Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
02-10-2012, 18:49
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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.
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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...
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02-10-2012, 18:54
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
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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. 
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02-10-2012, 18:56
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
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OMG another nose in the trough
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And there are plenty in there.
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02-10-2012, 19:03
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
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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. |
He should ask for half from that evil witch that he got in to bed with
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Known about this for ages as where I live is the headquaters for the NUM
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02-10-2012, 19:23
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
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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
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21-12-2012, 11:24
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
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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.
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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... 
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21-12-2012, 11:28
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
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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
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21-12-2012, 12:19
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
Another Champagne Socialist?? No Way Jose! 
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21-12-2012, 15:14
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
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
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21-12-2012, 15:16
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
Is he still alive, I didnt know that ....
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21-12-2012, 15:19
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
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So no free coal then? |
don't forget that the union was subsidising the mortgage on his Barnsley house as well
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21-12-2012, 17:35
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Champagne socialists, don't you just love them.  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?.
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21-12-2012, 20:37
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
So it's not only Tory Toffs we have to worry about then?
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21-12-2012, 20:50
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
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So it's not only Tory Toffs we have to worry about then? |
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
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22-12-2012, 12:49
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Re: Scargill in legal battle to keep free London flat
Unions are like democracy, a ploy to make the peasants think that change is possible. 
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