Battle of Orgreave inquiry ruled out

[DevAdvocate]

There will be no inquiry into the notorious events at the so-called "Battle of Orgreave", Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced. Thousands of miners and police clashed at the Yorkshire coking site in 1984.

Campaigners said officers led by South Yorkshire Police were heavy-handed and manufactured statements. However, Mrs Rudd said she did not believe there was "sufficient basis... to instigate either a statutory inquiry or an independent review". Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott described the decision as a "grave injustice", while Andy Burnham MP called it an "establishment stitch-up".

The statement added: "The campaigners say that had the consequences of the events at Orgreave been addressed properly at the time, the tragic events at Hillsborough would never have happened five years later.

**** off

 

[Ciaran]

Ooohhhh controversial.

 

[Girvan Loyal 1690]

All strikers should be beaten imho

 

[Benvenuto Cellini]

.

 

[Girvan Loyal 1690]

even Jim Garner?

Wee jimmy is world class

 

[monacoger]

****s saying Maggie shouldn't have closed down the mines, yeah because subsidising them year after year really helped the economy. Scum ****s.

 

[Ciaran]

****s saying Maggie shouldn't have closed down the mines, yeah because subsidising them year after year really helped the economy. Scum ****s.

Yeah the Government don't subsidise loss making industries

 

[Girvan Loyal 1690]

Yeah the Government don't subsidise loss making industries

They shouldn't anyway

Let them die

 

[Null]

Yeah the Government don't subsidise loss making industries

I agree to a point but coal was a dying industry ...

 

[monacoger]

Yeah the Government don't subsidise loss making industries

Name 5, that they have done for 5 years

 

[Ciaran]

Name 5, that they have done for 5 years

Why 5?

 

[Ciaran]

I agree to a point but coal was a dying industry ...

Why was it dying?

 

[monacoger]

Why 5?

**** knows to be honest but I reckon there must be at least one, so why would I give you the easy option. Ok, name 3

 

[monacoger]

Why was it dying?

Because the Chinese were selling it for less and the amount of money we spent getting it wasn't economically viable or maybe Maggie just wanted to piss off the northern monkeys?

 

[Ivan Dobsky]

**** knows to be honest but I reckon there must be at least one, so why would I give you the easy option. Ok, name 3

Lloyd's, RBS and Scotland.

 

[Girvan Loyal 1690]

Only joking troops. Keep everything in house is what I say. **** the chinks

 

[Ciaran]

**** knows to be honest but I reckon there must be at least one, so why would I give you the easy option. Ok, name 3

Farms.
Necluer power.
Call Centres.
Weapons industries.(BAE for example)

There'll be plenty more. Just this week they gave a nod and a wink to a Japanese car manufacturer.

 

[Ciaran]

Lloyd's, RBS and Scotland.

The banks are too much of an easy one.

 

[Null]

Why was it dying?

Was it not due to cheap French coal ?

And then fact most people and industries don't use it ? It started being fazed out ...

 

[Null]

If it's still used in terms of a viable fuel source I stand corrected...