No Orgreave Enquiry

[ivor4781]

good what waste of public money!
as said no charges were brought .no one died,and the miners gave as good as they got
move on

[youngmafbog]

Sorry AH but that is sheer nonsense.

It was not Mrs Thatcher that started the fight, Scargil did. TGL just finished it and now the sore looser labourites are looking for compo for 'injuries'.

[ToraToraTora]

10ClarionSt
"Thatcher was fully intent on eradicating all trade union power." - Yes that was what I liked about her.

[andy-hughes]

YMB - I did not suggest that Mrs Thatcher 'started the fight', and as I have confirmed, there would be no chance of any compensation after this length of time.

[CrapAtCryptics]

I agree wit Ivor - most of the people involved will probably have retired by now and as no one was significantly injured whats the point wasting all that time and money.

[ChillDoubt]

Now the campaigners want a judicial review:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37833391

Shame the family of David Wilkie didn't get justice at the trial of his killers.

Question for mikey: Do you think this had anything to do with the last Labour government not wanting an inquiry either?:

Kim Howells, the South Wales NUM official who commented on the killing of David Wilkie, later became a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party and served as a minister in the Blair government and later became chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, a committee of parliamentarians that oversees the work of Britain's intelligence and security agencies. In 2004 he said that when he heard that a taxi driver had been killed, he thought "hang on, we've got all those records we've kept over in the NUM offices, there's all those maps on the wall, we're gonna get implicated in this". He then destroyed "everything", because he feared a police raid on the union offices.

Furthermore, Scargill referred to the strike as a "war". I'm sure he had plenty of involvement in the 'battle' that subsequently took place.

[Peter Pedant]

good
saves giving the lawyers £100m to agonise over something from 30 y ago

[whiskeryron]

// But on the other hand, the fact that Cabinet papers are sealed for up to seventy years hints at the desire to protect Mrs. Thatcher's legacy, when there is little doubt that she perceived the miners as the enemy within to be crushed. The rumours are that she was directing police operations personally during the days that led up to Orgreave, behaviour which would lead to some serious questions about the level of power she was exercising over the legal system and appropriate application of police procedures and due legal process. // That dear ''Lady'' had a lot to answer for & the Tories should be thoroughly ashamed.

[Hopkirk]

If Maggie hadn't sorted out the unions, where would we be now?

[mushroom25]

there's currently two "campaigns for justice" going on, both have had their moment in the commons this week, both have issue with a regional police force.

which is more deserving - Orgreave, where nobody died and where nobody was wrongly convicted? or the families of the Birmingham pub bombing victims, in which 21 died, 182 were injured and 6 innocent men spent a very long time in prison?