Aurthur Scargill

a full-blown fight to the death?

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He went to school with my dad, 71 years of age. nt

 

That house is just down the road from ours

But I'm pretty sure he doesn't live there any more. I think he split up from his wife and she lives there now. He's still there cutting the grass every now and then though.

Yours, Scargill Watch

 

Was he right then all the time

When he called a strike. had the miners have won would the pits still be open.???
My opinion is he would have won if he had the support of all the miners and not just some of the areas.

I am still of the opinion the mines will reopen in the not too distant future when the oil is running out or a synthetic fuel (from Coal) is invented.

 

Strange how

A union man could live in a house like that. I mean solidarity, grass roots and all that! Looking after the common man.
ELKSHIT!

 

RE: That house is just down the road from ours

I think his daughter has the house on Houndhill. His wife the house at the top of Mount Vernon hill (near the Hospital) and Arthur lives in Birdwell on the Vivo estate.

 

Had NACODS come out

The miners would have won.</p>

Peter Walker **** himself when it looked at one point like they would and so all the scab miners couldn't produce.</p>

 

Don't like the bloke personally

He wasn't living on food parcels through the strike in his plush residence guarded by striking miners.</p>

I'm not convinced his balls have dropped.</p>

On the plus side, he did stand up to Maggie annd her ****** glove puppet Ian McGregor, but on the downside played right into their hands as far as pit closures went (Barrow and Acton Hall being two examples of pits closed becausethey were unsafe to return to work).</p>

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Very true

From wikipedia:</p>

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) did not support the NUM, seeming to support Thatcher's call for a secret ballot. Solidarity action was taken, however, by railworkers and by dockers, who were both threatened with dismissal if they refused to handle coal. The Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU), an electricians' union, actively opposed the strike; Ian MacGregor's autobiography detailed how its leaders supplied the government with valuable information that allowed the strike to be defeated. Steelworkers' unions did not support the strike, which was widely resented by the miners, after the support that they had given the steel strike in 1980 and after concessions were made by the NUM on deliveries of coke to steel works during the strike. The National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS) nearly went on strike in September; this was one point where the balance seemed to be tipping in favour of the miners, but Scargill's subsequent contempt of court orders caused the union to be fined and lost wider support. MacGregor later admitted that, had NACODS gone ahead with their strike, a compromise would probably have been forced on the Coal Board. Files later made public showed that the Government had an informant inside NACODS, passing them information about the negotiations</p>

Full article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_%281984-1985%29#MI5_.22counter-subversion.22</p>

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His daughter's a GP

and Arthur is a white sh*te supporter