Cry me a River....handing the Tories victory in 84/85 and then being betrayed by them. Who'd have thought it.....

As a S/Yorks mineworker I spent a year on strike in '84. Looking back now it's easy to see we were all pawns in a huge political game. The govt used classic divide & rule tactics. Miner turned against miner when we should have all been united in a common cause. I'm proud to have stood up for what I believed in, I don't have hatred for Notts miners or the deputies who could have stopped all pits. But the tories & thatcher, I'll hate them til the day I die.

Didn't have the guts to fight in 1984, didn't even have the guts to fight in 1992, now listen to them squeal about how unfair the government is for closing down their pit. As for Thatcher's best buddy at the time, Roy Lynk. and his comical one man stay down and his "Iv'e been shafted" squeal....you sure have Roy and well deserved it was too.

Arthur Scargill Was Right In Everything He Said In The 1984/85 Miners Strike And The Nottingham Miners Should Have Listened To Arthur And Backed The Strike And Saved The Mining Industry.

Should’ve come out in 84!

They should have filled the shafts in while lynk was still underground.

Well done Michael Clark, 👏 you foresaw what we are seeing now, coal is cheaper, gas running out, the consumer pays the price we rely on Russia.

Trusted the Tories, scabbed the strike & got what they deserved.

You'll be alright boys, your UDM will look after you. Should have come out with the NUM in the first place.

Should have join me on the picket line,

The rush for gas was a massive mistake, emptied entire gas fields in in only 5 years which should have lasted 30 years.

Thanks UDM, you helped keep Thatcher in power and you got what you deserved

As a derbyshire miner who was on strike.. once a scab owes a scab you betrayed was your fellow num miners rot in hell with Thatcher

Did Lynk hand his OBE back,or was it just bullshit for the TV cameras?

I wonder what we would have done differently in 1992 if we could have looked forward to 2021 and seen the dog's dinner of an energy policy we now have.

Silverhill coal seams were only 4 feet thick at the

Stuffed by the Thatcher government that they supported, I won't say that it served them right, but living proof that what goes around comes around in the end. Sad for all those that lost their jobs.

How do the former miners who crossed picket lines feel that they were shafted and betrayed? Do they feel shamed for working through the strike? Regardless of the ballot waffle thy they come out with solidarity always comes first, also in 1981 when the NUM held a national ballot Notts miners voted against strike action.

what happened was the death of the miners, communities, a disgrace

Didnt the turncoat lee anderson now a tory stand on the picket lines? he seems to get the tag "scab" a fair bit