The concert in 1984.... I recall getting a round of applause at the time at a folk club near where I lived when I pointed out that by the time of the concert, over 80% of us had told Scargill to fuck off.

MacColl may have been this and that but his hate for the common people, if they didn't fit to his stereotype, made him a prize cunt. His songs such as Daddy etc just show hatred for normal working people whilst he was being lauded by the bastards who authorised thugs to remind men, me included, that their wives and children weren't well protected when they were at work. In my case, a note through the door stating the time my wife took the baby to nursery. That baby by the way became a miner himself till he finished his apprenticeship.

It wasn't a great moment Jim. It was an obscene party in London whilst we were dealing with split communities, bailiffs and the dying embers of an industry the idealist twats used and abused to attack a government.

Those miner's lamps? Not from the batch the 'met police nicked from Manton lamp cabin were they?