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I did not watch it so have no opinions .
The below opinions are from 2 Yorkshire miners, I thought you might be interested in their views.
Miner 1
Another exercise in this bizarre form of ethnic cleansing that is relentlessly writing us out of history. They hate us and, by Christ, they show it.
As far as I am concerned it was cheapjack cr-p from start to finish.
The industrial tableau - we smashed that. No miners? Ermm, we smashed them. The NHS? Ah, yes, we are very busy smashing that. Celebrating the victories of the boss class.
The whole thing looked like a dismal rip off from the Lord of the Rings trilogy right to down to Hobbiton in the shape of that idiotic grassy knoll that made the members of the armed forces look ridiculous as they carted the Union Flag up it. Like the armed forces or not, they don't deserve that. Working class youngsters are getting killed in Afghanistan for that shower of sh-t in Downing Street.
It was a toxic comination of cringeworthy nostalgia wrapped in flash new technology. A friend of mine who loves to wallow in the pathos of all our defeats loved it. That tells me all I need to know.
We belong to a dying society, murdered by by the spivs, fops, bulliesand bankers who run the show.
There was nothing that showed inspiration, imagination or innovation. Beijing in 2008 was absolutely riveting. The memory will last for ever.
This was a plastic pantomime. It will only last in the memory of morons.
Just an opinion, like.
But, then, I'm biased.
Graeme.
Miner 2
Is it just me? With my ex-miner chip on my shoulder?
Or were the coalminers; the single most important industry; just totally erased from history in that portrayal of Industrial Revolution Britain?
Cheers
Phil
