IRA BRIGHTON BOMBING 30TH ANNIVERSARY

GRAND HOTEL BRIGHTON

My view: When the IRA done their devastating in Ireland and eventually on the mainland of Britain the USA did not only not lift a finger to stop it but financed it. Yet, they always make sure that Britain get roped in when they started a war somewhere. Nice Friends!!!!

On 12 October,1984, the Conservative Party held their annual conference in Brighton. 2014 made it the 30 anniversary when the Ira planted a bomb in the Grand Hotel in Brighton.  The Ira planned to kill the whole British Government including Margaret Thatcher.

At 2.54am the bomb went off and killed five people and injured 31. Some were injured more then the others.

Lord Tebbit remembers it very well when the whole four floors disintegrated and they fell down.  His wife’s spine was crashed and she is still in a wheelchair. When the debris stopped fallen they were trapped. 

The bomber Patrick Magee checked into the Hotel few weeks before and put the bomb under the bath with a long timer in Room 629. He was jailed for 14 years and released due to the Good Friday Agreement which brought finally an end to all the killing in Northern Ireland and bombing there and on the mainland Britain. In those days there was every week some news of killing or bombing by the IRA. They fought hard to get Northern Ireland off Britain and unit it with Ireland.  Yet, in Northern Ireland there were not only the Catholics but also the Protestants, descendant of English ancestors who were determined to keep Northern Ireland as part of Britain. The result was a lost of murders, beating up and bombing.  The tope of the list was the Brighton bombing of which there was never such attempt to kill the whole British Government since the Gunpowder Plot under Westminster in 1605.

Lord Tebbit would only agree to meet Magee if he would reveal the name of the people who planned it and gave the order. This is very doubtful and therefore we can guess for sure that they will never meet.

According to Lord Tebbit the hero of them all was the senior fireman Fred Bishop.  He said to the other firemen: “Chaps, you know the rules. If that was a bomb we would have to wait for the bomb squad to give the all clear. I think it was a gas explosion, don’t you?” Without him many more people would have died because it would have taken too long to be brought out from the debris.

At the anniversary commemoration there was also Patrick Magee asked to attend. Jo Berry, 57, daughter of Sir Anthony who died there, asked Magee and she will be sitting side by side to demonstrate of two people sitting there and listening with respect to each other’s story.  She stated that she wants to bring something positive out of the trauma losing her father.

ARTHUR SCARGILL BATTLE OF ORGREAVE ANNIVERSARY -- Update: 3 Jan., 2018

Update 3 Jan., 2018 -- Ever since miners, Unions and public try to discover the truth and bring it out into the open but to no avail. It convinces the people that there is a lot of truth hidden by the Governments and they are afraid of to be known with very good reasons.

Lately, a scandal revealed that 1000s of files involving Orgreave, Northern Ireland, Potatoes famine in Ireland and other scandals have been 'missing' or destroyed. It says everything about their devious dealings of Tories' Government.

How much longer has the people to suffer on the hands of May and her zombies dishing out one scandal after another?  

UPDATE:  Now Cameron finishes what Margaret Thatcher started.  He closes the last five Coal Mine and imports coal from China. It does not make sense, the cost of transport and pollution and payments of Welfare benefits to thousands of miners.

ARTHUR SCARGILL

Arthur Scargill, 76, the former miner's leader remembers the Battle of Orgreave 30 years ago. He was the worst thorn in Margaret Thatcher's side. Scargill was certainly a hard headed fighter but all about the right to work and not to lose the miners their job. Orgreave was a coking plant and he revisited the site outside Rotherham, South Wales, which is now a wasteland. He made a YouTube video at the 30 anniversary on 18 June, 2014.

On the 18 June, 1984 around 10,000 pickets assembled at the Oregreave Coking Plant and 5,000 police confronted them with mounted police officers. Most of them were brought in from over the border which was illegal and only revealed recently. The mounted police inflicted many serious injuries on the pickets. Scargill stated that it was the bloodiest clash with the miners. He was involved in most of the picketing of the miners. There is no doubt they fought long and hard to keep their jobs and the mines open.

Thatcher in her cushy, comfortable chair in 10 Downing Street should have had all the respect for these men.
Instead she paid the police double and treble time. They were boasting afterwards that they bought houses, cars and paid for overseas holidays which was unheard of amongst public. In that quarter money was no object as long they could close the mines.

