Scargill Is Right - for 25 Years Labour has Failed to Appreciate King Coal [Edition 2]
Evening Standard - London › March 13, 2009
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IT WAS always going to be Arthur Scargill who would reopen the deep wounds that have scarred the Labour movement in this the week of the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the miners' strike.
Scargill's claim is that it was not Margaret Thatcher who killed the coal industry but Neil Kinnock; that Thatcher's administration had been close to an agreed settlement with Scargill's National Union of Mineworkers, and it was Kinnock's failure to back the miners that fired up the Tory leader toward her collision course with, and ultimate destruction of, the British coal-mining communities.See the full content of this document
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Scargill Is Right - for 25 Years Labour has Failed to Appreciate King Coal [Edition 2]
Whatever the historical revisionism, the evidence is that it is Kinnock's heirs in New Labour who are hammering nails in the coffin of coal, the Dark Lord of the energy sector.
The UK coal industry may be a shadow of its former self but the...See the full content of this document
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