keg Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 I lived near Newbury as Greenham was closing down and sadly i admit to knowing some real commies is the closet who seem to think it was all down to CND and the ladies. What do we think- for those of us old enough to know what i am talking about.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 No, they were just a distraction! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welsh1 Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 No they were controlled and contained,but i remember stopping by them on one protest in a military truck and they were about 20 feet away,they honestly stank it was so rank i wound my window up and it was a boiling hot day. Isn't there a peace garden still there ,but it gets vandalised on a regular basis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted July 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 There is Rob, I've never seen it vandalised but it's by one of the gates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 I don't think they've gone away; didn't they just become the green party? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fern01 Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 I lived near Newbury as Greenham was closing down and sadly i admit to knowing some real commies is the closet who seem to think it was all down to CND and the ladies. What do we think- for those of us old enough to know what i am talking about.. NO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poontang Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 I lived near Newbury as Greenham was closing down and sadly i admit to knowing some real commies is the closet who seem to think it was all down to CND and the ladies. What do we think- for those of us old enough to know what i am talking about.. They were an irrelevance and nothing more than a minor irritant to the authorities. Reagan and Gorbachev brought about the end of the cold war, with a fair smattering of help from Mrs Thatcher. Ah, to have a few politicians of their ilk around today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Did we pay to keep them there? Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickS Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Whether you agree with them or not, sometimes people have to stand up for what they believe in and without such protests, politicians can get away with whatever they like away from the public gaze. As with any campaign, for every person who camped out, there were many more sympathetic to their cause, just as there were those who disagreed but didn't attempt to break up the protest. Who really knows if they did any good or not? Are the politicians encouraged to take bold steps if they know that there is some support for them to do so? The missiles have gone and nobody was annihilated anyhow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxfordshooter Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 If you like a good conspiracy theory then lets start taking about how likely it was that the the green/anti nuclear movement, the miner's leadership and the Labour Party were all infiltrated by the Soviets in the 1980's for the purpose of destabilising the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieT Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 I think that probably, in its own small way, yes it did. I would like to think that public opinion does shape government policy and, as history has shown many times, yesterdays crackpots have gone on to become today's heroes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 If you like a good conspiracy theory then lets start taking about how likely it was that the the green/anti nuclear movement, the miner's leadership and the Labour Party were all infiltrated by the Soviets in the 1980's for the purpose of destabilising the UK. Thats not a conspiracy thats a fact beyond doubt but it started a long way further back than the 80s it started in the 50s. The trade union movement had always been Neo Communist as was the CND movement.When I was at college it was really in your face. The Workers Revolutionary Party and CND in particular were everywhere. The Greenham Common women were more New Age than anything from my recollection but they found a form of celebrity and enjoyed the limelight it brought with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ordnance Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 No there were lots of reasons for the cold war ending, or should I say taking time out. But the Greenham ladies were not one of them, if anything they and they had being successful stopping the missiles being stationed , it could have prolonged it. I am sure they were popular among the Russian military. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clakk Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 (edited) as already posted ,the smelly cows werent popular with us "day trippers" sent from Tidworth to guard the fence.all they did was pecker your head with drivel.being told your a fascist tool of a Thatcherite dictatorship by some spoilt rich bint who didnt get that in the soviet workers paradise she,d been shot for such antics was annoying.But as already posted made no impression on the powers that be.They gave free publicity to the Soviet side making us look like the war mongers yet totally didnt understand how outgunned we really were Edited July 12, 2015 by clakk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted July 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 If you like a good conspiracy theory then lets start taking about how likely it was that the the green/anti nuclear movement, the miner's leadership and the Labour Party were all infiltrated by the Soviets in the 1980's for the purpose of destabilising the UK. And financed by them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudpatten Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 I thought they were truly wonderful. Enabling me, as it did, to earn vast amounts of overtime. And yes, by God, they were horribly rancid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted July 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 I thought they were truly wonderful. Enabling me, as it did, to earn vast amounts of overtime. And yes, by God, they were horribly rancid! Most of em are now up here near Menwith Hill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMcC Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Some of them were very well educated tho, spoke ever so posh and when they swore in their posh voices it did things to me ;-) They should have all been conscripted into the Army and formed a unit of Amazons, A crowd of them coming towards you screaming and banging tin cans would have turned a battalion of tanks back. Metal Mickey and Blue Joyce spring to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Workingclassgirl Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 Metal Mickey and Blue Joyce and the Greenham posse. Hardly the sweetest girls in all the world. Delusional and attention seeking more like. And did Greenham contribute to the end of the Cold War - no just gave feminism a bad name and detracted from real issues facing real women Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocette Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 Most of em are now up here near Menwith Hill! Where abouts are they now ? I used to see them at the side of Skipton road and sometimes near the main gate on the Dacre/Greenhow road. A chum was on security there and a few of us used to go to the dances on the base,,,,,,,,deep underground past the bowling alley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenshooter Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 (edited) as already posted ,the smelly cows werent popular with us "day trippers" sent from Tidworth to guard the fence.all they did was pecker your head with drivel.being told your a fascist tool of a Thatcherite dictatorship by some spoilt rich bint who didnt get that in the soviet workers paradise she,d been shot for such antics was annoying.But as already posted made no impression on the powers that be.They gave free publicity to the Soviet side making us look like the war mongers yet totally didnt understand how outgunned we really were Met a few of those in my time... Edited September 27, 2015 by Glenshooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cambsman Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 It ended cos they ran out of money. The yanks basically bankrupted them as per their plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol p Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 No, they just became government which is even more dangerous. These are people who don't know the difference between **** and wet clay. As Ive said, dangerous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.w. Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 I know one of these ladies she's married a doctor friend of mine but I would describe her as crackers, to this day she's proud of handcuffing herself to the railings, her grandchildren haven't a clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clakk Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 has she had a bath yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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