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Previously on "UK’s Labour would cost companies £300bn in workers’ share swipe"

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  • JohntheBike
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    Originally posted by NigelJK View Post
    Or the bricks thrown from bridges?
    it was a bit bigger wasn't it?

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    Do you also remember the police going in on horseback at Orgreave?
    They should've sent the tanks in, never mind the horses!

    Still, my dad made a shed load of overtime out of the miners strike

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  • NigelJK
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    Or the bricks thrown from bridges?

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by NigelJK View Post
    FTFY, I remember it also.

    Do you also remember the police going in on horseback at Orgreave?

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  • NigelJK
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    where ordinary people got their heads kicked in for being a black leg in an un-balloted strike
    FTFY, I remember it also.

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  • JohntheBike
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    Did you hold the opinion?
    the opinion that I held on both strikes was that both Sirs and Scargill were a little less street wise than they should have been.

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  • meridian
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    UK’s Labour would cost companies £300bn in workers’ share swipe

    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    boo hoo

    maggies child here too.

    Repeatedly made a job for myself and enjoyed prosperity. Keep on blaming others for your misfortune. Its yours!
    What do you mean “too”? I didn’t arrive in the U.K. until the 90’s, Maggie is all yours....

    You’re missing the point of my (limited) soclalism. I’ve been a conservative voter most of my life, but I can still have empathy with others that are not as fortunate and rely on labour legislation to protect them.

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by JohntheBike View Post
    It was an opinion held by many
    Did you hold the opinion?

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  • JohntheBike
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    No there wasn’t, John. You made it up, like all your dull opinions, dull trolling, etc.
    I was working in the steel industry in 1980 and a member of ISTC. It was an opinion held by many of the conduct of Bill Sirs. Other colleagues expressed the same opinion about Scargill. Were you alive and working at that time?

    Arthur's interview poses questions - Paul Routledge - Mirror Online

    Also, for your information, the middle and senior management branch of ISTC did not vote for the steel strike in 1980
    Last edited by JohntheBike; 4 September 2019, 08:27.

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by JohntheDull View Post
    There was a suggestion...

    No there wasn’t, John. You made it up, like all your dull opinions, dull trolling, etc.

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  • JohntheBike
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    Originally posted by meridian View Post
    You’re right, I wasn’t brought brought up under a communist regime.

    I was brought up in the 70s and 80s where workers had to go on strike for hard-fought rights, where ordinary people got their heads kicked in for daring to ask for a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work.

    So perhaps wannabe totalitarians like yourself should be grateful that others have fought for the rights that you are so keen to enjoy, but want to deny to others.
    There was a suggestion that both Bill Sirs (ISTC) and Arthur Scargill (NUM) were in league with Maggie as neither followed the wishes of a large proportion of their membership in calling their respective strikes and both didn't really have a cohesive plan. Maggie would have found great difficulty politically in making the redundancies which followed both strikes if it were not for those strikes.

    It should have been plain to Scargill that McGregor, who had orchestrated the steel industry changes, would do the same with the miners. Scargill was a fool to take him and Maggie on in the way that he did. I guess both men enjoyed their pensions.

    I have always laid the blame for the 1984 miners strike at the feet of Joe Gormley, who effectively brought down the Conservative Government in 1974. I said then that there would be repercussions, and Maggie proved so.

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
    You're effin' big bollocks when he's banned, aren't you? As soon as he's back you'll have your tongue rammed so far up his arse that sasguru will be creaming in his dungarees!

    Zig - in "just thought I'd lighten the mood" mode!
    Never were truer words spoken in jest.

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    Thus spake the man who blames the EU for everything that is wrong with the UK.
    You're effin' big bollocks when he's banned, aren't you? As soon as he's back you'll have your tongue rammed so far up his arse that sasguru will be creaming in his dungarees!

    Zig - in "just thought I'd lighten the mood" mode!

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    Keep on blaming others for your misfortune. Its yours!
    Thus spake the man who blames the EU for everything that is wrong with the UK.

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by meridian View Post
    You’re right, I wasn’t brought brought up under a communist regime.

    I was brought up in the 70s and 80s where workers had to go on strike for hard-fought rights, where ordinary people got their heads kicked in for daring to ask for a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work.

    So perhaps wannabe totalitarians like yourself should be grateful that others have fought for the rights that you are so keen to enjoy, but want to deny to others.
    Well maybe not communist but the labour of the 70's was pretty ******* close.

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