Amanda Rudd announces there will be NO inquiry into the Miners strike.
Quite right too, who can remember details from 1983/4? I wasn’t actually there but I was involved with the WVS in preparing food for the police when they arrived back at the barracks in the evening. We could hold enquiries into many things that happened in the past, there come a time time when it has to stop.
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Preparing food for the police?
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Yep!
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You remind me of a comedian “Oscar Schindler and I have much in common. We both made artillery shells for the Germans. At least my ones worked…”
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Orgreave was only two or three years before Hillsborough and it was the same lying police force, the South Yorkshire, who were then proved to be totally corrupt. I can’t see them changing from a decent honest force into the cess pit they had become (and still are) only a very few years later.
Another miserable cock-up by Amber Rudderless. She should be fired pretty damn quick.
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There were thousands of police, most forces came from all round the country, they were bussed in on Sunday nights and slept on camp beds in the barracks used by the reserve army. The Yorkshire police did not have thousands of officers. One miner used a motorway bridge to drop a large stone onto a car, killing the driver.
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I wish had your confidence in the police, Rosie, but at the time, I had a certain amount of sympathy with the miners, though I think Arthur Scargill had his own agenda.
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Thanks for the photograph, but you couldn’t see which police force he belonged to.
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This is true, Rosie, it was not meant as a criticism of you. But it is a very iconic photograph of the time. I happen to think that it was necessary to curb the power of the unions but it caused enormous bitterness in the mining community.
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I remember the bridge incident well.
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‘…enormous bitterness in the mining community.’
It might have been different if Scargill hadn’t thought it unnecessary to hold a ballot. Arrogance, sheer arrogance.
And anyway, what was so special about miners? We could import South African coal at a fraction of the home-grown stuff. Were we supposed to subsidise them? Why?
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Yes, I agree, and no, it was necessary but I understand the bitterness from the miners who lost their livelihood. They were betrayed by Scargill, but hated Thatcher.
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They had it coming. Payback for the 70s.
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But the South Yorkshire police are in the frame today.
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The zMiners strike didn’t involve just the Yorkshire police, it involved many police forces. The Hillsborough incident was Yorkshire police only.
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That was South Wales. It is like South Armagh but more coal.
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Socialism destroys.
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