Coal Mining - Silverhill Colliery - 1992 

Cry me a River....handing the Tories victory in 84/85 and then being betrayed by them. Who'd have thought it.....

The rush for gas was a massive mistake, emptied entire gas fields in in only 5 years which should have lasted 30 years.

Arthur Scargill Was Right In Everything He Said In The 1984/85 Miners Strike And The Nottingham Miners Should Have Listened To Arthur And Backed The Strike And Saved The Mining Industry.

Well done Michael Clark, 👏 you foresaw what we are seeing now, coal is cheaper, gas running out, the consumer pays the price we rely on Russia.

Should’ve come out in 84!

Thanks UDM, you helped keep Thatcher in power and you got what you deserved

As a derbyshire miner who was on strike.. once a scab owes a scab you betrayed was your fellow num miners rot in hell with Thatcher

Did Lynk hand his OBE back,or was it just bullshit for the TV cameras?

You'll be alright boys, your UDM will look after you. Should have come out with the NUM in the first place.

I wonder what we would have done differently in 1992 if we could have looked forward to 2021 and seen the dog's dinner of an energy policy we now have.

Silverhill coal seams were only 4 feet thick at the most.It would have shut anyway.Remember crawling like a rat in less than 2 feet of room.Glad wasn't asthmatic as I am now.

Stuffed by the Thatcher government that they supported, I won't say that it served them right, but living proof that what goes around comes around in the end. Sad for all those that lost their jobs.

How do the former miners who crossed picket lines feel that they were shafted and betrayed? Do they feel shamed for working through the strike? Regardless of the ballot waffle thy they come out with solidarity always comes first, also in 1981 when the NUM held a national ballot Notts miners voted against strike action.

Didnt the turncoat lee anderson now a tory stand on the picket lines? he seems to get the tag "scab" a fair bit

what happened was the death of the miners, communities, a disgrace

As a S/Yorks mineworker I spent a year on strike in '84. Looking back now it's easy to see we were all pawns in a huge political game. The govt used classic divide & rule tactics. Miner turned against miner when we should have all been united in a common cause. I'm proud to have stood up for what I believed in, I don't have hatred for Notts miners or the deputies who could have stopped all pits. But the tories & thatcher, I'll hate them til the day I die.

Didn't have the guts to fight in 1984, didn't even have the guts to fight in 1992, now listen to them squeal about how unfair the government is for closing down their pit. As for Thatcher's best buddy at the time, Roy Lynk. and his comical one man stay down and his "Iv'e been shafted" squeal....you sure have Roy and well deserved it was too.

They should have filled the shafts in while lynk was still underground.

Silverhill men had the chance to fight against pit closures in 1984/85, they choose not to. Then, when it was their turn they squealed like the scabby pigs they were, tough luck as far as I'm concerned.

Now wind power generates 30 times more power in the uk than coal.

The SCABS got exactly they deserved

That horrible woman.

From one ex miner God bless you all 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Ashamed of them when local people were supporting NUM families.

i never voted tory and never will

Drax power station burning wood from West Canada is the highest C02 polluter in Europe. Only 1/4 of the heat from coal and they get 400 million a year subsidy. Progress eh !

repent at your leisure because thats what your tory pals gave you, lots and lots of lovely leisure.....

Scabs

9:28 Building gas power stations to bring competition… there’s absolutely no competition when the alternatives close down leaving behind a monopoly that can do what it wants (including price hikes). It’s the exact same as big supermarket chains that have killed off all the small family owned shops on the high street. These tories weren’t about competition but only interested in the transfer of wealth, making their rich even richer. The tories and their donors would have been major shareholders in the the gas industry and want to crush the working class and trade unions. He doesn’t care that it’s you and I the consumer who will pay more and suffer.

I was the deputy in charge when Roy Lynk sneeked into the pit .I was the one who informed Mr ian clayton.Lost lots of mates forever .Ian h.

3.2p per Kwh. Can you imagine…

'Difficult mining conditions, 2 million

it's still there for when we need it and we will it it all goes shit shaped .

And then we started to buy it from China ...

The UDM got what was coming to them for working through the strick

Always funny to see scabs getting shafted... shame the wider community lost the asset.

wouldn't made much difference silverhill was always on the list even in 1980 after butcherwood shut

Same in 1926 spencer union

If they'd just had the guts to come out with us in 84 Scabs one and all

Funniest thing on here, scabs for life

dance with the devil

Hope I live to see the gas run out and they start begging to reopen all the mines 😁

Scabs should have stood with their friends .

No sympathy. As others have said in the comments - should've shown solidarity and come out in '84.

All the fancy new gas powered plants they built are now a missive national security risk!

......SCABS.......

Should have join me on the picket line,

Why are the miners being searched at 5.40 before going down the mine? 🙈😯⚠️

Notts miners deserved what they got, Should have stuck with the NUM.

The government didn't foresee the energy security risks with the dash for gas, we could never be self sufficient on gas, thanks to Russia my bills have doubled 🤷🏼‍♂️

All i can say is should have listened to Arthur.

that served them right lol.🤣

Did you take on the fact off how many jobs lost don't think so you had a poor Union whom took money on the side

Nottinghamshire shall always be known as scabs thanks to theese men.

The fundamental problem with mining is that even a crap wage is still more than can be justified by such a low value product.

Slept with the devil..reap wat u sow

Scab Lynk

Maggie and her promise 😂😂😂

EH UP CHUCK GET CIGGY ONT GO!

Cloud coo coo land if any one thought there was a future for coal mines in the uk,

Scab bastards.

Deserved it! Scabs forever! What you deserved!

serves the bastard scabs right

Trusted the Tories, scabbed the strike & got what they deserved.

It all went wrong when Scargill refused a vote on striking. He allowed Maggi to build massive stocks of coal. Scargill split the workforce then took on the government in the summer with massive stocks. Britain and communities lost was enormous. Scargill was stupid. He thought he could do the same to Thatcher as he did to heath. That was a massive mistake. We are still sitting on coal, billions of tons. We need good government to sort the energy we have.

I’m no socialist but I mourn the industrial nation that was destroyed before I was born. These people were warned. It’s not about left or right it’s about unity…. First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me

ha ha ha ha Karma yer scab bastards

scabs

Lynk ended up a Alcoholic and Greatrex took £150000 from UDM pension pot for his house renovation and got 4 years jail,and he's dead now,smooth talking Prendergast now dead,,,,,,SCARGILL STILL ALIVE 😂

Miners in the dark ages every one on gas mains no one wants it

ha ha ha udm tory lovers

Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.

I'm so glad we closed the coal mines.

Stupid Comments,, The Miners got what they deserved, At one time they were paid 22% more a week that any other factory worker in the UK and then when the gap closed they then wanted a 43% pay rise, It serves them right, Every winter they came out on strike and innocent families and Old Peoples Homes across the UK had to suffer Blackouts and Loss of Heating all because of their Greed, Maggie is the one who said No More, But Ted Heath should of done it back in 1970 and when Wilson/Labour got in he should of said no more but it took a Woman 12 years later to put a stop to the Blackmailing Miners, No one had a Gun to their heads saying they had to be miners so if the Money wasn't good enough then they should of got another job, These Blackouts went on for months at a time, Thanks to Maggie we can no longer be Blackmailed by the Miners and they are Victims of their own stupidity, HooRay for Maggie, Bless Her.

What did they expect the coal mines were loosing money hand over fist, tax payers shouldn’t have been expected to subsidise the coal industry. Mrs thatcher did you right thing

Silverhill. Scabs

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