Health and Safety advisers in Grantham

             A Scab is no Son of Mine

 

“Crossing a picket line of over 800 angry miner’s  is not an easy thing to do. The dilemma I found myself in was quite simple, I did not believe that a strike would solve anything, I felt that holding the country to ransom was immoral. The casing point that made the decision once and for all was Arthur Scargill’s refusal to give us, his member’s, the fundamental right of a national ballot. Although I was against the strike from the outset had we been given a national ballot and had that ballot resulted in a majority in favour of strike action then I like all the other miners that crossed the picket lines in 1984 would be out on strike without question. That after all is democracy. Men and Women in English history have died fighting for the right of a democratic vote, in a lesser way that is what I and others like me did, we fought for democracy. My closing remark on that, is that the only way to have kept the pits open albeit lesser in numbers was to work them, not abandon them for a whole year.”

You will find this book funny, sad, and with a good insight to what life was like in the coal mines before the strike of 1984-85. We were approached by Stephen Whyles to publish this book and we feel privileged to be presented with what we feel is a masterpiece for a first time Author, We the publisher have taken the unusual step of  promoting this work to TV companies in the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and South America with the hope that at least one of them well take this work and make it what we feel it should be. A hard hitting screen play or TV film. We submitted this work to critics in the United States and they simply could not put it down. We strongly urge Stephen to write more books as we feel that he has a natural talent of putting his feelings into word format so much so that the reader feels it with him.