Jarrow March reinactment failure

[FourWheelDrift]

Union supported (I'm not surprised), but as soon as they have to sign on, go back to university or their feet ache before even leaving Jarrow they abandon it.

Telegraph said:

Less than a week after hundreds left Jarrow in a blaze of publicity little over a dozen were still plodding towards London – and depending on lifts in a hired coach to keep the protest moving

Most of the protesters had pulled out complaining about sore feet or that they had to go home to sign on or to start university.

Six of them were also "injured" by the strain of walking including the chief organiser just as they approached Harrogate – 60 miles into the walk and 220 miles from the finish.

Robert Goodwill, Tory MP for Scarborough, said: "It is an insult to the memory of the Jarrow marchers who are held in high esteem across the political divide.

"They are not fit to walk in the footsteps of the Jarrow marchers. If this is their level of commitment no wonder they can't find a job.

"It must have been a big shock having to get up in the morning and march rather than watch Jeremy Kyle."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8814277/Re-enactme...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3860022/...

Posted both Sun and Telegraph items (similar) but I noticed "petemason" posting identical support messages saying "The march is still going strong, doing 20 miles a day, on schedule and generating an enormous amount of support from honest people." No, he's not a union plant I'm sure of that.....

[Zaxxon]

FourWheelDrift said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8814277/Re-enactme...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3860022/...

Posted both Sun and Telegraph items (similar) but I noticed "petemason" posting identical support messages saying "The march is still going strong, doing 20 miles a day, on schedule and generating an enormous amount of support from honest people." No, he's not a union plant I'm sure of that.....

Crikey, Robert Goodwill seems like a top bloke. Good effort for saying it like it is.

[AJS-]

Zaxxon said:

Crikey, Robert Goodwill seems like a top bloke. Good effort for saying it like it is.

I was thinking the same. Seems altogether too sensible for the Tory party.

[Blib]

The marchers will eventually arrive in London. And when they do, they will be joined by many others and the whole event will be reported as a resounding success.

[AJS-]

Blib said:

The marchers will eventually arrive in London. And when they do, they will be joined by many others and the whole event will be reported as a resounding success.

Yes, with the BBC pumping out documentaries about the original and "posing serious questions" about the nature of global capitalism, and it's ruthless, devil may care cutting of the rate of growth of public spending.

[sussexjob]

"It must have been a big shock having to get up in the morning and march rather than watch Jeremy Kyle."

sort of sums it up really !

[Wacky Racer]

In those days people really did have something to protest about, times were REALLY hard, these days some people think they are hard done by if they can't afford the latest 42" Plasma.

[Blib]

History repeats itself. First as tragedy, then as farce.

[CATS ARE BOXING]

The BBC are not so keen to cover this now, are they?

[fido]

Funny as i walk 5.5 miles a day as part of my commute. These guys are a f8cking joke.

[wolves_wanderer]

Guam said:

Wacky Racer said:

In those days people really did have something to protest about, times were REALLY hard, these days some people think they are hard done by if they can't afford the latest 42" Plasma.

Yep, 80% unemployment in some areas real starvation at work, indeed the marchers were dependant on food aid from local populations for the duration of the march.
Without which they could never have succeeded.

If it happened today most PHers would be moaning that the layabouts were strolling about the country rather than trying to find work.

[Rollin]

Had to check the Sun photos to see if the marchers had called it a "crusade". Thought not.

[NorthernBoy]

Guam said:

Even funnier there were Uni Students on this lol
They were hated by my forebears lol
On the original they would have been lynched lol.

That's strange. I come from a Northern working class family, and they all understood the benefit of education, and hoped that their children would have the chance to go to study and aspire to more than dying an early death from back-breaking work such as that in the mines.

I knew of no-one that revelled in being uneducated.

[MilnerR]

Very predictable, doing 12 hour days in ship yards is pretty good training for a march down to London, sitting on your arse in your mum's front room playing Halo isn't!

[NorthernBoy]

Guam said:

Not a student of history then
Try looking up the General Strike and the part sudents played in the breaking of it.

You may then realise the contemporary hatred that existed between Students and the working class back then.

You're painting with too broad a brush. There have always been plenty in the working classes who wanted their children to dine a way out, just like there are still people now who glory in denigrating the value of education.

And no, I'm not a student of history, those history students knew better than to hang around us scientists if they didn't want a kicking...

[mistergixer]

I'll bet none of them were humming Alan Price to keep their spirits up.



Now, yes, now is the hour!

[powerstroke]

Just a bunch of idle tossers with a overgrown sense of intitlement lazy and feckless at best.... Jarrow march my arse... yawn sleep:

[AJS-]

You can go and talk at them here

http://jarrowmarch11.com

[0a]

Oh dear (complete with PH baiting punctuation):

"Young people marching from Jarrow to London were amused by the pack of lies being printed in tomorrows telegraph, and surprised that the conservative partys publicity department would allow such a show of their true face."

http://jarrowmarch11.com/2011/10/07/tory-mp-claimi...

[baldy1926]

They should them on the BBC lunch time news.
Looked like there were loads of them.
Well about 15!!!!!
haha