Arthur Scargill To Be Investigated

[naomi24]

All for one …. and one for ….himself.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3806872/Former-NUM-leader-Arthur-Scargill-investigated-purchasing-2million-property-half-value.html

[Old_Geezer]

Investigated ? I thought that was what the Tory party actually wanted, the raison d'etre, to claim there was a right rather than an undeserved privilege, to buy; by giving cut price offers at thee ratepayers expense to those who have a council property. Presumably in the hope it bought them votes.

[Old_Geezer]

...at the ratepayers'...

Like I typed >:-(

[naomi24]

You don't think he's been just a little sneaky in his dealings here, OG - not to mention two-faced?

[Old_Geezer]

It doesn't fit with his professed general philosophy, but we all have a priority to look after ourselves and our own first. Most folk who reach high office (regardless of political or moral leanings) tend to be the ones capable of manipulating situations and people to do ok for themselves first. Let they who are without such intend cast the first stone.

[Gromit]

Scargill has used 'Right to Buy'. The clue is in the name, he is perfectly entitled to purchase this property. The legislation introduced by Mrs Thatcher entitles him to a huge discount. Hurrah!

Not sure what the Union are complaining about, they paid the rent on his London home, but now he owns it, so there is no rent to pay. Hurrah!

So Scargill is a hypocrite, is that supposed to be news to anyone?

[Baldric]

///Right-to-buy only applies to 'main homes' and he is rarely seen there
The union still pays £3,500 a yea towards his £600,000 Yorkshire home///

[jno]

how often do you need to be seen there? The Barbican is a gated community and only other residents can get in, so I don't know who's been saying "I rarely see him".

[Khandro]

Up the workers!

[Togo]

He sold that "home" to his daughter last year Baldric, she's a lawyer don't you know. She then "loaned" him the money to afford him the cash to pay up front £1million+ for a property valued at £2million+ on the open market. I am sure I can recall Scargill calling the right to buy option wicked and immoral.

[Togo]

Scargill...... when he set out he had a big union and a small house, now of course.............

[DTCwordfan]

"All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have." Who said that? Yep, one Arthur Scargill.... underestimate the economic strength they have - telling me and he applied it personally. I wonder what dodgy bank he uses?

[Gromit]

Curious that the knee-jerk default position of many (and the newspaper), is that Scargill is the villain of the piece.

Yet nothing is said about the policy that gives £1million discounts to wealthy people. Surely the whole system of giving away valuable housing stock for peanuts, is the real scandal?

[youngmafbog]

Yes Gromit, but what makes this story is the tack Scargill took when it was workers buying their homes.

You must know this as you have pointed it out above - he is a hypocrite, nothing new but it raises the bar even further for him

[Gromit]

Ymb,
Scargill seems to have flipped his home to qualify for his £1million pound saving. Just like our fine upstanding MPs, he has done nothing wrong.

As Scargill apparently rarely uses the London property, I expect he will sell it (I think there is a time stipulation after right to buy). That will be the coup de gra to his hypocrisy.

[ToraToraTora]

standard Socialist, do as i say not as I do. He was still drawing his salary whilst the miners were suffering under his disastrous "leadership". Let's hope they bang him up.

[DTCwordfan]

3000 feet down?