"Scargill's crass folly in agitating the NUM into a strike exactly when Thatcher wanted it - spring on the way; coal stocks at an all-time high - visited huge deprivation on thousands of his members, to the extent that 30 years later many are still feeling the effects. Yet Scargill thinks that even ten years after he retired, the union's remnants should be funding his City of London apartment; all the fuel he can burn at his other home in Barnsley; a £12,000 car allowance, and even - for Christ's sake - his phone bills. And he's been in the courts most of this year making sure he gets his just deserts.

Oh, you've picked a wonderful hero, GSS." quote peter k.
you also said,"It's just ludicrous to blame the UDM for her excesses."
    yet, you seem quite happy to blame Scargill for everything.