Comments on: MEP opposes European Union’s free trade agreement talks with Colombia

By: edith crowther

edith crowther — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:17:14 +0000

Have only just seen this important article, with its good news about the Miners (unionised or not) approaching the BNP for support. The fact is, that native Coal is already the greenest form of energy available to us because it is local. It is also Green because it is too late to stop climate change, whatever caused it, and in fact climate change chaos is needed to save the whole planet from overdevelopment. So it is actually more Green to boost your carbon dioxide output.

I am sitting by a coal fire, warm as toast and the fire has used little coal all day and will keep glowing overnight. Soon a second-hand coal-fired Aga will be delivered, this will heat water and replace central heating. It will cost virtually nothing compared to gas and oil and electricity. And the coal merchant is 5 miles down the road, with a heavy local accent. People burn a lot of wood too, round here. As for nuclear, it will cost too much – and the world has reached peak uranium already. Unless they find some under the melting polar ice. But nuclear power plants need to be near the sea, or a big river. Oops – they had better be on stilts from now on.

By: watson

watson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:11:14 +0000

thatcher crippled the working mining class she made millions unemployed what for to import it form another country and lobour carrying on her legasey puffff get shot, granted manny lives were lost down the pits but there is other ways of mining the coal. my family were workign class coal minners i know they would go down the pits tomorrow to provid money for there family it was a rise but a rise they were willing to take since then. thers millions still on the dole that have no erge to ern money thats thatchers doing. am currently unemploeyd and ad take a job down the mines hard days pay for a hard days graft. go bnp

By: littlenan

littlenan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:52:16 +0000

I would not put it past this government to give our black gold away to the EU too, just to show what good little citizens of Europe they are, hoping this will work in their favour when they want the top jobs such as President.

By: littlenan

littlenan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:46:38 +0000

My father worked in Keresley Colliery, Coventry. He wasn't a communist. In fact I don't think he was interested in politics at all. He just did his work and got his wages. He died from a chest cancer connected with mining so, although I believe we should mine our own coal, the miners need to be more protected than my dad was.

By: littlenan

littlenan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:39:18 +0000

Is Arthur Scargill still alive. I cannot remember if he is or not?

By: imnokuffar

imnokuffar — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:35:19 +0000

I suppose next we will be getting letters from "Liberty" and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance, the Muslim Council of Great Britain, David Cameron, Gordon Brown and the Taliban. All asking our counsel and support of course. If the letter from the NUM is true then I suggest we publish it. Sorry to be so negative, but I just refuse to believe it. And I trust this site implicitly – surely this has got to be an error ? If not, I apologise in advance.

Eric

By: imnokuffar

imnokuffar — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:53:43 +0000

The NUM wants our support ! My God, not long ago we were being vilified by the top echelons of this organisation. They have obviously lost all hope in the New Labour Project and are shit scared of what comes afterwards when Cameroon comes in – we have to be realists and accept this probablility or near certainty. I was on the picket lines supporting the miners and collecting food and donations for them. I will never forget thier heroic struggle. I was there when the police on horses charged us at Orgreave and we had to scatter to the four winds. I saw the police smashing truncheons into the faces of defenceless workers. I saw the martial law clampdowns on pit villages, curfews after 8 or 9 at night. I saw people penniless, bereaved of thier beloved industry thrown on the scrapheap whilst yuppies drank thier blood. I was there ! I was unemployed for 2 years. I helped in the soup kitchens – never forget. However, Scargill was to blame, he played right into thier hands and betrayed his own kith and kin being the self righteous hypocrital communist that he is. I hope he rots in hell for his crimes against the british proleteriat.

By: Brianmurphy

Brianmurphy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:16:46 +0000

Sparks,

It's all well and good to say get the prisoners down the pits if we don't have enough miners, but the fact is most prisoners are all fucked up on heroin and can't get out of bed unless it's for their daily methadone fix.
Can you imagine trying to get a load of smack-heads to mine coal? All they'd do while down the pit is sleep and throw up, which would be all well and good if we could run power stations on vomit.

I spent a year in prison, so I know what sort of people are in there and not all prisoners are scum.
Some really do not deserve to be there and would be more than happy to do hard work down a pit for a fair wage, instead of having to thieve to clothe and feed their kids, but then some of the people in prison should be used as the fuel for power stations, not mine it.

By: Powys

Powys — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:00:33 +0000

Not all mines are capable of operating at a profit and the possiblility of making a profit is the best measure of whether any economic activity ought to be persued. It is a fact that many mines in the past were uneconomic; moreover, they were being worked by men who were captive to a Union that was highly influenced by the former Soviet Union. That Union's leadership, in my candid opinion were traitors to Britain. Now, with that off my chest, it is a fact that Britain's ability to create wealth has been seriously undermined (pardon the pun) by the decline of our national coal extraction business. We need to indentify those mines worth production efforts and equip them with the most modern methods and operate them full blast. Do we need tariffs to ensure their success? MOST CERTAINLY!!! They need protection from ANY country that pays substandard wages and operates in violation of most safety and human rights standards. This is another reason why we need to preserve our sovereignty from intrusive EU legislation.

