Miners' Strike 40 Years On: 'We Were Robbed of our Futures and Livelihoods' 

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My Brother started at Bestwood Colliery Nottingham in the 1950s..could't go on the coal face until he turned 18 .. when he did we at home was happy a coal allowance and a warm house in winter .. then at 21 he was in a TB Sanatorium for 12 months .. gone the coal allowance back to cold winters , he never recovered properly and died in his 40s ..he very rarely spoke to me ..AS a footnote as we all hated Margret Thatcher but how would she have handled todays problems of Migrants and Muslims .. ????

There is no need for strikers to attend their workplace, in order to strike. They can just stay at home, and STILL strike. The Police were called because the strikers were trying to prevent non-strikers from going into work.

We now see Labour voting against mining communities who would have predicted that! Burnhope in Durham is known as the village that refused to die no matter who are against us! 2024.

Moving story...I am from Cortonwood...went to the school there, fell in love there, used to run by the pit often, my family worked there, my mates worked there...I ended up at S Kirkby...man from there killed...my best mate committed suicide...it was a battle between people versus profit merchants...rich wishing to be richer...and the workers and unions were stopping them getting at otherwise easy pots of money, and changing the landscape for future workers, and their rights...and the masses...it was a scam, backed by bent coppers, led by bent politicians...and supported by the bent rich...it's fair to say it wasn't as easy as they thought...and I was so so so disappointed when I heard of the ballot to go back...plenty of us wished to keep going...and we can never be defeated...so long as our heart remains in the right place...then we have won...for in spirit land, we're forever miners, united, we will never be defeated...

Nobody has a job for life,any business has to be economically viable to exist. Other people when made retrained,retired or even moved location if need be,what miners should have done too.