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Originally Posted by g jones
I think a leak occured not long after and it was also confirmed in autobiographies that it was revenge for 1974. It was all premeditated. Foreign imports piled high in Spring. Deliberate breakdown in relations. Restrictive union legislation brought in just before hand.
It was all uneccessary. Britains pits produced Europe's cheapest coal but the Germans and Poles (which was communist anyway) were subsidising theirs.
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Yeah....subsidy on Ruhr miners was running at about £60k per head per annum..half if which came from the FDR, the other half from the EEC, aka the British Taxpayer.
My most abiding memory of the 84/85 strike was being on Sheffield railway station just after Christmas of '84, waiting for the London train. The temperature was about 10c below...a couple of hundred people were waiting on the platform and a train was there - but no one was allowed to board - with the exception of one man. There were an awful lot of very cold women and children on that platform, yet Comrade Scargill took advantage of his position and his union friends in the NUR to take a nice, warm seat while everone else had to wait outside.
This country would be a far better place now if we still had some pits...but the simple fact is that it was Scargill who called the strike and Scargill who destroyed the coal industry and the NUM. He was a complete and utter Yorkshire Communist s**t and the only tragedy is that he was not blown up in a coal pit explosion years ago.