Mike Leigh's film may describe the tragic events of 200 years ago, but he puts a mirror up to an Establishment that in the last 40 years has turned police horses against strikers at Orgreave and applied 'kettling' techniques against protesters in London.
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Don’t thjnk any one at St. Peter’s threw concrete slabs off bridges or nails into horses
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they butchered the innocent our brave boys
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So interesting watching a nation commit suicide.
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Didn’t the same thing happen in Derry on Bloody Sunday
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I'd better start crafting multiple types of Apology statements, just incase I discover I hgav ea 1/1024th ancestor who happens to be involved in the... heinous purging of... flippy dippity buh-heurgh. ... I didn't read the article, but I have been drinking.
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