(02 Nov 2016, 8:07 pm)Adrian wrote Let us not forget that Scargill was right. It was revealed in 2014 from archive papers that there was indeed a hit list of 75 mines to be closed, costing 75,000 jobs. The next 30 years were of course a massive Government cover up.
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-41...-was-right
Owen Jones hit the nail on the head for me in an article he wrote - Orgreave was part of the class war that ended with 96 dead at Hillsborough.
Whilst I am not surprised at this Government's decision, it does not make me any less angry at it. They seem more intent to preserve the "legacy" of Maggie, than let natural justice in this country take plae. It is in the public interest to have this out in the open. If there is nothing to hide, then why do the Tories want to prevent this from happening? Sounds like another stitch up to me.
Hillsborough and Orgreave: one police force, two disgraces.
Interesting way to put it...
Is it safe to say to the cover up of Orgreave effectively gave us Hillsborough.
I honestly dont know a lot in detail about Orgreave or the strike in general, but what people have told me, is that Scargill was a bit of a moron in how he went about his business at the time, but the government were bigger arseholes and that Maggies problem was not so much with the miners themselves, but Arthur Scargill himself, that she would never have let Scargill win and that if he took her down, she would have brought country down with her...I dont know how far from the truth that is mind...
Anyway it amazes me that 1 police force could be involved in mass cover-ups twice in less than 5 years, sounds like SYP were not fit for purpose through he 1980's and the country needs to know why they were so incompetant and how they became such a joke in under 5 years
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