banjodeano Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 He took on the establishment, which is something that no leader is prepared to do today. The NUM were stabbed in the back by the Electricians Union. hahahaa....give us a break..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tardis Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 This country should be run by the unions whose members create its wealth, not the bankers and politicians who steal its wealth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Kept his own maybe, but ultimately the battle between him and Maggie led to a decimation of the mining industry. The mining industry was dead long before Scargill or Thatcher ever reached any level of power; it was one of a number of long-since-worthless nationalised industries that had been bleeding the country dry for two decades or more before we finally managed to rid of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gormenghast Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 How old are you..? do you actually remember it.? or are you just using bits what you have picked up.? They planned to close the pits.? Scargill fought to save them Old enough to have been there and seen the ridiculous goings on at Orgreave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELFIRE1 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Much better than the yellow bellied so called union leaders that we have today. It is time that we had another leader who dares to take on the corrupt system. It is time to get off our knees and take them on! I bet this soon disappears! Aye, a man of the people was our Arthur. Ever see his house, in its own grounds. Arthur did not suffer during the strike - in any way. Do you know Arthur's remuneration as head honcho. He lost many miners their jobs did our Arthur. King Arthur, what a waste of oxygen. A man of the people. Makes us all proud to be English. Regards Angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjodeano Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Old enough to have been there and seen the ridiculous goings on at Orgreave. Yeah it was ridiculous...but it still wasn't Scargill who wanted or chose to close the pits, so dont try and pin that silly one on him, he had his faults, but he was 100% dedicated to saving his members jobs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tardis Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 The mining industry was dead long before Scargill or Thatcher ever reached any level of power; it was one of a number of long-since-worthless nationalised industries that had been bleeding the country dry for two decades or more before we finally managed to rid of them. What a visionary maggie was to close all the mines. Fuel prices are so cheap today without the 200 years reserves of coal that she had buried! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gormenghast Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 but it still wasn't Scargill who wanted or chose to close the pits, ... It was obvious that pit closures would happen if the strikes carried on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 What a visionary maggie was to close all the mines. It's hardly visionary to do something that should have been done two decades earlier, before it sent the country bankrupt... By the time Thatcher came to power there wasn't even any choice to be made. The pits were going to close no matter who was in charge. Unfortunately, since we hadn't done it while we still had enough money to invest in re-training everyone but waited until after the country had gone bankrupt trying to keep them open ... there was an awful lot of suffering in coal-mining areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMoran Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Aye, a man of the people was our Arthur. Ever see his house, in its own grounds. Arthur did not suffer during the strike - in any way. Do you know Arthur's remuneration as head honcho. He lost many miners their jobs did our Arthur. King Arthur, what a waste of oxygen. A man of the people. Makes us all proud to be English. Regards Angel. I seem to remember him bumping his noggin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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