BBC World Service - Miners Strikes

[daftlad]

Scargill was worth a 100 Margaret Thatchers. She lied about the level of pit closures, that Scargill had said she wanted to close. She was one big bully. You only have to also look at the Hillsborough enquiry where cops were told to change evidence to show what an immoral person she was. Thank heavens she is dead, Englands a better place without her in it

[Penistone999]

Scargill was worth a 100 Margaret Thatchers. She lied about the level of pit closures, that Scargill had said she wanted to close. She was one big bully. You only have to also look at the Hillsborough enquiry where cops were told to change evidence to show what an immoral person she was. Thank heavens she is dead, Englands a better place without her in it

 

Scargill had got too big for his boots ,and was trying to bully the government and dictate government policy . Scargills big mistake was he underestimated The Great Lady . He wrongly assumed she would roll over and cave in . Grave mistake. He led the miners like Lambs to the slaughter . He had to be stopped and was duly crushed by the Great Lady . You cannot have unions who think they can bully governments . Scargill bit off a lot more than he could chew when he took on Mrs Thatcher ,and his members suffered the consequences of his actions, not scargill himself. He`s ok , nice comfy lifestyle , nice homes , nice pension. It was their own leader who shafted the miners.

[cuttsie]

Worked for everything ive got . I started with nowt .

And like rest of us thats what you will end up with.

 

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No , never been a miner, but I have no time what so ever for that fool Scargill or any trade union. Unions are poison , there purely to try and hold Governments and employers to ramsom. Scargill picked on the wrong Prime Minister when he tried to take on Mrs Thatcher. He thought she would roll over and let the union bully here Government. Bad mistake by Scargill ,and his massive ego and stupidity cost thousands of men their jobs.

 

Perhaps you should have been a Sheffield grinder in the 1930's bent or a grinding wheel filling your lungs with dust and ****e when any minute the stone could explode in your face and take your head off.

Or in the building trade working on unsafe scaffold or down a twenty foot deep unshored trench [either do it or pith of].

Or in a rolling mill with no safety barriers in place where you can get strip steel wrapped around your legs.

 

Or in service to the rich and again if you fell ill then bad luck as there is plenty more idiots where you come from.

 

And last but not least you could have been in the bowels of the earth digging coal day after day risking the very ground above to fall and crush you or a gas explosion to blow you to kingdom come or as in my village a fire to burn 90 of your work mates to death.

I could go on but blokes like you make me ashamed to be part of the human race .

If it was not for the unions all of the above would still be happening and in some instances it still is.

[Anna B]

Scargill had got too big for his boots ,and was trying to bully the government and dictate government policy . Scargills big mistake was he underestimated The Great Lady . He wrongly assumed she would roll over and cave in . Grave mistake. He led the miners like Lambs to the slaughter . He had to be stopped and was duly crushed by the Great Lady . You cannot have unions who think they can bully governments . Scargill bit off a lot more than he could chew when he took on Mrs Thatcher ,and his members suffered the consequences of his actions, not scargill himself. He`s ok , nice comfy lifestyle , nice homes , nice pension. It was their own leader who shafted the miners.

 

And yet you don't seem to object to the bankers getting too big for their boots, bullying governments and dictating government policy. The only difference as far as I can see is the results of the Unions labours was shared among many, whereas the bankers bonuses are shared among few.

[ricgem2002]

Scargill had got too big for his boots ,and was trying to bully the government and dictate government policy . Scargills big mistake was he underestimated The Great Lady . He wrongly assumed she would roll over and cave in . Grave mistake. He led the miners like Lambs to the slaughter . He had to be stopped and was duly crushed by the Great Lady . You cannot have unions who think they can bully governments . Scargill bit off a lot more than he could chew when he took on Mrs Thatcher ,and his members suffered the consequences of his actions, not scargill himself. He`s ok , nice comfy lifestyle , nice homes , nice pension. It was their own leader who shafted the miners.

I wonder how many of your tenants are on zero hours contract

[Mecky]

I don't see Scargill as being to big for his boots. What he did was to try and protect the industry and communities that were dependant on the industry. You can argue what you want about his tatics but in the end he was right about what was happening to the industry as was proved in the leaked reports the other week.