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@tictax wrote:

it was a joke cas gawddddddd :(

They’re really sensitive these women about their baby talk tictax.

………… maenwhile – back on topic ………

@Pete wrote:

The executive voted to recommend a return to work they couldnt end the strike themselves that was up to the miners themselves

In the light of this a vote was taken by the NUM National Executive who voted 98 to 91 in favour of an organised return to work. The strike formally ended on 3 March 1985, almost a year after it had begun.

Here’s a bit of history for you tictax:

Mining communities grew up around pit heads where shafts were sunk to extract coal. Coal became a source of great wealth as it became the primary fuel used in Britain which led it to be nicknamed ‘King Coal’.

The prominence of coal as a fuel in Britain meant that the National Union of Mineworkers [NU…

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@University of Glamorgan – History Research Dept. wrote:

Moscow Gold” and the 1984-85 miners’ strike

January 24, 2008

Researching relations between Britain and the former communist German Democratic Republic, historian Norman LaPorte has uncovered new evidence that ‘Moscow’s Gold’ – contrary to Soviet leader Michael Gorbachev’s assurance…

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You seem to entirely forget, as many including the BBC, do, that this was first and foremost a political strike.

The Soviet Union in all its glory was alive and fomenting trouble in the West. Scargill and co took their politics from Marxism, Trotskyism and all the other ‘isms’ of socialist revolutionaries. Ludicrous though it now sounds the…

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It wasn’t me Guv’nor – honest :lol: (Wish I’d thought of it though).

@WooHoo wrote:

@Beeker wrote:

Alright PB…still here I see :D

He received his Telegram from the Queen just last week! :lol:

Yeah – she told me to wait for 37 more years and to stop being so bloody impatient !!!!!

I remember Arthur Scargill fomenting this strike to make a stand against the then Government. Of course he dressed it up as the miners ‘fighting’ against forced redundancy and pit closures ec and made the usual impossible ‘demands’.

I recall that he refused to allow the ordinary members of the NUM (as it was then) to have a vote, or indeed any…[Read more]

You’re all a bunch of horrid ‘ageists’ and I’m off to report you to the Equal Something-or-other Board for gross discrimination or something ….. so there !!!

Charming eh??? Well I guess I know who my friends are (NOT!!!).

@Beeker wrote:

Thought id come say hello…can’t believe my profile is still active haha…I see there is still a few oldies about :wink:

Oi Beeker …. less of the “oldies” if you don’t mind !!! I’m still about but i’m not THAT old ffs !!!

We’ve never had an ignore facility on JustChat’s boards – I know that some boards have a “friend or foe” feature. which I think is an add on they instal, but we’ve never used it. I’m not too sure that it will successfully work on our software environment.

Well I’ve managed to offend not one but TWO females on this thread – is this a record???

I think I’ll contact my local branch of Bra-Burners Worldwide (BBW) to see if they have any advice to offer!!! (I can probably get my car serviced as well while I wait) :lol:

@jen_jen wrote:

…..I bided my time then I started asking questions and the salesman couldn’t answer them and had to call for help – so less of the stereotypes please! :lol:

Yup, every car salesman loves a smartarse …. or is that a stereotype too???

@(f)politics? wrote:

thought i had put it fairly simply :?
wont offer help again :( and yeah i change my own oil and brake pads and so on and even an engine once but i got help with that :lol: i used to enjoy it tho im getting older and wiser now :wink:

Don’t be offended poli, it was probably the shock of finding a female that understads the…[Read more]

I originally thought that this thread was entitled “Vandalism by Pete”.

‘Nuff said eh??? :lol:

It’s only libel if the statement made is untrue …………… !!!!!

We have an ‘involuntary’ pet ….. the neighbour’s bloody cat !!! It absolutely insists on using the back lawn as its personal toilet…. no matter what I say to it.

I’m going to borrow a dirty great big dog – with a bad attitude, a worse temper, and a big hunger (for cats).

Exactly QM – this underlines the total and unmitigated stupidity of Alex “Fishface” Salmond and his loony SNP.

There is no ‘border’ between England & Scotland in the conventional sense (passports; barriers; customs checks etc) so what’s to stop all the drunken Scots from rampaging south (again) into England and buying up all the booze in sight…[Read more]

@*Dawny* wrote:

@ForumHostPB wrote:

@WooHoo wrote:

@ForumHostPB wrote:

I’m surprised as the Welsh aren’t internationally famous for their sense of humour – mind you, nor are the Germans.

That’s right, pick on the welsh, yes, we’re only famous for our C ockles, Laverbread, and funny Language! (There could be a Court Case here).. :lol: How Dare…

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