So Rudd made a sensible decision.
There will be no inquiry into the notorious events at the so-called “Battle of Orgreave”, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced.
It was 1984. Thirty two years ago. No one died. No one did gaol time. It’s history. Rudd’s decision was pragmatic and sensible. Those who may have made dodgy decisions are long retired, dead or both. It’s time to let the past lie. We don’t need a campaign, we don’t need taxpayers’ money spunked up the wall on nothing – for that is what it amounts to. The past is done. An inquiry won’t change history. Let it lie. It seems Amber Rudd has this one right. Good.
Perhaps now people will stop nursing thirty-year old grudges and get on with their lives. Not much hope of that, I suspect.
Winston Smith works as a clerk in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to rewrite historical documents so they match the constantly changing current party line.
Applying today’s wretched PC standards to the past is how The Ministry of Truth will spring into being, one day.
I believe that this so called battle occurred when a bunch of lefties turned violent because they weren’t getting their own way. Of course, if the moaners got their inquiry and that was what the inquiry concluded, they would want another one that gave them the answer that they wanted.
The miner’s strike was little more than a thinly disguised attempt to overthrow a democratically elected government. I was a committed lefty at the time, and I sided with Thatcher in her battle with the unions for I preferred her to the unelected Marxist scumbag Scargill.
We know what happened. There is nothing to see here – unless you are determined to keep picking away at old wounds.
Considering there was Liebour government between 1997 and 2010 it is odd that the very people protesting now were silent then. Burnham rejected over 40 calls for inquiries into the National Death Service at Staffs but sets himself up as somehow angelic in his demands for “justice”. Scargill had (and indeed has) zero respect for democracy and used the miners gullibility to attempt to overthrow a democratically elected government. In many other countries he and his cohorts would have had a fair trial and if lucky disappeared into the Gulags. The violence committed by the miners, including murder, has been conveniently airbrushed out of history. Normal procedure for the left of course.