[Gorbash]

JohnP, on 12 November 2009 - 07:36 PM, said:

Scargill has many faults, many, many faults.Standing up to Thatcher and trying to protect Miner's jobs and communities was not, however, one of them.This is so evident now when you look at the communities that lost out.

To what extent was Scargill trying to protect miner's jobs and ocmmunities and to what extent was he playing his own political game though????

I refer to my earlier post when I mentioned his comment just after the 1983 general eleciton when he stated quite clearly that he did not accept the result and would bring down Thatcher's government...

[Dafydd Humphreys]

Gorbash, on 13 November 2009 - 09:59 AM, said:

JohnP, on 12 November 2009 - 07:36 PM, said:

Scargill has many faults, many, many faults.Standing up to Thatcher and trying to protect Miner's jobs and communities was not, however, one of them.This is so evident now when you look at the communities that lost out.

To what extent was Scargill trying to protect miner's jobs and ocmmunities and to what extent was he playing his own political game though????

I refer to my earlier post when I mentioned his comment just after the 1983 general eleciton when he stated quite clearly that he did not accept the result and would bring down Thatcher's government...

Thatcher declared that she was going to decimate the industrial strength of Britain and start relying on imported energy.

Scargill, as elected leader of the union representing the majority of coal miners in Britain, said he would not allow her to emasculate Britain in this way.

Either you support the transformation of mining areas into jobless wastelands blighted by crime and drugs, or you support the defence of these industries and communities and the energy supply of the country.

There is no liberal middle ground on this.