11-03-2013, 12:14 PM
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Re: Arthur Scargill - the miners' hero.
However you feel about the miners on a personal level, the question must be what other course of action could there be when an industry is producing something that is no longer needed?Should we have kept paying the miners to produce millions of tons of coal which no-one could afford to burn? Many industries have boomed and then become redundant through progress on other fronts, and those industries have been killed off by that progress. What makes the miners' case any different ?
As for Scargill I doubt many people will mourn him, he was a bully first and a fool second. "Lions led by donkeys" was the phrase often used at the time I believe...
11-03-2013, 01:28 PM
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Re: Arthur Scargill - the miners' hero.
No - I am no fan of Scargill - never was....My comment was to support 'all' miners worldwide - I have the greatest respect for them. As for miners here - of course you are right, no call for coal now, so had to be. I just wish they had been respected for all the sweat and toil all those years before. In other countries the 'fat cats' benefit from their labour - for the miners absolutely no change...
11-03-2013, 01:38 PM
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Re: Arthur Scargill - the miners' hero.
The trouble with the Mining industry its is only found in certain places.This means if its next door to your village thats where you went to
work even when you were 8 years old if you look into the Ancestry.
Thats why the death of the industry in GB was so hard on communities
that had relied on that work for centuraries in alot of cases.
They of course do a fantastic job. Who would want to spend 8 hours
underground everyday. I wouldnt want to spend one hour. The
Government was to blame in this Country by closing down so many pits
all at once before putting other kinds of work on offer for the redundant
Miners. Thats why there are still problems in certain areas of the
Country even now decades later.
Thats my opinion and I am sticking to it.
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