The LAST MINERS Interview [ subtitled ]

[@baillie677]

The salt of the earth. These are the men that made Britain great, them and their dads and their grandfather's. I'm Scottish and come from mining stock and these men are working class heroes.

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Indeed

[@Daniel_Goddard]

Then they were betrayed by the class which are destroying the country now

[@oakguard]

Another Scot grew up in a mining village outside of Musselburgh remember as a kid you could see the Shafthead frames poking over the tree line of the nearby park also drive past old Prestongrange Colliery often

[@SUPERLEEDSYRA]

So much respect for these 2 guys and all there former colleagues. True working heroes.

[@michaelrogowski7476]

Could not understand that bit about brotherhood. I used to work underground, just finished my training, I was roughly treated, dirt rubbed in my face, slurry thrown in my eyes, punched, pushed over, dragged along the ground, had my food and drink taken from me, laughed at, just trying to earn a living and pay my way.

[@ettabogie]

@@michaelrogowski7476 did it make you a man?

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

@@ettabogie no he had them new woke genes

[@58johnjohn]

All of these men have been betrayed by government after government, we have something like 400 years worth of coal reserves in this country, and the politicians will regret the day they closed the mines.Good luck to these brave hardworking men in whatever they do in the future.

[@robertcolcombe6893]

These men along with myself are still being ripped off by the governments regarding their pensions , the government has has 100s of millions out of our pensions and still continue to do so

[@nialloneill5097]

AGREE. All the nation were betrayed, but especially the mining communities, from which I am from.

[@ulovemymum2963]

Ask him to sing the northern calypso ! 🤣

[@andrewbriggs6083]

I worked there too. Did all the upgrade on shaft signals and brakes, i love you guys, worked at Brody myself.

[@andrewbriggs6083]

I,d go back in a heartbeat, i,d go back tomorrow. Sheldon, Kevin, i think we all would. God bless you.

[@jimmyjetski3409]

Solid grafters, we will not see their type again, good for the health and safety, bad for a working mans pride.

[@-FreeMiner-]

Glad to if Met them in person

[@leakcity4083]

These guys are the real working class men how far we’ve become 😌

[@jagarg6573]

All that coal and equipment sealed forever at the big k

[@nw8000]

I dont see any Feminist or Black people in that Crew

[@BenDover-qu9jn]

Well there is nothing stopping them from becoming a miner...

[@jimmyjetski3409]

Are you having a laugh, they spell work H A R D.

[@MrConan89]

The Mines and Quarries Act prevents employment of women and children underground. There were plenty of black people at the end of the shift.

[@nw8000]

@@MrConan89 LOL

[@nialloneill5097]

@@MrConan89 My grandma worked on the pit top at 8, illiterate, back in the day, and near where I lived a few mines blew up with young children killed, albeit in the late 1800's. You reminded me how at the start of a shift I would sing the Beatles, Stranglers, the Clash, and move onto Mario Lanza, before breaking out into songs of gospel, or Al Jolsen, who was a favourite of mine. By then, I looked the spitting image of Jolson, and in the dark was only spotted when singing, or when I opened my mouth, revealing my pearly white teeth that always looked much better with my face blackened through the pit dust. Themt wo daze! And I still am...in a daze!!! When you work in themt places, they become your reality, and anything else doesn't seem real. Remember, nearly all ya mates are darn theeu, so its a continuity from school, or it was. A place of mass community, where as the man said, people usually had ya back, although a few would stab ya there too, but not many!

[@chriscars3578]

This's is all due to Maggie and the rest of the twats it's all gone they will regret it in the end all the coal left in the country just not right. Salt of the earth miners I love working in them

[@user-fd1cp9jt5i]

Wilson closed more mines than Thatcher you fool

[@doctorsocrates4413]

@@user-fd1cp9jt5i as did heath...

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

These were the lucky ones most miners had lost there jobs many years before, just sad all round and still think it was a mistake to close them all as we are seeing now with the energy crisis

[@nialloneill5097]

No rationality in govt thinking, as politics becomes the way, through lies, lies and damned lies, followed by thefts and other criminal forms. The Strike was when the nation lost its coal, housing, steel, water, sustainability, pride, and conscience, to be replaced by GREED, CRIMINALITY and SELIFHSNESS, AND LIES...

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

The coal industry had steadily declined since 1910.

[@vtecpreludevtec]

If there's a war,shipping gets affected,ppl will get cold.

[@dereklee6001]

Simply the best

[@kevinc6763]

Quite possibly the most unbelievable part of this interview is that the guy in the dark shirt is 55!!! That's what mining does to you. Makes you look like you're 78 when you're 55 😅 #wtf

[@nialloneill5097]

I aged and crippled people, bent backs, ashen faces, constant coughs and phlegm, dodgy knees, been there, and wear the hat!

[@john-pp5hl]

This modern world is such a joy,compared to the old fashioned ,honest,hardworking dinosaurs we left behind.

[@leonarddavies288]

They got weighed in with over £170,000 redundancy each

[@nialloneill5097]

I worked in the mines, and never heard of such redundancies, never. I received 8K, for a decade of work, when the redundancies were high, as they decreased drastically once the main part of the workforce had been moved on. No Union to protect them you see, which was of great benefit to the rich and elite, as was the privatisation of many nationalised industries that had been paid for by tax payers, namely the poorer working class, as the rich dodged theirs, or used tax havens, including Thatcherites such as recent PMs, who had their education paid for such by fraudulent acts. Thus, many institutions paid for by those with a conscience and the hard labour and dead of the common folk were robbed by the elite, who were handed them on a silver platter that provided them a feast of many juicy morsels, for a few bob. Daily robbery was it, the death of a nation, the death of honesty and justice, the death of trust, the death of a once great nation, once driven by the hard-working mining communities who were the backbone of our country, to be called the enemy within, by the real enemy, the servants of the Devil, who only knew and know, of stealing and lies. And now, surprise, surprise, look at the state of the soul of this country. .

[@clairebunt5887]

Can't believe it was on the BBC the Tories channel they obviously have no idea bless the miners 😢😢❤️

[@thewordforever4839]

The Tory channel? It would be if the majority of the news reporters had not been Trotskyites in their youth!

[@nialloneill5097]

@@thewordforever4839 Perhaps Claire was being a l touch ironical.

[@jamesfordjhfcontractingltd1627]

The coal mines needed to be closed, they were costing the tax payer a fortune, and costing the miners their health

[@nialloneill5097]

Vast majority of mines were viable, and I could tel you of the many lies that came out of various sources, and the things the NCB did to fix the accounts of these mines, but then anyone with a conscience will ensure that they research the truth before opening their mouths. You have some work to do, if you care about integrity and truth that is, but if anyone is like Thatcher and her bands of robbers and liars to hell with truth! And to hell it will be, mark ye well!!!!!!

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

@@nialloneill5097 Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.