Miners Strike | Ian MacGregor interview | TV Eye | 1984 

This chanel is an excellent historical archive.

LOl! Stop playing the victim. Thatcher correctly shut down unprofitable mines that those who love handouts wanted the government to subsidise.

Yeah she was a real hero!! 😂 She was just fantastic for working class ppl 🤣

@@andyaim4764 : "She was just fantastic for working class ppl"...She sure was. She ensured that those working class people who wanted to go to work were not attacked by scumbag strikers. Unfortunately, even she could not stop the scumbags murdering a taxi driver who was transporting a worker to his place of employment. She did her best though.

Oh don’t worry she done her fair share if murdering..... She got far more blood on her hands....

@@andyaim4764 : Er, her curbing of militant and greedy Unions paved the way for the modern UK economy, which is 5th biggest in the world. The top four all have bigger populations so we really punch above our weight. Of course, there will always be the sour faced nobodies, with an inflated sense of entitlement, who whinge that their country doesn't do enough for them.

As cnuts go, yes.

It was a worthless dead industry.

At least he did not have a combover.

He was an old man.

The Unions were mainly responsible for the closures of both industries. Look at every closure and you will find a militant Union urging workers to demand ever more money for less and less work.

He actually made the steel industry profitable.

@@shibuya3185 ill informed.look at your energy bills.if this had been sortedout properly or better still no need for a strike we would all be better off today.that is fact-from a voice that saw it all.

@@dearne75 : You idiots who supported violent strike action got what you deserved. Go and cry on someone else's shoulder.

@@gordondowell299 The steel industry in 1979 was running with annual losses of £1.8bn.

Look for "Daddy, what did you do in the stirke" here and see how Ewan MacColl got it right. What a plausible liar hatchet-man MacGregor was.

He was a Scot.

Even worse

Greedy unions? Unions are workers who want to make a living, not an existence. They stop employers exploiting workers. The decline in unions has seen an increase in worker exploitation, drop in wages and conditions. Thatcher's attack on the unions set in place the conditions to allow greedy bosses to prosper. And regardless of whether the pits were unprofitable, the decision to close without providing an alternative has destroyed communities that still exists today.

Shibuya you are obviously very ignorant in your knowledge of trade unions and their role it was because of union negotiations that men were being paid more in the 1980s for a weeks work than they are now and the economy was booming.Now thanks to years of conservative rule we have men working for nothing and going to food banks every week and we are begging America to bail us out now.

Thatcher lied FACT you know nothing.

@@Mod-rw9cw : What a strange UK you live in. I live in a UK where unemployment is at record lows and everyone who is prepared to work can find a job. The millions of immigrants that have come here are not whining like yourself and are not playing the victim, like you are. They spend their time productively instead of whining that their country does not do enough for them.

@@pit_stop77 : "Unions are workers who want to make a living, not an existence. "....Unions are full of workers who agree to terms of employment when they are employed and then join a gang (called a Union) as soon as they are permanent and threaten their employer that unless they are paid more they will strike and destroy his business. Strikers are morally bankrupt people who think only of themselves.

Thank goodness.

@@shibuya3185 clown!

@@razor000999000 : Lol! Are you so dumb that you think we should still be suffering damage to our health from coal and that the taxpayer should be paying to suffer? Moron.

@@ac1119 : "just like you excerising his right to freedom of speech"...He first called me a clown so I said he was dumb. Why do you leap to his defence? Do you share a computer?

@@ac1119 : "the government's decision to cut coal was unjustified not the strikes occurance"..Then you are wrong on both counts. Unprofitable businesses close every single day in the UK. As they should. The strikes were violent and aimed to stop those who wanted to work attending their jobs and also to deprive the British public of coal to heat their houses. Only absolute scum behave this way and only scum condone such behaviour.