Arthur Scargill speaks his "mind"

The BBC are delighted to report that one of their heroes Arthur Scargill has attacked one of their villains Margaret Thatcher. Oh how the BBC are delighting in reporting that:

"Former union leader Arthur Scargill has claimed Margaret Thatcher blocked five separate deals during 1984 which would have ended the miners' strike.

Writing in the Guardian 25 years after the start of the dispute, he claims the agreements were "rejected or withdrawn" at the then-prime minister's request.

He also denies that he prevented a national ballot of NUM members. "

Of course the BBC do grudgingly have to also report the denial:

"But Lord Walker said there never had been a deal, and insisted that the NUM leader had never deviated from his position that no pit should close.

He also asked why, if deals had been on the table, no mention had been made of them at the time. "

So who do you choose to believe, Arthur Scargill or Peter Walker? I know who I trust more and it isn't the balding former member of the Young Communist League. Any man who has defended Stalin and criticized Poland's Solidarity trade union movement for its destabilisation of socialism gets zero respect from me.