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Osem	02-10-2012 18:49

Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat

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Former miners' leader Arthur Scargill has gone to the High Court to fight an attempt by his union to stop paying the cost of his London flat.

Mr Scargill, 74, says he was given use of the rented three-bed Barbican flat for life when he became president of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1982, a tenure that lasted 20 years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19806014

Free flat for life? Nice 'work' if you can get it eh? Still what can you expect...

Sirius

02-10-2012 18:54

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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35480401)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19806014

Free flat for life? Nice 'work' if you can get it eh? Still what can you expect...

OMG another nose in the trough.

That man should be paying back all the money he lost the miners during the strike instead of leaching even more off them. :mad:

denphone

02-10-2012 18:56

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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35480402)

OMG another nose in the trough

And there are plenty in there.

devilincarnate

02-10-2012 19:03

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Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35480402)

OMG another nose in the trough.

That man should be paying back all the money he lost the miners during the strike instead of leaching even more off them. :mad:

He should ask for half from that evil witch that he got in to bed with

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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35480401)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19806014

Free flat for life? Nice 'work' if you can get it eh? Still what can you expect...

Known about this for ages as where I live is the headquaters for the NUM

martyh

02-10-2012 19:23

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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35480401)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19806014

Free flat for life? Nice 'work' if you can get it eh? Still what can you expect...

It's only what i expect from union leaders ,they take members money feather their own nest and use the members to further their own ambitions .In principle a union is a good thing but as this proves modern union leaders are only out for themselves ,

bunch of hypocrites :mad:

Osem	21-12-2012 11:24

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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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20303797

Looks like old Arthur will have to pay up to maintain the standards to which he's become accustomed.

Oh dear, my heart bleeds... :D

Sirius

21-12-2012 11:28

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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35514980)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20303797

Oh dear, my heart bleeds... :D

Tell him to go forth in short jerky movements, The only thing he should get free is a one way ticket to a uninhabited island that is in the middle of nowhere

Will21st

21-12-2012 12:19

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Another Champagne Socialist?? No Way Jose! ;)

martyh

21-12-2012 15:14

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The most amazing thing about this is that he thought the rent for life deal he was on was an alternative to the free house that was purchased by the NUM for his predecessors ,and rented or purchased at a nominal fee on retirement .So basically all the leaders of the NUM (and probably a few other unions) have been royally screwing the workers they are supposed to represent for decades

Paul	21-12-2012 15:16

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Is he still alive, I didnt know that ....

martyh

21-12-2012 15:19

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35514997)

So no free coal then? :D

don't forget that the union was subsidising the mortgage on his Barnsley house as well

martyh

21-12-2012 17:35

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35515114)

Champagne socialists, don't you just love them. :rolleyes: They're just as bad as MP's with their snouts in the trough.

Even worse imo ,two faced and hypocritical .They are supposed to represent the members but divert funds raised by the members to feather their own nests ,isn't the CWU under investigation for using funds inappropriately?.

Osem	21-12-2012 20:37

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So it's not only Tory Toffs we have to worry about then? :D

martyh

21-12-2012 20:50

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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35515212)

So it's not only Tory Toffs we have to worry about then? :D

Strikes me it's anyone with any power these days .Seems to me that in some respects we are going backwards in the race to class equality

slowcoach

22-12-2012 12:49

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Unions are like democracy, a ploy to make the peasants think that change is possible. :dunce:

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