The Government and Police, they’ve destroyed parts of North Notts and South Yorks for cheaper foreign coal and a politcal ideology, it failed, a enquiry will take place at some point, they know this but want more of the senior police and establishment to be dead when it does.
Wouldn’t really disagree with any of that, Bazza, but I would make some further points. Thatcher was pretty sneaky. Her objective was to destroy the unions. She went for the industry that underpinned them instead, knowing that if it did not exist, the unions eventually wouldn’t hold sway over it either.
The Miner’s strike also saw cynical deployments of Southern coppers to sort Northern strikes when the local bobbies wouldn’t all play ball. In many respects, it also changed the nature of the relationship between the police and the public. The enemy was declared within. Once Thatcher had set the coppers loose once, the genie was forever out of the bottle.
Shameful that they’ve rejected this, but predictable. May’s government doesn’t have the swagger that Cameron’s does. It would not be as comfortable or secure about taking historical sin on the chin.
Many Northern scab coppers bought their houses from the strike Pap, Nottingham is known as scab city for the workers who continued to work and not bring their union in to the dispute, Thatcher did want this but in the long term it has fucked her legacy up and she will always be a cunt to many, I actually have respect for her even though she is a complete and utter cunt.
Not going to get in the way of a rant but surely the lack of economically extracting the natural resources required for the profession at hand has had something to do with it as well??
It backfired though as the argument put up was one of “it’s cheaper to import foreign coal from Germany and Poland”. Trouble is when the UK mining industry was in tatters, then the Poles and the Jerries put their prices up on UK imports. So that argument didn’t work very well, but as Pap says, it was more an attempt to dilute union power than provide cheaper coal.
However, this call for an Inquiry is a strange one whilst a Tory Govnt is in power. Why wasn’t it called for during Blair / Brown years of Labour Govnt (or have i missed something)? Surely there would have been more chance of success?
Because it turns out that Labour wasn’t actually the Labour Party at all in the Blair/Browns years just pc facists who hated the working man, at least Thatcher was honest in her hatred for the poor and vulnerable.
This is why we keep all the contentious stuff offline, to keep the counter-revolutionaries off guard.
Our most sensitive documents are heavily encoded. To read them, you must wait until the light hits them at a certain angle at a certain spot in the South Western Arms. For all Goat’s pre-arrest finger-pointing, he is one of the keepers of this sacred knowledge.
Sometimes sacrifices have to be made and as us goats usually get the pointy end of the sticky thing, I thought I’d volunteer matey in the slacks and flowery shirt.
Rest assured pap, I won’t be telling anyone about the secret corner and the antlers of joy.