True colours?

[Thatcherite]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19806014
Good old socialist principles eh! A perfect example by a career "socialist" of why socialism cannot work!

[baza]

says it all really and what a name for his lawyer pitt-

[Answerprancer]

Give it up R1 - there are better things to worry about.

[Gromit]

A contract is a contract.

The Law applies to everyone including Socialists.

Either Scargill is right or his ex-employer are right. The Lawyers will decide.

The notion that Scargill is a socialist so he will give up anything he thinks he has earned just to be right on is misguided.

I have no idea who is in the right here, but you are attempting to portray Scargill as an hypocrit when he is just trying to cash in on what he thinks he is entirled to.

Why didn't you just post that Arthur Scargill was the worst NUM leader ever, then we could have all agreed with yoy.

[baza]

during the miners strike scargill was told to wear a baseball cap as his hair cut caused a slump in the sale of shredded wheat

[Gromit]

Don't give up the day job baza.

[FredPuli43]

More intriguing is why the cash-strapped union briefs a QC, no doubt with second counsel as his junior on perhaps two thirds the QC's fee,to fight a straightforward case like this, and , of course, how Mr Scargill has the funds to do the same. We can't know the fee in this case of course, but a clue lies in a newly appointed QC typically charging £5,000 for an hour's conference with the lay client. You can imagine what these two will charge for appearing in court.

As to the case itself, it has nothing to do with socialism; it's about rights under, and the interpretation of, an agreement, which anyone would and should claim, whether they are communists, socialists, speculators, entrepreneurs or none of those.

[modeller]

What happened to the house that Scargill bought with the miners pension fund ? He and his deputy both used the pension fund to buy themselves houses.. When he was exposed by a newspaper he claimed he had borrowed the money. The union of which he was the president then agreed it could be treated as a morgage .
This flat contract , if that is what it is , was arrainged by him at the time of his retirement . Did he write it ? I should imagine he did what most Union bosses and directors of private companies do when they retire. He feathered his nest.

[bazwillrun]

Should have feathered his head, would be better than that ridiculous comb over !

He's just another of the champagne socialists, we're all equal comrades , but some are more equal than others.

[Brenden]

He was baz, the only one of the few after the miners strike to retain his job

[youngmafbog]

Hes says he should have use of it until he dies. Perhaps it would be cheaper for the union to oblige him?

AP, how do you get R1 from this post? Or is it simply you have no answer to Thatcherite so decide to try and divert it rather than provide an argument or reply?

[Answerprancer]

Bog - I could have answered it at length but saw no point.
My aim wasn't to "divert" either, now you've drawn more attention to it.