As a final comment, I have to recall a conversation with a former work colleague and his wife, about 8 years ago who worked down a pit not too far from where I am sat now. His wife told me when they met, he was clearing into the bank £800 per week. He worked the coal face but by his own admission spent the majority of the shift asleep. If he was in the sick, he was paid full bonus as that is what the union had negotiated with the labour government to stop a proposed strike ! He also admitted that when a 36% pay rise was requested, even the miners thought it was a piss take but he went on strike like everybody else as that was how the vote went ! He told me the government could import coal from abroad, cheaper than we could manufacture it as a result. That is why we couldn’t let the unions continue like they were. They needed stopping and she did just that. I have heartfelt sympathy for the families that struggled on £1 per day picket line money and handouts and soup kitchens but I bet Scargills family weren’t fighting over the last slice of bread….
Don’t blame the government, it needed breaking to give us what we have now, which isn’t perfect but it’s better than bins not collected for 2 months, power cuts and bus strikes all the time ! How would she have dealt with immigration ? Welfare scrounges ? How would she have dealt with the “something for nothing” way of thinking ? “The state will look after me”….. F@@@ clean off !!
Posted on a social network by a friend of mine……… How very true.
