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Scargill destroyed the NUM.

The miners used their industrial muscle to get the highest wages, striking to bring the country to its knees they didn't care about anyone one else. They were led by a Marxist + Scargill was bent on breaking the government to impose an East European communist paradise! The flying pickets violent were thugs - it was their right to strike but not to terrorise decent men that did want the opportunity to work. The miners were beaten, it was a battle we had to win and Thatcher had the brains and balls to do the job. Btw Scargill became a wealthy man for life, living in the City of London, a luxury flat in the Barbican paid for by the NUM. t

Not the brightest specimens of society..

Refreshing to hear the right to work being mentioned, this has been off the agenda of all parties for decades now.

Heroes, but at the end of the day the taxpayer don't owe you a living

They'll never let the masses get too comfortable or too united as that gives us strength. Every generation it's just a different slant on the same old divisions and diversions to distract us from their wicked intent. They drive a wedge between generations, races, preferences of every kind. Cooperative communities may help us fight against the capitalist machine but the time is flying.....

Arthur’s doing fine lads. He owns his Barbican flat outright, probably worth about 2 million now. 🍾🥂

Shame those miners were so stubborn and stupid to listen to a far left subversive like scargill. I also hate how they treated the so called "scabs", the miners who went back to work to look after their families. That was just disgusting but not really surprising given they were people who would never listen anyway.

At the time I regarded them as Arthur Scargill's storm troopers trying to beat a government ,this film reinforces that view.

Stay in school kids...

I'm from Liverpool,, Thatcher ripped the shit out of the dockers in Liverpool as well,,,,bless the miners👍👍👍👍

Shame on the British police force for standing against the hardworking men who pay their salary

Scargill did not give his wages to the miners strike only person who did was Dennis skinner.

You have to empathize with them.

All this "We'll win", well they didn't, they lost.

I was arrested at Babbington Colliery in Nottingham April 9th 1984.

This video is incredible. These men and woman are hero’s for the rights of workers all around the world ❤

Scargill was a self-described "Stalinist" who destroyed the coal industry and the NUM by starting a fight he could not win.

15:57 my that wasn’t too obvious now was it?? Goalie didn’t even try. 😂😂😂

England’s lazy populace today has the exact opposite mindset today than they did back then. Back then they wanted jobs and fought tooth & nail to stay off the dole. Today most would rather be on the dole and get a check for doing nothing than to work for a paycheck. Bloody wankers

Bobs’s your uncle Pip Pip Cheerio 😊

Arthur Scargill got very rich off of the backs of the miners.

The Unions killed the pits with greed.

All of this takes me back to the good old days. Back when there were good communities who stuck together. Don't really see this nowadays. People got fucked over by the Government . 😢😢😢

I was a striking miner,I did the full strike picketing and all.Now 70 and retired loooking back at these times via these videos, I just fill with pride .These men older now and wiser, we did our best but you can't always win. But those women! Them lasses! Brilliant,our wives. Mothers and sisters.Such determination and loyalty, I wonder if 40 years on if todays women, some who can't be bothered to get out of their pyjamas to take the bairns to school some of them daughters of striking.miners wives could do what their parents did Now and again I see some of these women in the street,in shops and the like, and I think ,yes we went through the strike BLESS you all .

Ask scarily where the Russian money went.😢. A scarily took his full back pay after the strike. The union had to take him to court to reclaim a grace a favour flat in Central London 20 yrs after the strike 😢..

Vale of Belvoir was the biggest failure by the coal board. Only lasted a few years before it was shut down.. 😂

Wanted a mc Gregory to get rid of their.. immigrants that have invaded the uk.

1:57 mark Lawrenson 😂

I wish our police still looked as competent and imposing as they do here.

Looking back I believe we, the working class, let the miners down. THE TUC should have called a general strike.

If it was all thatchers fault y not when labour got back involved didn't they open the pits back up 😢

How much was redundancy pay

Scargill failed to bring down the elected government by starting an illegal strike.

Grandson and nephew of Mines ime proud of my rout's and lived through the strike s God bless all those Miners and families that stood solid and resolute ❤

If thee shut pit, all thee pubs will shut int village , n co-op will av to shut dahn, cuz well a nah coin tbuy bife fo Sundeedinna, fuck meye serry lad

And I'll tell thee this ,..........

What was the final score?

The days when we had police!! Who were used as military! These men and women are the sons and daughters of britains who went through and helped win ww2, who sacrificed then began rebuilding. These people had their strong values and worked hard and just wanted to be happy, live decent lives and a government of toffs replaced British values with greed. Now another 2 gens on, we are unrecognisable in comparison to the people in this video and those of their parents. Anyone of those times knows what I mean

I was a notts miner in the strike and proud I was on strike not like the rest of the scabs in notts and they were told all notts pits would be ok . And that came back to bite them in the backside

I remember all this but looking back 40 years later I get the impression that people back then were less worldly wise than people now but at the same time we’re more mature and responsible in their outlook.

What strikes me is, thees man and women are facing losing their jobs possible their home but they aren't swearing or attacking people. My partners grandfather was a miner and she is really upset by the mines closeing, that's why I'm watching to see what went on

Still using lots of coal imported from all over the world in fact the government are trying to open up a new mine in the north east the destruction of the coal industry was thatchers way of breaking the trade unions she broke the unions but in doing so she destroyed the lives of millions of people and made England the place it is now a cheap low wage no industry soul less society

Wonderful people, cheers for the upload 👍

Those corrupt C. unts at channel 4 wouldn't even bother to make this today!

13:46 ........its like he knew the future 🤣🤣

TO THIS DAY I HATE SCABS WITH A PASSION ,BASTARDS .

The coal industry was dying by the 1980's. It was being propped up by government subsidies. You cant keep living in the 1930's.

Scargill began a fight he could not win. Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.

02:15, this was the best house in the North they could find to film in 😂