That was really awkward! He had the right to express that opinion.

@@LGN388 Aye it was, I very much enjoyed it until she rudely cut him off. I have a different opinion of this lady now.

He got completely shutdown there. Unbelievable.

@@westerncherokeewireless642 she cuts him off the whole way through the man who speaks of losing babies in childbirth and how they had to take a deceased miner home in a cart.

@@westerncherokeewireless642 She is Michael Parkinson`s wife.

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@Jaime Richard yea, I have been using flixzone} for years myself :D

@@jaimerichard3681 what has that got to do with this video?

@@josephlewis347 does that have anything to do with this video?

Right!

Sad

That happened because journalists were and still are one of the filthiest sort of servants of power. Period. Everywhere in the world! Puah.

Such a shame she didn't write and publish her memoirs, what a fantastic book that would be to read

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hpaPiJSe28DGcok.html. This lady is also in a Christmas edition of the show. Salt of the earth! God bless them all.

That is so heartbreaking. I hope his family was compensated for loss of income, but I wouldn’t hold my breath 😢

That's awful 😢

​@yasminm7157 they didn't get compensation in those days, nothing at all. If they lived in a house owned by the coal board there's story's of widows with children been made to leave within 2 weeks of the miner being killed. We today cannot even really fathom the lives they had or lived. Absolute heros all 3 of them.

The 70ts

Good luck then hippy!!🤣

Be careful… that sounds like communism 🙀

You're spot on Gillian. God told us how to treat each other for good reason because it's the only way the world will function correctly.

Well said. Since the closure of the mines the UK has gone to the dogs, rich dogs, multinational dogs, who care only to make money from their already vast amounts of it they have stockpiled, oft in offshore accounts, so they do not have to pay taxes and contribute to a crumbling society. The Lord said treat thy neighbour as thyself, and in many of those mining and working class towns, many folk pulled it off, until the rug was pulled from beneath their feet, as they did not fit in with the rich man's plans. The laws of karma will send shudders through humanity very soon, for the wrong in the world. And all we had to do was love one another, in its truest sense. SAD.@@Mandaxx25

Are you nine?

Yes, and now the Conservative Party supports new mines and the Labour Party opposes them. Thatcher was the greatest de-industrialised person ever! Crazy how times change

​@@kincaidwolf5184 To a degree you are right about Thatcher, but don't forget Labour closed far more pits than the Tories did.

Churchill was correct to support eugenics.

They sure don’t make ‘em like that anymore 👊🏼👏🏼

The coal dust tattoo his head

Yes, I saw plenty of blue scars in the pit showers, perhaps that's why many miners obtained tatoos, to cover up the oft deep, and long scars.@@oreogavinthecat5025

Where did he go?

I’d say they’d have plenty of stories to tell. I’d say Edna has probably sadly passed away by now?

Wow!! If you don’t mind me asking, when was Edna born? Edna comes across a lovely, loving lady x

@@jamesb1647 1910.

Is this is Yorkshire

Probably. Mary Parkinson lived in Barnsley with Michael who just passed. Most of the pits were around there.@@SQP-bf4yg

Burton disabled his own brother.

Or the ones that need a safe space or that cry because you didn't play pretend with them about being a man when they're a woman etc. None of that shyte back in those days. People were too poor to think about that crap.

@@basilmagnanimous7011 I think what you're disregarding is the advances in technology that dragged third world countries up with us. We couldn't communicate nearly as easily. You know really that these other countries are prospering now because we have for so long and the world is becoming an even ground for most. Some longer than others. Your whole ideology is nonsense backed by our own racisms and sexisms. You are wrong in thinking a white policy or a European superiority would still be happening today, in any one of your make belief worlds. People just dont see colour like you do or where they're from, people just don't care. At the end of the day, we didn't want to work slave labour brutish jobs anymore and we've escaped that. If the cost of that is a closer planet so be it but you're really quite wrong about it all as far as I see it. You sit there believing these uber intelligent sorts who died in the war, undoubtedly the sons of the rich, wouldn't want us all cleaning their boots! You should be more grateful at those lesser than you screaming for you to be able to sit there now and write that huge comment. And you asked how its working out for america. Really well actually. All this stupid news that comes from America is because they really can all talk about what they want, vote who they want and live at a bare minimum, a comfortable existence. There's way more variables to the world than you've listed and I am sorry you have inherent traits that make you think you are superior to anyone.

As if any dog these days would be subjected to such things. People are nuts remember. They give their dogs more than their own kids.

@@Mandaxx25Sadly so true 🤢

Some call it white privilege.

It highlights how the human spirit pulls together in tough times. I was there in a mining village in the late 50s and 60s, when rationing had only just stopped, and many people's lives were still affected by the grief of two world wars, and the hundreds lost to explosions, and poor conditions in the pits. It is a feeling that is hard to put on paper, but there was always a sense it could be your last day, the men and women were born to work, and graft, the surroundings were austere, all were tough, yet ironically, many were unusually kind and conscious of the need to help one's neighbours. What is sad is the immense human suffering it took to forge such wonderful communities.

My grandma was on the top at 8-9, illiterate, at the pit that caused the Strike...Cortonwood. Lived on a pit estate next to it, called the Concrete, it was as ahrd as it sounds! Few hundred yards away was a mine called Lundhill, which blew up along with a spate of other mines in the late 1850s, leaving most of the women in the pit village without husbands, brothers and sons. Hundreds were killed in those days!

