Quote Originally Posted by pomeroy View Post
The Miners Strike was doomed to failure because it was called by an egotistical maniac leader of a Union without a balloted mandate to bring down a democratically elected government on the pretence of preserving jobs and communities. On a grander scale the Spanish Civil War echoed this and ended up with 40 years of Franco’s dictatorship. I rest my case.
Thank god that particular union leader was deafted he did them no favours and it shows his own personal greed , in a time when the NUM had very little funds and had plenty to say about rich Tories ,dreadful little man :


"""Former miners' leader Arthur Scargill has lost his High Court fight to have the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) continue to pay for his London flat.

Mr Scargill was president of the NUM until July 2002 and led it during the miners' strike from 1984 to 1985.

He stepped down as president of the union but claimed his contract entitled him to a London home for life, or the life of his widow.

Chris Kitchen, NUM general secretary, said Mr Scargill had been "found out".

Mr Scargill said that the judgment was "perverse".

He added: "There can be no doubt that 30 years ago I was given an entitlement to a property by the union and that entitlement continued during my retirement, as it had done for all my predecessors including Lord Gormley and, after he died, his widow Lady Gormley." """