Arthur Scargill makes me proud to be English!

[Tardis]

Yes - he was arrested - a concept which current union leaders some 40 office blocks away from where the action is need not fear.

 

Its a class thing from a bygone age where leaders lead their troops into battle but that got lost somewhere down the line and should have been re instated for the Iraq invasion as our brave lads were lead in by Blair the brave. (or not so as it turns out)

 

Scargill indeed led from the front. All todays leaders are "Follow me men, I am right behind you" types.

[callumandsam]

Having been invlolved in the strikes of '74, '76 and '84, i found that the only people that benefitted was the union officials. They "appeared" to be no more financially worse off than when they was at work, many, in fact, buying new cars etc shortly after the strikes ended. This, while the workforce struggled to get back on their feet having lost many weeks wages.

 

Scargill and "his cronies" ought to rot in hell for the damage they caused to the general workforce.

 

As far as being a failing industry, at the time, English coal was one of the cheapest to produce in the world, it was mainly foreign country subsidies that made it cheaper to import, and we are now paying dearly for the decisions made at that time

 

I agree with you Sir.

Arthur Scargill and his cronies were nothing more than rich (very) socialists.

Very much like Derek Hatton (Liverpool) and Ben Elton (He of the big gob)

[marshlad]

Margaret Thatcher makes me proud to be English. She put unions in their place. It is thanks to her that people like me can choose to join a union rather than being forced to join as part of the conditions of being offered the job. She deserves every honour she receives including a state funeral when she eventually goes. Remember the public never voted her out so she must have done something right.

[ricgem2002]

Margaret Thatcher makes me proud to be English. She put unions in their place. It is thanks to her that people like me can choose to join a union rather than being forced to join as part of the conditions of being offered the job. She deserves every honour she receives including a state funeral when she eventually goes. Remember the public never voted her out so she must have done something right.

and this lot are taking away your right s and trying to do the same with your union ?

[callumandsam]

ex maltby miner worked at maltby for 13 years from school 1980 to 1993 redaunt ,

 

i was in the miners strike so was the rest of my family , we all stayed out for the full year no money food came from food parcel donated by churchs, folks down london in my case i awas lucky i had father in law and mother in law who lived out at everton near bawtry my wife has relation that live and did work at harworth pit ,

 

right lets get a few things right 1972 strike was started by the miners which fecth every other union out the goverment at the time was tory ( heath ) geuss who was sat in the wings ready yes maggie sodding soon to be buried thatcher , she said well before she came into power she would kill the num for what we did to heath yes the coal resvers were full at power stations and yes arthur did benfit from the strike i know a few more that did but hey ho thats life its all ways been done ,

 

i lost my job so did many more , lucky maltby was moth bald then reopen in to private industry i chose not to go that way , to be honest the lads i worked with were proud to do it and they were bloody hard workers many new lads could not hack the work or go under ground , the country now is in the crap from maggie she butcherd the whole country when she was in power all this we are now in is from her .

 

next time any body comes up to me and says we had no back bone i will tell them go and tell that to the lads who gave there lives in the fight for a propper wage or job or liveing , the dicks who we have now in power are doing the same as what the stupid cow did in 1984 , killing the country

 

we want jobs not dole its crap been on dole the jobs that are out there dnt pay my bills,

 

if you want to know what a miner went through to give you warmth in your house back then go down the mineing musem then come back and say we are all whimps

 

from a ex maltby miner and bloody well proud to be 1

 

Are you also going to blame Tony Bair and the rest of the labour government for the plight we are in at the moment.We didnt see him wanting to reopen the pits and throw everyones hard earned taxes down a black hole to pay for a loss making industry where you got over inflated redundancy payments and pensions

[gnvqsos]

Margaret Thatcher makes me proud to be English. She put unions in their place. It is thanks to her that people like me can choose to join a union rather than being forced to join as part of the conditions of being offered the job. She deserves every honour she receives including a state funeral when she eventually goes. Remember the public never voted her out so she must have done something right.

 

I think you will find she retained powere due to the divided opposition,a direct consequence of the SDP,which has now withered due to its lack of a coherent set of policies and an absence of principles.

[Conrod]

Margaret Thatcher makes me proud to be English. She put unions in their place. It is thanks to her that people like me can choose to join a union rather than being forced to join as part of the conditions of being offered the job. She deserves every honour she receives including a state funeral when she eventually goes. Remember the public never voted her out so she must have done something right.

Indeed.

 

It's only in bitter parts of the North where people who used to work in dying heavy industries (which would have gone under soon enough anyway) blame her for their demise and vent their misguided hatred.

Most of the UK's population is in the South, and she remains very popular there.

 

Our best post-war PM - by a long way.

[xenia]

I agree with you Sir.

Arthur Scargill and his cronies were nothing more than rich (very) socialists.

Very much like Derek Hatton (Liverpool) and Ben Elton (He of the big gob)

 

Strange that like you I bunch Hatton, Scargill and Elton in the same category. Self seeking gangsters that would sell their mothers for their own advantage.

 

I was a member of the NUM throughout the strike and picketed in solidarity with my workmates. We were conned by Scargill. Whilst we were on the picket line senior members of the NUM were on holiday in Tenerife. They burned down the NUM office at Manvers to destroy the books containg the payments made to flying pickets. (hope you are reading this Frankie). Scargill bought a house in its own grounds just north of J38 of the M1. I lost my house.

 

Scargill sent men to Libya to get money from gaddafi and tried to get money from the Russians, even they turned him down.

 

He was a crook.

[xenia]

In retrospect, THANK GOD FOR MARGARET THATCHER . She was the only politician in this country with the guts to take him on.

 

Scargill and his ilk would have turned this country into Albania or Noth Korea.

 

I know, I was there.

[gnvqsos]

Indeed.

 

It's only in bitter parts of the North where people who used to work in dying heavy industries (which would have gone under soon enough anyway) blame her for their demise and vent their misguided hatred.

Most of the UK's population is in the South, and she remains very popular there.

 

Our best post-war PM - by a long way.

 

I did nt realise that dyeing took place in the North_ Iassumed it would be based round the textiles of Notts and Leics.

 

She is not very popular in London,Brighton and Portsmouth,the Brstolians hate her for closing Frys and Wills and reading hate her for widening the Thames corridor by putting extra lanes on the M4.That leaves Guilford and Southampton and the villages.