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- To remember the Miners Strike of a quarter of a century ago, I thought that I would upload this news coverage of the pivotal moment in what was a pivotal action in recent British History. After Orgreave it was pretty much downhill for the miners. The result: decimated communities, fractured families, alcohilism, suicides and a final move into the monetarist policies of the Thatcher government. It is curious that there are those out there that believe that the defeat of the miners was a victory for democracy. Of course what they mean is that it was a victory for those of you who champion economic viability above everything else - and look where that has led us: decimated communities, fractured families, alcoholism, suicides and blandness. But hey, what the fuck! We are richer!
2.20 there's that bastard who was in charge of Hillsborough too
another cover up
MY granddad was a miner at the Rossington Pit. Their communities WERE proper communities. Now it is crack heads and smack heads, disillusion. I doubt these communities will ever recover. New Rossington was built purely for the colliery. The coal miners should never have been treated so badly, risking their lives every day for no great wage. RESPECT for miners of coal, lead, whatever!
My grandads town in wales is just the same, not so much drugs, but chronic youth unemployment, everyone with sense has had to leave the community and only drunken idleness remains, and thats from a town which produced some of the finest welsh rugby players in times gone by, the only thing left now are old people taking their pensions and people who work in the brand spanking new refuse tip, which is basically the only employer now
They were not proper communities. They were loss-making communities that were kept afloat by sucking up taxpayer subsidies to keep open loss-making mines. If the taxpayer money had been withdrawn, all those pits would have collapsed on their own anyway. That is the natural order of market based economics, the old businesses that can no longer turn a profit are closed down and new, more efficient businesses take their place. Keeping loss making enterprises open is a recipe for economic suicide. It's a shame they don't teach that in schools.
@@phils2335 Have to agree with you there. Rather than adapt to the changing times, they gave up, blamed their situation on everyone but themselves and now their offspring are drunks or junkies.
Keep up the pressure look what happened with the Hillsboro disaster ; years and years eventually the truth will come out ..
Total respect to the miners. You can't subsidize coal according to the Tories but you can subsidize the housing market......LOL.......
Do you know who broadcast this report?
The men that worked underground were kept in the dark in more ways than one.
What a load of bollocks, so much made up stuff in that report.
hi, whose coverage was this? BBC?
umm why is someone doing the nazi salute 0:09??!!!!
So is this where British Industry and work ethic died?
Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.
Skargill's fault. If he hadn't had fought so aggressively against Heaths government Thatcher wouldn't have had to have been so tough
bull
Lets not forget the fucking truckers..........
I'm a trucker
theres another of these on itn archive showing union coming out of office.
and so say all of us
It is a fact well known now though, that Harold Wilson closed many more pits than Mrs.Thatcher ever did. At one point in time he was closing three pits a week. Why didn't anyone strike then? - and why oh why did anyone ever listen to Arthur Scargill? Time has shown just how bad he really was.
That was called streamlining the industry by getting rid of defunct outdated pits and relocating workers to more modern mines. Thatchers plan was to decimate an industry for political gain, different thing.
Whilst it's true that Wilson closed more pits than Thatcher, Wilson's government made sure that miners were transferred to other jobs - Thatcher didn't.
David Wilkie? He was murdered by two miners who threw a concrete block on to his taxi from a bridge because he was taking a non striking miner to work! they later had in our stupid system their sentences reduced to manslaughter and served just 4 years for MURDER! Was this an organised campaign by the NUM of South Wales for targeting bus and taxi drivers for violence and intimidation.
Kim Howells, the South Wales NUM official and who later became a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party in 2004! "said that when he heard that a taxi driver had been killed, he thought "hang on, we've got all those records we've kept over in the NUM offices, there's all those maps on the wall, we're gonna get implicated in this". He then destroyed "everything!!!!, because he feared a police raid on the union offices! FACT! If people want any inquiry about what happened in Orgreave then should there not be an independent inquiry in to the conduct of the NUM and the murder of David Wilkie a taxi driver just doing his JOB?
@southsieed Thatcher stands against Communism?
I think you got your history wrong there. Communism nor Thatcher stands for nothing good.
i have to laugh at the ipcc decision that because of the passage of time and we cant sanction for what should have been done then they will take no action against serving police officers back then,when you hear continually now police charging and wholeheartedly telling you to report historical crime. I say bring em out of retirement and charge them.
yeah tell that to the banks
Who's freedom?
so 5000 pickets turn up at a coking plant to shut it down and the police are the bandies for enforcing the law and rights of the workers in this plant, its a joke i understand there maybe an enquiry now if Corbyn is elected well i hope it is to also prosecute those pickets that regarded extreme violence as a legitimate right, the police only stood up to those thugs who thought they had the right to bully people and anyone who thought that the police would send only a couple of offices to control a mob of 5000 miners is an idiot and they got all they deserved people like scargill had no interest in miners he just used them as pawns in his anti government agenda as history has now shown he retired on a fat pension and benefits paid for by union funds and he was paid while miners relied on handouts union officials should only get strike pay like the rest ,any misdemeanours by police should be prosecuted as justice should also prosecute miners who broke the law
Agree with you.But don't forget about drug abuse either.
Maggots, maggots, maggots
Yum, yum, yum!
Margaret Thatcher
Arthur scargill
It was a nice summer's day, shoulda gone for a walk in the park instead...
ultra right wing state and police
Sheesh
Scargill drove the Union off a cliff.
scabs and thugs
Then git rid of capitalism and an economy that relies on profit, which has an in-built tendency to fall