The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34292 Message #463203
Posted By: Peter K (Fionn)
15-May-01 - 07:37 PM
Thread Name: Alex Glasgow-info & songs
Subject: RE: Alex Glasgow
Shit, that's a blow, Gervase, coming right when the old memories have just been stirred up.
I'd go along with Robens for the stage play, Ian - still puzzling about the telly and the book (a copy of which I have somewhere, but I can't find the damn thing.)
Steve, Robens took a hammering in the Aberfan report (the report that added "bungling ineptitude" to our national idiom) but the NUM, NACODS and BACM all joined a vociferous campaign that persuaded the government to reject his tendered resignation. He resigned at the end of his second five-year term, aged 60, in 1971, in protest at the Heath government's decision to privatise profitable elements of the industry. (The term in those days was "hiving off.")