Lions on Strike
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Brilliant topic ... Personally I believe people sympathise with strikers until the strike affect them, then their views change drastically! ...
The UK Miners strike 1984
Growing up I remember the miners strike that tore many communities apart.
The mines in question were the coal mines.
At that time, coal was the main source of fuel to generate electricity. The UK had oil and gas but it was in its infancy at this time.
I don't actually know what the reasons for the strike were.
I do know it divided families.
As the strike dragged on and on for months, lots of miners went back to work as they needed money.
There were picket lines, where the striking miners would congregate to try and create a blockade preventing working miners enter the mine.
Of course skirmishes ensued and police horses and policemen would attend.
The miners then despised the police and to this day those communities are still divided and the police not liked.
Thinking about it, that was when the police were hard.
Now policing here means bending over backwards to be woke.
I better stop before I go on a rant about the state of the UK today.
The NUM National Union of Mineworkers was led by Arthur Scargill I remember his name. He of course demanded his members strike and not work.
There were picket lines, with working miners being called scabs. Families were divided as some men would work and their brothers and fathers would not for example...
The union leaders of course get paid.
It is funny how all these regimes demand their members and citizens do without while they have everything.
This was one of the last demolitions of a mine.
Where I live now, Fife was a huge coal mining area.
These photographs I took were from a local exhibition to celebrate (is that the right word) the 40th anniversary of the miners strike.
I know we used to have power blackouts, which meant keeping a stock of candles handy.
Funnily enough we had not had power cuts for years and years until Saturday, two days after a new governement was elected, we had a power strike.
Labour party is in power and we have a power cut, god help us.
I sympathise with the strikers ...
say so many people ....
Until the strike affects them...
We often have strikes now. Primarily amongst the health service, the junior doctors have been have periodic strikes for months even years now.
Train drivers and other train staff have had lots of strikes.
Like I said it is all fine and dandy, but when things affect you then you are not so sympathetic.
Most of these strikes are to do with pay and pay rises.
Well we all are struggling with the cost of living.
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This article is an entry for this month's Inleo writing initiative #julyinleo
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Today's prompt is Day 7 ! Have strikes and protests in your country affected your life?
All ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated, note lead image is generated with AI on pixlr .com from a prompt by me.The other photographs are all orginal and taken by me the author.
