It was thirty years ago...

[chalky-ncfc]

This month that the miners strike started...

Thirty(30)years later and we still get the "scab" chant at matches by supporters who at best was in their nappies in eightyfour(84)...

Thirty(30) years later and there are still rifts in families about what happened in Notts all those years ago,its a very sad situation...

It could have all been avoided if Scargill had done the proper thing and put the strike to a national vote instead of ordering "everybody out" because he was having a spat with Thatcher...

Sad days indeed...

[Sir_Judd]

NUMskulls

[griff]

Haw chalky, can't you get the tazzmeister an job as an porter in your hospital? Pushing could be better for his leg that lifting and I'm sure you could keep him away from the formaldehyde. It could be the making off of him.

[Markovitch]

Starting a miners strike in the hottest summer for God knows how many years

[just_joe]

The real tragedy was the weakening of the unions, as the wealthy tory masses cheered on.

Today, most working class and middle class people have seen no real increase in income since then, while the rich have prospered and their wealth grown.

If strong unions hadn't been destroyed by the tories and you who voted for them, do you think the working and middle class might have a better deal now?

You better believe it.

[moorlad]

I were in basic training during the strike, and the police (to intercept flying pickets) were given all the best barrack blocks leaving recruits in the condemned ones. 1976 was hotter.

Scargill was correct about what he thought Thatcher wanted, but he was as stubborn as her.

[just_joe]

He of'd terrible, terrible hair, though. A very unfortunate looking individual, on the whole. Painful to look at, really.

[moorlad]

He of'd terrible, terrible hair, though. A very unfortunate looking individual, on the whole. Painful to look at, really.

Aye, no oil painting.

He was right about the consequences as well though.

Thatcher's aim was to crush the unions in order to facilitate the relinquishing off of control off of state owned heavy industry. She believed this would kick start the free market economy she were after. She never cared that a by-product off of that was what Scargill predicted, the destruction off of heavy industry and the annihilation off of communities all over the north off of Britain.

Both were right. Unfortunately Scargill being right introduced the country to the greed culture Thatcher's policies were bound to start, and did away with any lingering sense off of community remaining in the UK. The problems with the economy today can all be traced to Thatcher's tenure, the country is devoid o