Orgreave

[@mickd6942]

It's almost as if the reporter is reading a police script and yes it was a wonder no one was killed by the police

[@shibuya3185]

Not really. It was the miners who murdered a taxi driver.

[@Risperdali]

What about the violence of having your livelihood taken away???

[@jamcamvid]

Jobs change mate. Else we'd all still be holding sickles out in the fields, doubt you'd be very fond of that. It's the people that try to prolong jobs that are set to disappear that then make the change be a lot more forceful and less gradual than it should be

[@iamnotawasp5151]

WTF was that reporter on!!!!! pure thatcherite propaganda

[@Hrafnhistorical]

"The attacks on individual policemen were horrific" says the reporter, moments after footage of a miner lying on the floor gets his head kicked by a passing officer.

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Exactly, they were the thugs that day

[@wattage2007]

Indeed. And despite the cameras trained on the fighting, no footage of any individual police being attacked.

[@7BearBrown]

My father and uncles were miners and at the Battle of Orgreve and despite what any media outlet will tell you, the Police were looking for a fight that day - you don't bring the army and cavalry to a peaceful march, the miners wanted to work and bring home money to sustain their families - nothing more, and yet the police waved overtime pay lips in their faces. My father was accused of claiming "strike pay" what a joke! we had nothing - My father to this day admits the worst day of his life was when my sister asked him if she could have some sweets and hi;s pockets were empty. The effects are still here today, I am still a resident of a mining village and have to travel 30 miles to get to work each morning as there is simply no industry left in our once blossoming valley.

[@TheOfficialThundazz]

7BearBrown And they’ve taken it all away on purpose to undermine the stability of the British working class. Now we’ve ended up with chavs and other types of degenerates roaming the streets with nothing better to do. Young people doomed to live out their lives in idleness. I live in a former mining town aswell and it’s depressing to see what they’ve done to our area. There’s simply no hope. And then the same bastards whip up sentiment against immigrants. The same immigrants that the aforementioned bastards brought to the country!

[@shibuya3185]

@@TheOfficialThundazz : The Unions devastated the North of England. The working class was stupid enough to put their faith in them and paid the price. It's called Karma. Stop blaming the government who just wanted to close unprofitable mines which was the sensible thing to do.

[@Dorian-lq3up]

@@shibuya3185 "Those ignorant poors, how dare they fight back?! I'm a neo-liberal, fuck me daddy corporations!"

[@MrOlympuse410]

@@shibuya3185 yes, this is all the union's fault. hope you'll be giving up your weekends, paid time off, and working health and safety standards, seeing as you hate the unions so much :)

[@shibuya3185]

@@MrOlympuse410 : Surely you can't be stupid enough to believe that all the improvements in working conditions in this modern age are due to Unions? Or are you? No doubt you believe all improvements in other areas of our life are due to Unions too.....such is your brainwashed mind.

[@robinhutton1726]

Outrageous misrepresentation of police brutality. Another shameful day for the force that tried to blame Liverpool fans for their own incompetence at Hillsborough. BBC a disgrace also.

[@mrkipling2201]

Agreed.

[@wattage2007]

What do you expect? Honesty? They were allowing Jimmy Savile's activities at this point in history. BBC; scum then, scum now.

[@alleyhartley7916]

and the police wonder why nobody takes them seriously and have no respect for any of them. if any of your are ever stopped an searched and the police ask if you want it to be in a private place to be searched always say no keep it in the view of public as you can.

[@VanderlyndenJengold]

Outrageous. Independent inquiry needed now. There's enough evidence to warrant it especially as South Yorks police Hillsborough behaviour and subsequent cover up.

[@kennycraig5226]

Solidarity from Newcastle upon Tyne.

[@superwhites5870]

The police started this and it wasn't hand to hand when the pigs had bats

[@kat834]

inquiry has been halted. What a cover up for another conservative government.

[@simpsonhenry7289]

kat834 Labour did not hold an enquiry when it was in office for 13 years! Was that a cover up too?

[@kat834]

Its well known the Conservatives were dead against the miners. It does not matter which party is in government, this is outrageous. We might as well live in a dictatorship.

[@kat834]

meaning what?

[@eamonnevans8005]

and the Labour Government from 1997 - 2010, refused to have one as well!

[@alexanderharris8310]

No justice no peace.

[@johnmccumiskey4577]

Scandalous misrepresentation.

[@steveonumnuts8212]

Times when peaple stuck together, thank u for your service in them pits , that made r country strong. And now we have pupit government,

[@wattage2007]

They stuck together and still got nowhere.

[@timhughes7542]

total crap reporting, police horses charged first knocked down innocent miner and other to leave lying on the ground bloodied and confused, for other officers to make up (together later) charges.

