Clyde Shipbuilding | Jimmy Reid | Clydebank | Trade Unions | This Week | 1971

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  • čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
  • 'This Week' travel to Clydebank where 10% of the male workforce are unemployed and where the livelihoods of thousands more is at risk due to to the potential closure of its dockyards and the refusal of the Government to give any additional money.
    Llew Gardner investigates
    First shown: 08/07/1971
    If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail:
    archive@fremantle.com
    Quote: VT60721

Komentáře • 37

  • @PaulEcosse
    @PaulEcosse Před 2 lety +24

    Jimmy Reid was the definition of a gentleman and a scholar.

  • @Scalihoo
    @Scalihoo Před 2 lety +12

    My grandparents worked on the ships in Glasgow 🚢

  • @Spookieham
    @Spookieham Před 2 lety +13

    Ships are still built in the upper Clyde but are entirely Warships and John Browns is long gone.

  • @PaulEcosse
    @PaulEcosse Před 2 lety +10

    Check out the Parky episode with Jimmy and Kenneth Williams on here, you don't see telly like that anymore.

    • @tonirose6776
      @tonirose6776 Před rokem +4

      Echo this: absolute inspiring and educational content.

    • @stephenholmes1036
      @stephenholmes1036 Před 7 měsíci

      How can i find it please

    • @PaulEcosse
      @PaulEcosse Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@stephenholmes1036 It's called Kenneth Williams and Jimmy Reid - Parkinson 1973

  • @donny4855
    @donny4855 Před 2 lety +11

    Much appreciate this type of content, thanks

  • @janeporter818
    @janeporter818 Před 2 lety +4

    Thanks for posting

  • @jasonayres
    @jasonayres Před 2 lety +11

    (1:43) The working class brethren of Holland (-"That's in the Netherlands" -) sent telegrams of support.
    To send money - hooray 🎉
    To send goods -
    Yippee 🎁.
    To adopt your kids -
    Hoo 🤔ah..
    What?!

  • @Spookieham
    @Spookieham Před 2 lety +14

    Jimmy Reid came from nothing and ended up respected by everyone no matter what side of politics they were on. He understood the dignity of labour and what a job meant to the social fabric of the area. A hero of mine despite having completely opposite politics.

    • @hazelwray4184
      @hazelwray4184 Před 2 lety +6

      'dignity of Labour' and the 'social fabric' - not concepts/concerns I'd associate with Margaret Thatcher and the Tories.

    • @Spookieham
      @Spookieham Před 2 lety +2

      @@hazelwray4184 yawn yet more left-wing bullshit.

    • @andrewrobinson8305
      @andrewrobinson8305 Před 2 lety +2

      If you understand the “dignity of labour” and the importance of employment, how can your politics be the opposite of his?
      How on earth can he be your “hero” if you directly disagree with his politics??

    • @majorsharpe5208
      @majorsharpe5208 Před rokem

      I knew nothing of him prior to him being featured as part of Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain series a couple of years back. That and his prominence in the BBCs recent: "something that belongs to all of us" promo campaign. Time to find out more I think!

    • @Myndir
      @Myndir Před rokem

      @@andrewrobinson8305 This is an opportunity for you to think. Take it.

  • @regplasma7906
    @regplasma7906 Před 2 lety +6

    7.43 The 55 year old jobless fella who seems obsessed with being shot , ironically when he left Scotland , before returning , used to work in a Gun Shop.

    • @italianstallion9170
      @italianstallion9170 Před rokem

      like the guy obsesses with being pulled off to death woring in a porno shop..!

  • @johndonaldson3619
    @johndonaldson3619 Před 2 lety +12

    This was 50 years ago and everyone interviewed is dead now...I wonder how their lives turned out following this film...

  • @patriciaoreilly8907
    @patriciaoreilly8907 Před 2 lety +11

    When the working class was respected by Governments . Now 3rd world working rights & conditions 0 hours & so called Labour have done nothing to get rid of 0 hours slave labour .

    • @whatamalike
      @whatamalike Před 2 lety +1

      How can they? They've not been kn government since 2010

    • @whatamalike
      @whatamalike Před 2 lety +5

      @@Kamina1703 to their credit, they are the party that introduced the national minimum wage and a big part of their manifesto in 2017 and 19 was to abolish Zero hours contracts. Don't tell me they'd do nothing.

    • @hazelwray4184
      @hazelwray4184 Před 2 lety

      @@whatamalike 2017 and 2019 - that wasn't the current shadow cabinet. Even Ed Milliband had a hard time from the Blairite wing.

    • @whatamalike
      @whatamalike Před 2 lety +3

      @@hazelwray4184 indeed it wasn't, but for people to dismiss as "Labour won't do bugger all", regardless of which wing is ruling, is disingenuous. I'd rather have a new Labour government than any sort of tory one that's for sure

    • @neilmclaughlin2347
      @neilmclaughlin2347 Před 2 lety +3

      @@whatamalike Here! Here!
      How can anyone be foolish enough to vote Conservative after the last couple of years (let alone at all…) and honestly say things are going well?
      Boris and Brexit?
      What a goddamn state this country is in.

  • @alanoneill3065
    @alanoneill3065 Před 17 dny

    Sad times...the end of Heavy Industry...was inevitable?

  • @petercofrancesco8979
    @petercofrancesco8979 Před 2 lety +2

    Does anybody ever remember Steptoe and son ... Harry and Dud . 🇬🇧

  • @noddyholder79
    @noddyholder79 Před rokem +1

    Reid wrote for The Sun FFS

  • @QuadMochaMatti
    @QuadMochaMatti Před 2 lety

    *M e d i a*