taxman Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Seems double standards to me that people want to put the boot in to Scargill for getting a £34,000 flat every year for the rest of his life but just look what Fred Goodwin is getting every year for the rest of his life, or George Entwistle or Tony Blair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Seems double standards to me that people want to put the boot in to Scargill for getting a £34,000 flat every year for the rest of his life but just look what Fred Goodwin is getting every year for the rest of his life, or George Entwistle or Tony Blair. It seems some people dont like their own kind to prosper,but are content to be ripped off by a "respectable elite". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Seems double standards to me that people want to put the boot in to Scargill for getting a £34,000 flat every year for the rest of his life but just look what Fred Goodwin is getting every year for the rest of his life, or George Entwistle or Tony Blair. It would be double standards if people were defending Goodwin, Entwistle and Blairs nice little earners while complaining about Scargill. I've not seen anyone doing that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bypassblade Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Don't worry King Arthur you'll make up the money when, the police are finally legally proven to be corrupt and manufactured yours and many others arrests at Orgreave (get in to sue them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puisseguin Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Don't worry King Arthur you'll make up the money when, the police are finally legally proven to be corrupt and manufactured yours and many others arrests at Orgreave (get in to sue them). They might not have any money left if Mitchell or the Liverpool fans get in first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bypassblade Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 They might not have any money left if Mitchell or the Liverpool fans get in first. True so very true, there is some serious compensation going to be paid out to people, I know most want the truth but it will come. I don't think any amount of money could be as sweet as being proved right, after being lied about and made out to be thoroughly bad & evil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vague_Boy Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Seems double standards to me that people want to put the boot in to Scargill for getting a £34,000 flat every year for the rest of his life but just look what Fred Goodwin is getting every year for the rest of his life, or George Entwistle or Tony Blair. The difference is that Arthur was supposed to be a devout socialist (I don't consider the war criminal Bliar to have ever made that claim). Arthur always reminded me the pig Napoleon in Orwell's Animal Farm. I'd put you down as Squealer: The mystery of where the milk went to was soon cleared up. It was mixed every day into the pigs' mash. The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls. The animals had assumed as a matter of course that these would be shared out equally; one day, however, the order went forth that all the windfalls were to be collected and brought to the harness-room for the use of the pigs. At this some of the other animals murmured, but it was no use. All the pigs were in full agreement on this point, even Snowball and Napoleon. Squealer was sent to make the necessary explanations to the others. ‘Comrades!’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vague_Boy Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Don't you lot realise that Arthur won that strike? 'I don't know whether you realise it or not, but we won that dispute. Why? Because while we were on strike, not a single mine closed down.' These days Arthur is leader of the "Socialist Labour Party". Surely that should be the Champagne Socialist Labour Party? When they are in Britain, Scargill and Nell [Myers] divide their time between various decidedly non-egalitarian properties: her neat terrace house near the Olympic site in East London; a flat in the Barbican in the City of London; and 'Treelands', a detached stone-built house on the fringes of Worsbrough, which Scargill bought just seven months after the strike ended for around £200,000 (about £420,000 at today's prices). To buy Treelands, he borrowed money from the International Miners' Organisation, of which he was president. The highly controversial purchase (made in his son-in-law's name to ensure that the house wasn't seized by the Official Receiver after the NUM's £10.7 million funds were sequestrated because they failed to pay strike-related fines) prompted the famous observation that its owner had 'started the strike with a big union and a small house, and ended it with a big house and a small union'. LINK Don't feel sorry for Scargill, he's ridden the gravy train for decades. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Plus- just as with a 'free lunch'- there's no such thing as a 'free house' [except in pub terminology!] Someone has to fund Mr Scargill's house. The Court held that it's he. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjodeano Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 But wasnt there an agreement/contract between Mr Scargil and the union that they should fund his expenses...rightly or wrongly....and now the judge has reserved this contract....as said in mt previous post, it was not going to be a fair trial, were not the establishment against him..? and him them.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.