Greythundercloudys
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Sure he, ll lose votes in Northern England buy saying what he said, l think there is still bad feelings about those how went to work and those how striked even nearly 40 years ago.
Johnston, miner strike.
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- Location
- Limousin
Why say anything, unless his brain is unconnected to his mouth. 
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
No chance it seems people are so stupid that Johnson could say ‘We’re going to sell poor northern children to the Arabs’ and people would still vote for him as it’s better that we send our kids there than foreigners coming here.
Isn't it?
oil barron
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
I would say it was a deliberate move to create a headline away from the fishing problems and all the offshore turbine industry being based abroad.
Also set a beautiful bear trap for Starmer that he stumbled right in to.
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Also set a beautiful bear trap for Starmer that he stumbled right in to.
Northern Tory MPs declare support for controversial coal mine
‘Red wall’ MPs accuse Labour of ‘turning its back’ on northern communities
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- Location
- Lincolnshire.
Pretty stupid joke really. Northern brexit votes are based on local jobs for local people attitudes. Rather like the miners strike.I would say it was a deliberate move to create a headline away from the fishing problems and all the offshore turbine industry being based abroad.
Also set a beautiful bear trap for Starmer that he stumbled right in to.
Northern Tory MPs declare support for controversial coal mine
‘Red wall’ MPs accuse Labour of ‘turning its back’ on northern communities
oil barron
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Exactly, and the Tories are trying to open up a new pit in Cumbria that Labour are opposing. If he just said Labour are opposing this pit the headlines would all be about how the Tories don’t care about the environment. Doing this now, what can Starmer say in Parliament?
ollie989898
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Everything Thatcher did would have happened anyway; the only thing that she did was speed the process up. I concede that it could have been handled a lot more sensitively, however but the unions were having none of it.
Johnson is no idiot, I've heard he is ruthless and has a mind like a razor.
Johnson is no idiot, I've heard he is ruthless and has a mind like a razor.
Mind like a razor? Ladyshave presumably
Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
Yep, he's sharp, very. As for Mrs T, the NUM had to be broken as a union and anti-democratic force - and it was a force. But, as PM, she had a duty to rebuild the communities once that had been achieved, she didn't and seemed to ignore the plight of them. (Don't get me wrong, overall I am a great admirer of her.)
- Location
- Northern Ireland
Mind like a razor. That's hilarious. Well, he's smarter than Dianne Abbott. High praise.
Greythundercloudys
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Scargil and Mick magakie were true union men, my brother in law used to know someone that worked at the miners union office and they had a massive coal fire on everyday of the year. My dad went down and pit when he was young just for an hr and always said he would just keep farming. Didn't like the conditions. That was in the 40s.
ollie989898
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The man has a working grasp of 4 different languages and used to teach latin. He may well play the fool and have any number of other faults but he is anything but daft.
ollie989898
Member
I agree the unions were way out of order but it is a sad day for a country when the police are beating down the working man or waving their pay cheques at people. That is the very essence of a class war and was totally wrong on all levels. The miners and the communities they came from were a valuable asset that should have been gently helped into other industries or regions.
capfits
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The attention span of a fish even less when there is a bitch in heat.
As for a razor like mind well I think the judgement of many would be using Occams Razor.
- Location
- Limousin
I think all you can say is he received tuition in them, which is to be expected. Pity his English isn't a bit more coherent.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
I think he is actually quite daft. Academic intelligence(s) has always had a fairly low correlation with the making of good choices. He does not appear to exhibit strong levels of wisdom or integrity. Therefore the mental gymnastics that his brain may be capable of performing do not seem to advance his capabilities for the job in which he finds himself.
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
ask any miner if they had the choice would they allow there children to work in the pit when they leave school
every one would say take a different job
every one would say take a different job
caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
Would be a good job to put all the illegal immigrants to.
Got to be better than where they've come from.
Maybe I've just solved the problem?