I would say many of us know what hard work is. just because it looks different than it did in the early 1900s doesn't mean it's less difficult. have you ever worked in fast food? that's hard fucking work. working in retail is a nightmare. there are so many difficult jobs. just because some work isn't as physically demanding doesn't mean it's any less exploitative or demanding in other ways. don't put yourself at risk of believing that workers have it easy or easier today. for the things that are easier (because there are things that are objectively better than before), they're only so because they were fought for and because people keep fighting for them. and don't unintentionally demean the people around you by claiming they don't know how to work hard. that would be a cruel and a rude thing to do.

@@sethescope I was a chef for over 6 years on terrible money for the work and hours I put in, I also worked in retail straight from school which was shit. My job now is mentally straining but I’m not sure how you can compare working in fast food to going down a pit, sure they can both be hard but I know which one I would rather do. I’m not sure where you’re from but you only need to step outside or turn the tv on to realise a lot of this generation don’t know, or don’t want to know hard work and have it a lot easier than families did back then and before you say it, yes I do know there’s people out there still struggling etc. I thought you would be able to work out that obviously I know there are hard workers of any age out there, the guys I work with work hard, they’re just outnumbered. You’re telling me not to do something like I have to listen? I will continue to think the way I do because unfortunately that’s how it is.

@@jwoodzy3764 I apologize for not being clearer that I wasn't trying to attack you or something; given that this is the KZfaq comments, I can't exactly blame you for defaulting to defensiveness and insulting me when that's basically how it works here lol it's just exhausting to constantly see "kids these days have it so easy!!!!" as though modern people are just so fucking lazy and weak and we have no idea what it means to work hard. yeah, our lives are much different and thank god many of us don't work in conditions like coal mines, although it's absolutely incorrect to say that No One™️ does. I'm not saying you're saying this in such a broad way, but it deserves to be said that working conditions depend on class, geographical location, immigration status in one's location, etc I just wholeheartedly reject this idea that people have it easy today. and if you're in a place where you can accept feedback, defaulting to "go outside and touch grass" makes it seem like you're not ready to contend with an alternative viewpoint. it makes it seem like you can't tolerate the idea that someone else might have a legitimate point, even if you disagree. I'm just offering this feedback so, if you're in a place where you're ready for it, you can consider refining your approach to disagreement with people you don't know anything about. hopefully this helps clarify. again, it's not like I can blame you for going on the attack immediately considering this is KZfaq.

I have worked in fast food, retail, on building sites as a labourer, in factories and a foundry. And none of it comes close to the work these guys had to do in the conditions they did.

The reason things are no where near as bad now is simple- fights hard won by the unions. Support those striking now for fair pay and conditions as while things may not appear as hard, those at the top still want to cut corners and keep the money to themselves, just like what Bob was trying to say at the end when he was cut off

If you think Corbyn let it down than you have no idea about labour sir Ker is the disgrace NOT corbyn

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Kinnock...and plenty of others! It will not be forgotten!

Never mind the workers, the bosses are still at it.

It's Mary Parkinson, she's from a working class mining town herself, Doncaster

@@mitchamcommonfair9543 yes, and?

Tom D I thought the same about her but couldn't have articulated it as perfectly as you have.

Well they aren’t talking about the 1970s. They are clearly elderly people speaking about times past such as the earlier part of the century. These people are here in their 70s in the 1970s. So do the math.

Out to send you down there. See how long your smart attitude would last. My relatives were at the other end of the food chain. Mine owners in Wales and Australia.

These were people who lived through shit. This wasn't a comedy sketch. 50 years ago if you had made your statement in public in a mining area you would have been kicked senseless. Mind you in your case that might have not taken much effort.

They're dignity and humility are clearly lost upon your immature lack of respect.

Rainblazer

...while I realise this’ll likely fall on ‘blind eyes’, this interview was 1973, and at whatever age these gentlemen were, surely they didn’t start working in 1964,’at 14’; likely maaany years before....

They are probably referring to working in the mines in the 1930s and 1940s. If not earlier.

They are reflecting upon they're earlier introduction to mining as mere boys in the 1930s. Mrs Brannan actually cites the Bentley pit disaster of 1932 when a 22 year old was killed and his body was never recovered. There's no doubt their accounts are accurate and genuine. Way before your time by 30 odd years before the impact of Trade Unions and post ww2 reforms. improvements

You’re in a different timeframe altogether.

They're retired and speaking in 1973, so they would have probably started in the 1930s.

Has it occurred to you that this was the only work available. It was a matter of working down the pit or seeing you family suffer in hunger and poverty. These men were heroes!

You've never been hungry, have you?

What a foolish response to their hard work, our society wouldn’t be a fraction of what it is today without them fuelling us for so many years!

Its a comment like that , that makes me think Andrew tates right about you 🤣

I'm very glad that you have never experienced poverty or seemingly any material suffering. I'm glad you have never been in a position where you or the people around you have never had to choose between physical safety and survival. you are very lucky, and while your luck might mean that you haven't developed the capacity yet to practice critical thinking, I'm still glad that you've never at least been in danger of starving or dying.