Going down a coal mine, thousands of feet below, to get the coal out is one of the hardest jobs. For generations these families been doing it and were dedicated to their jobs. Jobs so dangerous that death was lurking at them all the time. Many mines disaster happened over the centuries, some quite devastating, but all that did not count with Margaret Thatcher.

At the beginning of the last century women and children were working underground, at some very cramped and bad conditions. Coal on which the whole industrial revolution was built. How could Margaret Thatcher forget that or just brushed it aside? On top of it they put up a fight never seen before just to keep their jobs.

Arthur Scargill the former President of the National Miners Union kept refusing any interview for the last 30 years. When he visited the site he worn the same cap from 30 years ago and said: "Thirty years ago to the day since I was knocked unconscious by the paramilitary force purporting to be a police force. On that day Holy Hell was let loose. Our only crime was fighting to save an industry."

Margaret Thatcher not only closed the mines and thousands of miners lost their jobs over night but she destroyed whole communities which were closed. After 25 years they still feel the after effect and have not recovered yet. She and the Tories can really be proud of themselves.

Ex NUM vice-president Ken Capstick made a video and Mr Scargill spoke on it: "I warned in 1983 and 1984 that the National Coal Board and Government intended destroying the industry. I was called a liar and it wasn't until 2014 that Government papers, published for the first time, revealed I told the truth."

THE REAL DICTATOR WAS MARGARET THATCHER -   NOT SCARGILL
SHE WAS NICKNAMED "DICTATOR WITH A HANDBAG" BUT SUN'S OWNER WAS A VERY, VERY 
CLOSE FRIEND OF THATCHER

When the phone hacking scandal broke lose it came to be known that the whole top staff including the owner were all close to Thatcher and the Tories. Yet, The Sun tried to make out to be a working man's newspaper. Mr Murdoch immediately went to America and from there he criticised and belittle Britain; yet he made his money here. He is that sort of character. It would be interesting to know if he still supports the Tories?

Murdoch came back for the General Election in 2015 and spread nothing but smears and lies about the Labour Party. On that the Tories won again and now destroying the country and people

THATCHER'S PIT CLOSURES DECADES AGO PEOPLE STILL SUFFER

MARGARET THATCHER 
AND DAVID CAMERON 
WHO IS EVEN WORSE

It is remarkable how these people survived at all after Margaret Thatcher closed down their major employment almost over night. 

They deserve all the respect for putting up a tremendous fight at the time but Margaret Thatcher used the police force in every way she could and not always legally. 

Quite a number ended up having a criminal record which would floor them even more. What was the real reason behind Margaret Thatcher so was bent over backward to close the mining industry? Was it to break the power of the Union which she hated because they had the power to oppose her? Was it to increase her husband's oil industry?

Today there is an enquiry going on to find out the real reason behind it because the mines were not uneconomically. Another Tory con. After closure the miners were thrown onto the unemployment benefits instead of earning a honest day money. Not very clever, was she? She should have sent her precious son down there it would have made a man of him. 

These men done a job for generation which would have killed any ordinary person. They had to live down there with death constantly at their elbow. Then Margaret Thatcher sitting comfortable in Westminster earning a sky high salary and expenses which covers her bills.

She ended her final days living in a top floor apartment in the Ritz and receiving a £450,000 pa pension. Then she demanded a State Funeral like Churchill and Cameron organised it costing £1million. People were up in arms but the press started to talk about respect to the dead and they calmed down otherwise there would have been nasty scenes which she deserved. 

Today, after decades 5.5million still feel the after effects. In the former mining areas the people suffer of deprivation, ill health and high unemployment. The thick nerve of closing down all these mines and just left the people to it can only come from a Tory.

Employment rages between 2 per cent to 7 per cent in those areas. The average jobs availability is 50 out of 100 while the national rate is 67.  Health issues are on average 43 per cent in mining communities while it is 30 per cent in the most deprived areas.

This report was put together on the 30th anniversary of the Orgreve picket battle during 1984-85 during the miners' strike.  Professor Steve Fothergill. research leader at Sheffield Hallam University, said: "The pit closures may now be receding into history, but the consequences are still all too visible. Job losses of the 80s and 90s still cast a very long shadow."

Peter McNestry of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust said: "This report really brings home the scale of deprivation faced by 5.5 million people for more then a quarter of a century. We cannot simply turn our backs on more the five million people."