Scargill

Well now that we know it can be 'clean coal' perhaps we could always recall Scargill from Care in the Community and make him Prime Minister, I suppose.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

The trade union movement in face of a resolute and determined legislature and government was tamed (not destroyed, but placed within clear limits), a process assisted as Glyn notes by the assine arrogance and stupidity of leaders such as Scargill and his allies in militant who were bent on undermining the main opposition party in furtherance of their leninist agenda(s).

Margaret Thatcher recalled Glyn Davies 2007

They lost the general Election, so think that they can do a 'Scargill' and take over our Country by force.

Dickiebo dickiebo 2010

• Meanwhile, a reception to honour Tony Benn is enlivened by the always illuminating Arthur Scargill.

Hugh Muir's diary 2012

Scargill respected his fellow socialist's principles, especially his loyalty.

Hugh Muir's diary 2012

I cannot deny that Thatcher was playing politics too and it is well know that the government had prepared for the strike for 18 months in advance, but if Arthur Scargill had had any sense at all he could have called for a ballot, which at the start of the strike I am sure they would have won, and could have removed one of the government's key arguments from the debate.

Archive 2009-03-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

Most abiding memory was that the NUM and Arthur Scargill refused to allow a vote by members of the union on whether they should strike which for me was the key reason why I could not, back then, support the actions of miners.

Archive 2009-03-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

Prince William would be born in June 198223 Britain hit by 105 tornadoes in a single night8 Arthur Scargill elected leader of National Union of Mineworkers13 Helmut Schmidt, the West German chancellor, visits East Germany, the first official summit in 11 years.

Timeline: 1981 key events 2011

The miners' strikes had been destructive and Arthur Scargill foolish, but mounted police clubbing strikers expressed a class hatred which every previous Tory leader since Churchill had rejected.

Letters: Bringer of division and bitterness 2011

It is wildly overblown to compare a one-day strike over pension rights with the epic struggle between the Tory government of the 1980s and Arthur Scargill.

No one should want to go back to the 80s – not even the Tories | Andrew Rawnsley 2011