I saw you on Facebook and I just thought OMG

[DBA_bloke]

You mean the only politician. Her son must have given her a fair few sleepless nights, what, with getting lost in the desert, etc.

Yes. What a filthy squirt of diarrhoea Mark is.

[snaw]

Arthur Scargill: a genuine star. Hated by every bedwetter in the UK, but he nearly, oh so nearly, got his way. I'm bloomin' glad he didn't win the Strike, but what a politician he was. The ONLY person to give Maggie sleepless nights.

Have to disagree - he played right into her hands and if we're measuring his political skills I'd rate him way way down the pile. I say that as someone with first hand experience of the miners strike, I reckon he made an unwinnable strike a hell of a lot worse and where I come from he's not remembered very fondly.

[DBA_bloke]

Looks a bit sleazy tho... I think it's the hair do!

Yes. As vain as as peacock was old Arthur. He looks a lot better these days.

[DBA_bloke]

Have to disagree - he played right into her hands and if we're measuring his political skills I'd rate him way way down the pile. I say that as someone with first hand experience of the miners strike, I reckon he made an unwinnable strike a hell of a lot worse and where I come from he's not remembered very fondly.

Notts, is it? The verminous slime.

[EDIT] Unwinnable? Nope. But I don't think anyone expected the State to be quite so violent. e.g. Orgreave.

The Government was pretty heavy-handed over the Poll Tax demo., too. Knew a few people who got caught up in it, and were either battered by the police, or saw something similar. Bet it'd be no different today.

[DBA_bloke]

And the business about the mortgage before the strike started, allegedly...

All tabloid poo - of course. Like the Libyan cash thing: all crud.

[ChimpMaster]

Why are we talking about AS? Is he on Facebook? Is he one of your "friends"?!

[DBA_bloke]

A man with a slight grasp of tactics and no grasp at all of strategy... the miners would have been much better off with Mick McGahey(sp?) as leader.

Agreed. But I think he was just too tired of leading.

[cailin maith]

No friend of mine....

Do you think "you know who" is on there? The most heinous war criminal of them all???

[Jog On]

he has a following:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2401388951

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2383742995

and some enemies as well!:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4634648122

[DBA_bloke]

Why are we talking about AS? Is he on Facebook? Is he one of your "friends"?!

Tee hee. Next time anyone old whinges about sky-high fuel bills I hope someone reminds them that we've got feckin' LOADS of lovely, super-high quality coal no longer being mined, that could be keeping them warm cheaply, and keeping British folk in work. It'll warm them up a treat to recall how bleedin' mindless they were when they were led by their now frost-bitten noses by the Daily Express, The Mail, and even (bleuurrgghh!!) The Mirror. And the Labour party, under the crap, spineless leadership of Tory-wannabe twonk Kinnock. Feck 'em.