article_snippet.sent: while watching Pride, a British film released last year.
article_snippet.sent: It centres on the 1984 miners' strike and the plucky underdogs are a London-based group of gays and lesbians who travel to South Wales to express their solidarity with the local branch of the National Union of Mineworkers.
article_snippet.sent: The Full Monty (about a group of redundant Sheffield steelworkers forced to strip naked to make money)
article_snippet.sent: The film Pride achieves a double whammy by venerating not one but two sacred cows of the Left: bolshie unions and minorities (in this case, homosexuals).
article_snippet.sent: Naturally, it doesn’t take long for the union bosses to recognise that the life-and-death struggle faced by gays and lesbians is very similar to that of lesbians Welsh colliery members.
article_snippet.sent: Wringing every drop of emotion from Left-wing audiences, the director ends The film Pride with a scene showing bus-loads of miners turning up to support a gay pride march in London’s Hyde Park, as singer Billy Bragg’s
article_snippet.sent: In A Union comes blasting over the soundtrack.
article_snippet.sent: As with Pride, the dramatic heart of the story is a conflict between two groups of Left-wing activists who gradually learn to make common cause — in this case, male and female shop-floor workers.
article_snippet.sent: Brassed off starring Pete Postlethwaite and Ewan McGregor portrayed Margaret Thatcher as an orge .
highlights_snippet.sent: Movie centres on the 1984 miners' strike and a group of gays and lesbians .
  