IT HAS been a long while coming, but former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has finally unleashed his revenge in public at striking miners’ leader Arthur Scargill. At a meeting last week to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1984 dispute, Lord Kinnock laid into Arthur with excoriating abandon. Yes, he said, Margaret Thatcher and her [...]

by Tribune Web Editor
Saturday, March 21st, 2009

IT HAS been a long while coming, but former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has finally unleashed his revenge in public at striking miners’ leader Arthur Scargill. At a meeting last week to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1984 dispute, Lord Kinnock laid into Arthur with excoriating abandon. Yes, he said, Margaret Thatcher and her cronies may have planned long and hard for the trap they set for the NUM, but the deciding factor in their defeat was the “suicidal vanity of Arthur Scargill”. It was his fault, claimed his Lordship, that the miners walked into the trap in the first place: “He walked in to an extent, at a speed, and with a lack of restraint that she could not, in her wildest dreams, have hoped for.”
His coup de grace was cruel: “Arthur Scargill and Margaret Thatcher deserved each other. But nobody else did.” Always best when served cold.

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  • Robert

    Who would you believe a highly educated bloke who has not done a days work worth calling work, or a bloke who worked down the mines. Take Kinnock Blair and Brown the three of then have had nice well paid jobs, most have sold out the working class and taken Labour on a dangerous journey, which could see them out of power for a long time to come, now the miners have gone the mines closed back stabbing seems to be a way of getting your self back in the media. Kinnock was yesterdays man, and he failed at that.

  • Robert

    Who would you believe a highly educated bloke who has not done a days work worth calling work, or a bloke who worked down the mines. Take Kinnock Blair and Brown the three of then have had nice well paid jobs, most have sold out the working class and taken Labour on a dangerous journey, which could see them out of power for a long time to come, now the miners have gone the mines closed back stabbing seems to be a way of getting your self back in the media. Kinnock was yesterdays man, and he failed at that.

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