Gary wrote:
You just have to look at footage of Orgreave to see what misery she caused. I was just a kid at the time but i knew it was all wrong what was happening.
State funeral? more like a party.
Yes, and just come to Wigan, Leigh, Irlam in Lancashire.....fucking hell ANY industrial areas that were decimated during the '80's. I know industry had been in a slow decline for years, and was on it's way out anyway but the way that those bastards hastened it's demise and gave the workforce + their families fuck all hope for a decent future was unforgivable.
I come from a mining family and know blokes who were at the last Lancashire Colliery in Leigh which shut in '91 - the pride those people had in their work. They were like brothers - all looked out for each other - their families all had that same thing in common, then they shut the pits and killed everything despite there still being 200 years left of the stuff underneath and started buying it in from Poland at a cheap price. Tory cunts.
Pages 28 - 31 in Orwell's 'Road To Wigan Pier' sums up what the Lancashire and Yorkshire workforces were up against right until the '80's even though it was written in '36
I'd have her head on a spike on Wigan Town Hall - which is an ex-mining college.
I've never understood that south-east Tory working class thing - the east end was a squalid dump yet the Alf Garnett stereotype voted for them in droves. Fucking insane.