By: KBO

KBO — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:52:09 +0000

Come on BNP'ers, Digg Digg Digg for our miners!! xD

By: samcash

samcash — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:50:43 +0000

What a lot of people do not know about that scumbag scargill is during the minors strike,while he was encouraging the miners not to give up the fight,a lot of them lost their homes etc.In the meantime Scargil took delivery of a brand new Bentley,it was tucked away in a garage in Great Harwood (Blackburn) I witnessed this as the place was owned by a person I Knew. He also purchased a bungalow under his in laws name.Also what happened to the millions given to our miners by Russia? It couldnt come to the UK as Thatcher had frozen NUM Bank accounts.It went to France and the only people who had access to it was Scargill and a French Union boss.Not a penny of it came to the UK miners.

By: Goodsense

Goodsense — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:55:04 +0000

A union turning to us for help. Why do they not go to their labour masters. Do they not have their best interests at heart, have they not always put their welfare first. They are the ones in power. Perhaps I do the ordinary members a disservice, but I think it's time the NUM and others got off the fence and said openly they support the BNP and it's policy of "British Jobs for British workers" and by British it means true native Britains.

By: warren peas

warren peas — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:18:42 +0000

Communist infiltration of the unions signalled the beginning of the end of our coal and manufacturing industries. Communist infiltration of the liblabcon signalled the beginning of the end of Britain. We are fast approaching tipping point and the people must be made aware that the BNP is their only hope.

By: robstew48

robstew48 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:09:37 +0000

You must look at the wider picture .Colombia is almost at war with Venezuela.
America dos not like the boss of Venezuela there by we are not to like Venezuela
So when the war between them starts we have to help Colombia to protect our interests.
So enlarging the new world order in South America.
Perhaps i see conspiracy every where? or perhaps i am right.?.

By: Jeb Stuart

Jeb Stuart — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:41:17 +0000

Me too. I cannot write more tha a few lines and that is too much for the site!!
Others seem to be able to write what they like.
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By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:41:16 +0000

Succinctly put, Sheriff.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:40:03 +0000

"remember these people are close cousins to Soviet Russia mass murderers and their ilk.": You can forget Commies (and ill-informed Americans whose name you forget): miners were, mostly, hard-working, salty, Left-Wing (in the traditional, not Soviet, sense) and died young and poor so that Britain's turbines turned and Britain stayed warm in winter.
The former mining towns and villages are now all but ghost towns and the strikers of '84 are now 25 years older. That means the younger ones had to find other work (if any) and the older ones are almost certainly dead (mining reduces life expectancy, in case you didn't know).
The NUM now exists in name only.
Rather than froth at the mouth, research and think about what you say: you dishonour many good men, such as my wife's father, who, though 58 during the Strike, felt that he had to support the younger men in their fight to preserve their livelihood. All for nothing, of course, because the Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Sun, the BBC, etc. (just as now) happily took orders from government on how to report the politically active.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:39:36 +0000

Revisionist:
I am guessing that you weren't an adult in 1984-5.
The Miners' Strike was the result of insanely over-subsidised coal, a huge and unionised workforce, a charismatic and politically-motivated union leader and a malignant prime minister who stood by while mines closed without any investigation as to their being profitable, or not. A heady mix and always likely to explode.
(contd.)

By: TrueBrit

TrueBrit — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:59:12 +0000

Importing coal from Columbia is like 'taking coals to Newcastle'. Nick is correct, we have adequate supplies of coal in Britain, so why import it from South America? Its another totally incomprehensible and obscene directive from the EU politburo. Go get 'em Nick, thank God we have you there!

By: John Clark

John Clark — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:41:30 +0000

Re Sasolberg synthetic fuel plant in the Free state South Africa, I worked there in 1982 as a piping draughtsman. It was using twelve to fourteen thousand tonnes of coal per day per day. There were many by products that were sold, the only thing they had no use for was the ash of which there was a
a couple of mountains next to the site. An engineer told me that it had taken them 20 years to generate that amount of ash whereas their two newer plants at Secunda had generated a similar amount in three years! Goodness knows how much coal was being used at the newer site. They were building a huge steel barrier and installing sprinkler systems to protect a vunerable part of the site as there had been rocket attacks by the ANC. Not needed now
as the ANC are in power! The system was bought from the Germans as SA had difficulty in obtaining oil during the apartheid years.