Quote Originally Posted by Brin View Post
Animal...I've just watched part two but it ended far too early so I'll have to try and find it .....still very moving to me.
It's extremely moving Brin because we know that disaster happened on so many occasions .

It was a bloody dangerous job mate , our youth , the times of the day and our relative lack of life experiences didn't really register just how dangerous it was down there .

The generations who worked underground before us had it far worse of course .

" The Enemy Within " line is something I'll never forgive from that women and party .

Both her , her party and any other anti miners should be thankful anyone ever went down there at all for that kind of money to keep this country supplied with fuel .

I left the industry 30 years ago , my choice , it was never the same after the strike and I knew full well what was coming as we all did , I got out before I was competing with 30k others for a single job in my town and fuq the redundancy payout , best piece of advice my old man ever gave me .

The press we had after the strike still boils my blood , yeh we weren't angels I ain't going to say otherwise .

At the end of the day all we wanted to do was put food on the table and pay our bills and keep our jobs , fecking hell .

Left its mark on me though , makes me laugh when folk say move on etc etc , you do to a certain extent but it's never really left me and it never will , you'd have to go through that to understand and people who make those kind of comments never did .

The reason folk went down there everyday and what they were made of is the reason they fought so hard to retain it .

Something people outside of the industry never got .