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Things that may be true about GOT members

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It's just like having money in a high interest account......
yes but the really important thing is we can put the woolybacks down holes again and get them off jerermy kyle shows...... all joking apart the cost to the communitys around the country must far outweigh any gains we made from cheap coal... edit i said we i ment they.
 
yes but the really important thing is we can put the woolybacks down holes again and get them off jerermy kyle shows...... all joking apart the cost to the communitys around the country must far outweigh any gains we made from cheap coal... edit i said we i ment they.

Everybody can see the adverse effect the closure of the mines had on families everywhere across mining communities,,, be it south wales or yorkshire or anywhere else.... poor Bigmaclad had to wear a donkey jacket until 1998 and the he was handed a second hand shell suit... spare a thought lids ffs.
 
GOT never ceases to amaze me in terms of the contributions of individual posters and the directions in which threads go - well done all!
 
GOT never ceases to amaze me in terms of the contributions of individual posters and the directions in which threads go - well done all!
I'm just short of 37 years old now and I still don't understand all the reasons for shutting the coalmines across the UK.... maybe I am a cynic but I'm sure the Tory government at the time had the same thinking as I do although on a more complex scale...... should we deplete all of our reserves we become politically infertile in the big scheme of things and that could never happen.
 
I'm just short of 37 years old now and I still don't understand all the reasons for shutting the coalmines across the UK.... maybe I am a cynic but I'm sure the Tory government at the time had the same thinking as I do although on a more complex scale...... should we deplete all of our reserves we become politically infertile in the big scheme of things and that could never happen.

It was politics mate, pure and simple. Fight to the death between Thatcher and Scargill. Of course they both did very nicely out of it......
 

Sorry Pete but how exactly did Arthur Scargill do well out of the 1984 Miners strike?
not from the strike but his dealing since are rather shady, his court case agaist his own union over a london flat that was costing £36,000 plus expences for life, and the £26.000 a year the yorkshire branch of the union were paying him out of a fund set up for former miners,, despite not doing little or no work for it ( in fact a lot of them didnt know he did anything at all), he went to court to sue them when they refused to buy him a car out of the fund ,you could go on the rat.
 
not from the strike but his dealing since are rather shady, his court case agaist his own union over a london flat that was costing £36,000 plus expences for life, and the £26.000 a year the yorkshire branch of the union were paying him out of a fund set up for former miners,, despite not doing little or no work for it ( in fact a lot of them didnt know he did anything at all), he went to court to sue them when they refused to buy him a car out of the fund ,you could go on the rat.

So therefore he did not benefit directly from the miners strike, and the disputes you mention above are contractual employment disputes between an employee and employer, as yet not determined by the Courts.
 
I was going to bump this thread, but as I've got no idea what the latest post means, I won't.

I had an opinion about coal production, but it doesn't matter. Maybe another time
 


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