@bully185@JimWhite Had the pleasure of working with John ivor in Blaenant & Tower. A Liverpool fan through and through & dare I say it like no other. RIP Butty.
@Andythefireman Not done an update for awhile. And I’ve been off on long term sick past 5 months But what I’m seeing with newer qualified is if you come up to traffic queue it’s lights on & horns off and wait for cars to move. Rather than making progress with horns.
“You will be able to look and say with pride that in 1984 you took part in a struggle, not only to save your pits and your jobs and your communities and your culture, but in the process you retained your dignity as human beings.”
Arthur Scargill speaks #OnThisDay 1984.
PERFECT TV?
I remember watching this at the time and it has stayed with me ever since. An incredibly powerful example of the futility of trench warfare. The final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth was first broadcast this week back in 1989.
Arguably the most poignant end to a TV show. They made us laugh for years and suddenly we felt what it was like to lose them.
We will remember them.
For our tomorrows, they gave their today.
#lestweforget #remembrance
Clip from @BBCArchive
Sean Lock (RIP) on Russell Brand in 2014.
"The reason I hate him so much is because I'm a dad and I have this fear that my daughters will bring something like that home."
#OnThisDay 1984. Labour leader Neil Kinnock says he is too busy to speak at a series of rallies in support of the #MinersStrike
In a letter to Arthur Scargill the Labour leader wrote he was “already fully committed to a series of longstanding engagements which cannot be broken.”