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From: vulgarandmischevious on 4 Mar 2010 21:07 Charlie <nospam(a)all.ta> wrote: >The miners' strike was ghastly, of course, but was provoked by >Scargill's swivel-eyed intransigence. It wasn't, you idiot.
From: Charlie on 5 Mar 2010 02:18 On 05/03/2010 02:07, vulgarandmischevious wrote: > Charlie<nospam(a)all.ta> wrote: > >> The miners' strike was ghastly, of course, but was provoked by >> Scargill's swivel-eyed intransigence. > > It wasn't, you idiot. Policy of some pit-closures announced, which would cost jobs. Instead of negotiating, strikes started immediately. No strike ballots were called, in defiance of the law (whatever you may think of that law). It escalated very quickly, and Scargill assumed that he could bring the country to a standstill. Aware of his nature, from bitter experience (!), gubmint had stockpiled coal and converted some power-stations to run on oil. It was his intransigence, fuelled by having whipped the Tories before, that ran the strike out for an entire year and brought about the complete destruction of the coal industry. Even The Guardian and Mirror, normally sympathetic to workers' rights, were against the strike, largely because of Scargill's refusal to back down from his entrenched position.
From: Ace on 5 Mar 2010 02:26 On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:07:13 -0700, vulgarandmischevious <vulgarandmischevious(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Charlie <nospam(a)all.ta> wrote: > >>The miners' strike was ghastly, of course, but was provoked by >>Scargill's swivel-eyed intransigence. > >It wasn't, you idiot. Certainly seemed that way at the time. Of course, we all know that he was actually just a pawn in Maggie's game of squahing the unions, or at least we've been told it so often it must be true. But she wouldn't have been able to get away with it if it weren't for twats like Scargill who thought they should be able to do as they pleased.
From: Mick Whittingham on 4 Mar 2010 15:49 In article <DdqdnUCa3YOZkQ3WnZ2dnUVZ7oydnZ2d(a)bt.com>, Charlie <nospam(a)all.ta> writes >On 04/03/2010 16:41, steve auvache wrote: > >And they were abandoned soon after WW2. We still don't have identity >cards, although the current mob want to impose them on us. > I'll wager it's a lot closer than you think if they got in again. -- Mick Whittingham 'and I will make it a felony to drink small beer.' William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2.
From: Charlie on 5 Mar 2010 04:07
On 04/03/2010 20:49, Mick Whittingham wrote: > In article <DdqdnUCa3YOZkQ3WnZ2dnUVZ7oydnZ2d(a)bt.com>, Charlie > <nospam(a)all.ta> writes >> On 04/03/2010 16:41, steve auvache wrote: > > >> >> And they were abandoned soon after WW2. We still don't have identity >> cards, although the current mob want to impose them on us. >> > > I'll wager it's a lot closer than you think if they got in again. I would be on the same side of that wager! |