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Post by bathstoke on Oct 13, 2019 16:29:11 GMT
I don’t think I’m extreme left Fel. I’m just a product of my environment. I left school i the midst of the Miners strike. You remember, when the north had a powerhouse & we didn’t have a monkey-dust epidemic. But hey, the extreme right are going to put all that right with HS2. Fel, these are the simple things, how will you deal with difficult $#!t... It's interesting your blind support for the miners. I knew miners who loathed being political pawns by the nutcase in charge of the Miners union. I also have memories of miners being sent down to Silverdale, housed for free by the local council and targeting local children with the questions Is your father a miner, Is he on strike which depending on the answer was followed by Where do you live? I also knew miners that voted Conservative. You seem to have little current knowledge of the Potteries or it's people from your ivory tower down South. I on the other hand spend a huge amount of time there and I must be very lucky with the thousands of people I meet. Stick to what you know Barth in your narrow, tiny, jaundiced world “You know miners” what a tourist you are Fel. Half my family worked for the coalboard & I probably would have if I hadn’t have left school in 85. Even my mother worked in their offices & none of them ever voted Tory. Yes, Scargill was a tw@t, but that was no reason to decimate such a massive industry without an exit strategy. I live in Bath as an economic refugee.
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Post by felonious on Oct 13, 2019 16:53:46 GMT
It's interesting your blind support for the miners. I knew miners who loathed being political pawns by the nutcase in charge of the Miners union. I also have memories of miners being sent down to Silverdale, housed for free by the local council and targeting local children with the questions Is your father a miner, Is he on strike which depending on the answer was followed by Where do you live? I also knew miners that voted Conservative. You seem to have little current knowledge of the Potteries or it's people from your ivory tower down South. I on the other hand spend a huge amount of time there and I must be very lucky with the thousands of people I meet. Stick to what you know Barth in your narrow, tiny, jaundiced world “You know miners” what a tourist you are Fel. Half my family worked for the coalboard & I probably would have if I hadn’t have left school in 85. Even my mother worked in their offices & none of them ever voted Tory. Yes, Scargill was a tw@t, but that was no reason to decimate such a massive industry without an exit strategy. I live in Bath as an economic refugee. Well I spent a fair amount of my formative years living in a pit village Barth and a fair amount of my family worked at the pit. I knew Silverdale pit as well as any kid, my mother spent a fair few years working in the offices but I can't tell you anything because you know it all Barth from your blinkered view. Some of the miners who came to Silverdale were not heroes. Funny how different people are I've never felt the need to escape the Potteries and snipe from afar but each to their own.
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Post by bathstoke on Oct 13, 2019 16:56:49 GMT
“You know miners” what a tourist you are Fel. Half my family worked for the coalboard & I probably would have if I hadn’t have left school in 85. Even my mother worked in their offices & none of them ever voted Tory. Yes, Scargill was a tw@t, but that was no reason to decimate such a massive industry without an exit strategy. I live in Bath as an economic refugee. Well I spent a fair amount of my formative years living in a pit village Barth and a fair amount of my family worked at the pit. I knew Silverdale pit as well as any kid, my mother spent a fair few years working in the offices but I can't tell you anything because you know it all Barth from your blinkered view. Some of the miners who came to Silverdale were not heroes. Funny how different people are I've never felt the need to escape the Potteries and snipe from afar but each to their own. ❤️
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