Miners, you are not forgotten.💔

Incredible that they called it a "strike" when the state deployed cavalry against working men. Different vocabulary for different classes.

I was born in 1970 and 14 at the time of the main event as depicted in this masterpiece of production that literally takes you back in time to a Britian, we wished we had back. I grew up in Scunthopre in a Council House.  Miners were f*****g heroes. and vital to domestic energy security for the nation.  Thatcher's Government were necessary in regard to the transformation required for Britan in the modern era, however, total belief in the free market, shareholders in charge of essential services and mass privatization I think can be proven to be a very, very bad idea in the long run! This documentary provides us with a very narrative spun at the time by Government and the media.

What we witnessed here was an undemocratic and unlawful domestic coup against miners and an ultimate betrayal of a once vital industry that provided cohesive and prosperous communities across the entire nation.  I know that change was required and that Thatcher was justified in some of the things she had to do in order to bring change to Britian. However, the speed, manner and utter cold manner in which these changes were introduced, completely intentional or not, from mass privatization, the sell off of all social housing without replacement stock, the total dependency of free market capitalism to name but a few, has undoubtedly brought  about that change........the question I ask  myself when I look at Britain today, so vastly different today, is was it for the better.....perhaps that is rhetorical!

Garry H
South Carolina
RAF Retired

lot of my family and pals were down the kent pits. I was on the hod so earnings well. use to go down the club ever weekend with cases of French larger. times were hard for them.  went on a march with my cousin Peter sweeting proper mad day

I was a copper in 1984 when the miners’ strike started and I was asked if I would like to go and help police it. I point blank refused.. as far as I
Was concerned Thatcher was the criminal. . She unlawfully sequestered their funds and unlawfully used the police to quash the miners. She was a wicked woman and should

never have been leader of this country, once known for justice and fair play. I will never forget her actions.  I subsequently heard that police
Officers  from the Met removed their shoulder numbers.  I would never call down evil on anyone but when she died people were dancing in the street.

Great documentary, just shows what happens when people stick together for others, Governments and the now called elites, will do anything to break the peoples will, using divide and conquer or as some call it "pick a side"  I would like to see all the documents showing which none UK companies had secret meetings with the UK Gov. Now of course the UK Gov still have no shame and no morals.

i tried hard to figure out the rights and wrongs with all this. i was a young mum at the time. i always tried to keep with the news. one thing i was told by the media was that these selected mines were  costing one pound a ton of coal  to dig up but only getting 50 pence  back from selling. miners seemed to think that was acceptable. mrs Thatcher didnt agree

I wish someone would upload the three episode channel 4 documentary. Can't watch it in the US

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A proud miner's daughter from Rhodesia, Notts. My father worked at Shireoaks pit. It infuriates me to this day that those miners kept this country running through two world wars should end up being hunted down by cudgel wielding police on horseback at the behest of Thatcher. Ruining stable communities across the country. When she died, and people were once again on the streets singing "ding dong the witch is dead" there was much pearl clutching from the MSM. I loathe them. Now Karma has shown them their rightful place, I stroke my beautiful pearls and write about them on the internet. Oh, and my 4yr old son came running into the kitchen to tell me "mummy come and see the monster". Of course he knew nothing about any of this, but my goodness his instinct was intact... there was Thatcher on the screen lecturing adults as usual.

The key points that come from this, the BBC are corrupt, the Government is corrupt.  It's happening all over again just different circumstances.

I'm amused at how his documentary spends about 17 seconds discussing the legality of the miner's strike foundation, and then over half an hour discussing grievances toward law enforcement breaking up a group of people trying to intimidate and bully people who want to work, regardless of their motivations, that's what they were doing.

What kind of job did they do after pit closed?

Handcuffed, an arm to a leg ?Is that even legal?

Workers united, will never ever be defeated!

Thatcher was hell-bent on crushing all working class power, setting the table for the corporate crony neoliberalism that took over.

Unions to this day are still delusional.