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  1. mikeyjh

    O/T Orgreave.

    None required, I've been called worse.
  2. mikeyjh

    O/T Orgreave.

    It's not me! I am a Ram - Blimey, last thing I'd be is smug, one would need something to be smug about! We've been largely sh1t since I was about 4
  3. mikeyjh

    O/T Orgreave.

    You've got me there, what are you on about?? ???
  4. mikeyjh

    O/T Orgreave.

    Then I'll just have to hold my hands up then! In fairness, you are being quite binary about it, like everything else there is a spectrum and I think that's what I'm trying to get at - I can't completely condone violence but when I look at the recipients it tempers any condemnation.
  5. mikeyjh

    O/T Orgreave.

    Not really, I don't think it's okay to be honest and that's what makes me squirm a bit. I shouldn't like the fact that there were protestors engaged in violence but part of me knows that the police got what was coming. I'm not a police hater but my encounters with them and experience of them...
  6. mikeyjh

    O/T Orgreave.

    It was admitted in court, at the trial of the 95 miners that lies were told, also few people have ever challenged the reports that witness statements were altered and 'aligned'. The IPCC and the DPP have since accepted that there was perjury, I think Soulman is on fairly safe litigious ground.
  7. mikeyjh

    O/T Orgreave.

    If you ever went to a football in the 80s or attended a demo in the 80s/early 90s you'd know this was absolutely true, they were many who were simply hired thugs rather than keepers of the peace. Not proud of it but it still makes me happy that at least some of them got a shoeing at the Poll...
  8. mikeyjh

    O/T Orgreave.

    Photo that encapsulates the 80s for me, the bitch's war against the unions and a decade that is reflected fondly in the middle class south and not so much up north. Family friends had that photo on the wall, never forgot it and probably changed the way I thought about the police and government.
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