[@disuc42]

Solidarity from Dublin

[@robbieg6036]

'He slipped and fell' Ok

[@timpatjoe]

Thatchers storm troopers. Disgraceful

[@shibuya3185]

Just policemen protecting workers who wanted to go to work. The strikers were scum.

[@shibuya3185]

@@stormytempest3907 : The strikers started the problem. They are the one's who killed a taxi driver taking a man to work, smashed the cars and beat up innocent men and women who merely wanted to attend work. There was far more "bad" on the side of the strikers.

[@stormytempest3907]

@@shibuya3185 You never said yes or no to the question did you? I reiterate again, good and bad on both sides, shocking days they really were,. Thatcher went to way to far, big winners and even BIGGER losers, believe you me, her legacy? Greed, today's TORY party, honestly, alot of my generation lived it.

[@shibuya3185]

@@stormytempest3907 : The only greed was that of the striking thugs who wanted the taxpayer to subsidise their wages by keeping open unprofitable coal mines.

[@shibuya3185]

@@stormytempest3907 :"her legacy?"..Her legacy is the fact that greedy and violent gangs of men, which is what the strikers were, can no longer stop working class people attending work.

[@neilgraves5069]

Squaddies dressed as police, thatchers hooligan mob . JUSTICE FOR 96 JUSTICE FOR ORGREAVE MINERS

[@nonenone-vt8cg]

The birth of BBC bias

[@mikehunte2087]

Biased broadcasting corporation

[@jd0468]

Fuckin biased news if I’ve ever seen it

[@macmfc1]

Dreadful disgraceful journalism

[@mattbod]

This is totally biased I was only 7 at the time but it was the Police who got heavy handed first. None of the charges they brought against miners stuck. These pickets were seeing their communities and livlihoods destroyed and we are seeing similar in 2022.

[@FourMileSurvival]

One of the many reasons why you should refuse to pay the BBC license fee, just a right wing mouthpiece

[@wattage2007]

They may have been right wing back then but they certainly aren't now.

[@dylskyok]

Doesnt this show whos side the media was on ? This was a fight to stop our children having to work in McDonald's for starvation wages and no chance of affording a house.......... Yeh we lost. RIP WORKING CLASS SELF RESPECT . DIED 1984.

[@lewisgreen2957]

Clever move by Scargill to hold a strike in the middle of summer..

[@Laytonia1977]

The most biased reporting I've ever heard.

[@wattage2007]

That set the standard of biased reporting we've got nowadays.

[@joblogs3538]

In reality it was the miners who were horrifically battered

[@eamonnevans8005]

Thatchers Boot Boys

[@jackdawes120]

This is proper gander!

[@fraggss991]

That's the "Minimum State" for you.

[@TomBartram-b1c]

Woulda been fun if X Reb had been around back then ..crusties siding with Maggie Thatch! Oh the irony!

[@hugosmithartist]

Eco-socialists are pro-union, pro-workers. They want a Green New Deal/Green Industrial revolution, creating 1 million + jobs to make up for the devastating destruction brought about by Thatcher

[@TomBartram-b1c]

@@hugosmithartist yeah they do NOW. Back then all the stoodents and CND brigade, anti apartheid, anti Falklands War, anti Reagan, anti Thatcher protesters were MASSIVELY pro coal and went picketing up & down the country. I remember those days and the notion of coal being ungreen simply wasn't a thing

[@ryanmurphy5943]

Thatchers is in the mud

[@rgsnr8702]

so 5000 pickets turn up at a coking plant to shut it down and the police are the bandies for enforcing the law and rights of the workers in this plant, its a joke i understand there maybe an enquiry now if Corbyn is elected well i hope it is to also prosecute those pickets that regarded extreme violence as a legitimate right, the police only stood up to those thugs who thought they had the right to bully people and anyone who thought that the police would send only a couple of offices to control a mob of 5000 miners is an idiot and they got all they deserved people like scargill had no interest in miners he just used them as pawns in his anti government agenda as history has no shown

[@dermotoc9594]

You blame the miners for shutting down the pits? Christ.

[@shibuya3185]

@@dermotoc9594 : Of course the miners contributed to the closures with their strikes and never ending demands for more pay for less work.

[@warhammerworld1689]

I agree

[@yetidodger6650]

Everyone of those policeman there should be ashamed as should their children and grandchildren. Dirty violent bastards who were paid extra to beat up hard working men trying to save their jobs.

[@MrAlwaysBlue]

Strike was a bad year for everyone all round

[@yetidodger6650]

Dirty bastard coppers, beating up working men fighting for their futures.