Grim O'Grady
Banned
Cheers Grim,
Coming from a mining area I could tell you hundreds of stories about the strike. People in communities stuck together, some of the old ones said it was just like it had been in the war where everyone helped everyone else. I knew whole families who lost everything, and I mean everything. Kids went without Xmas pressies, people lost their homes and were paying off the debts years after. So let us not forget what Thatcher did to the decent hard working class of this country. Us in Yorkshire shall never forget.
Musley xx
Although I'm not from a mining community we knew what it meant & we should have all done more, I would drop off tins of food etc for the striking families, at the weekly collections in our town centre, which was the least I could do.
It was that Miners Strike that really opened up my political eyes & unfortunately I never had the balls to go on any Miners demo's but like I said that was my waking call & I did start making demo's for other striking workers after that. I got to meet Scargill up in Dundee at the timex workers dispute many years later & I was stood behind him when he was being interviewed by some news repoter & he said he was appalled to see such violence on a march & we were all thinking wtf is he saying then he finished it with, yes but they are the same vicious thugs that attacked us during our strike!
love
Grim