I was on strike. I had the bailiffs in to prove it. I didn't get paid for two days a week at college either, although the NUM union rep at our pit contacted all apprentices and student apprentices to tell them that the NUM expected them to go to college.

Looks like The NUM did their bit to bring down the strike then? Some of us could have said that the minute John Scott, Manton NUM delegate went to the delegates meeting in Sheffield and reported Manton as voting to strike, when in fact, we didn't. I was there and it was over two thirds against. That's why two blokes from our pit managed to get NUM funds sequestrated. Unions either work in the interest of the wishes of their members or they have no mandate. Bankers are supposed to work in the interest of their customers. Same thing, different coloured collar.

You might have read about that when you picked up a copy of The Telegraph when you went to the local con club for a G&T?

We aren't all armchair warriors and some armchair warriors haven't always sat in armchairs.. Some were busy voting conservative eh Bridge?

I've never voted anything but Labour myself, but there again, I don't decry my own privileged existence from my armchair like some, me old duck.