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Musket BS: no reason for being spooked (28) RE: BS: no reason for being spooked 05 Aug 14


Any chance of using the word "alleged"?

After all, I have first hand knowledge of some of this and a hell of a lot of it is bollocks. Joe Gormley blew this old story out years ago. Claims of him being in London when The BBC were busy interviewing him over something else in Sheffield being the one that sticks in my memory. Union leaders are there to negotiate, not to have a no surrender attitude in line with trots. They work in the interest of their members. Very few SWP trots worked down the pit.

I personally gave evidence that put a SWP thug in prison for three months in 1986 after the police found it was him who pushed a note through my door stating what time each day my wife took our baby to the nursery in 1984. This because whilst on strike, I carried on my day release college. SWP spearheaded a campaign against teenagers. Apprentices were locked out and not allowed to strike so when they were called back in, savage thugs called them scabs. The union, who happily took their subs, refused to fight the case of those too scared to go back and had their indenture removed.

The contribution of SWP in the miners' strike was to turn decent people against ideology and once The NCB allowed men back, 90% of Yorkshire miners were back within a month. Two wrongs never made a right.

Whatever the answers are to corruption in both government and trade unions, people in general are too educated and too sophisticated to fall for such crap as this.


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