Scargill used 'right to buy' in bid to buy London flat

[flatpackhamster]

I'm surprised this story hasn't been mentioned here. Actually, I'm not since it's been reported in every paper except the Guardian.

Unbelievable.

Not only did he live rent free for 30 years and the union had no idea, he tried to use Thatcher's flagship council house sale policy to buy the flat he was living in.

I bet all the class warriors must be proud of their hero.

So what. It is not about individual sacrifice.

That's hilarious. What an awful man.

Classic left wing hypocrisy.

Isn't this the same flat that he sued the NUM about, because years after his retirement they said they would not pay the rent any longer.

In the Barbican?

Nasty vile worm like scum of a man, just make me shudder, loathsome. < not a fan>

Yes, it's the same flat there was a court action over. Horrible, greedy man

telsa

So what. It is not about individual sacrifice.

Is there no hypocrisy so big it can't be ignored?

There wasn't any individual sacrifice here. Scargill helped himself to union members money not only to give himself a free house, but also to try and buy the house through a scheme produced by a woman who was his political antithesis.

I wish my Dad was alive to see Scargill being exposed for what he is - and what my Dad always said he was.

He was a disgrace anyway (and I am a staunch Labour supporter)

This is old news. Why's it being brought up again?

Thatcher once said that "Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money"

I guess it's glaringly clear in this case that she was right. Scargill was very happy with the status quo until the NUM realised he was bleeding them dry.

Horrid, horrid man. Scum of the earth.

telsa are you serious?

it's in the news as there has been a BBC investigation into the affair

I'll dance a jig when that git dies.

Horrible man.
Like Bob Crowe, a man who has one stock phrase "sold down the river ".