“I will never stop fighting … You must be joking?” said Arthur Scargill as he joined striking railway workers on the picket line in Sheffield.The former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers is 84 and maybe not as nimble on his feet as he once was, but the fire in his belly would seem not to have died down.
Nor have his opinions mellowed.“I’ve nothing but utter contempt for the leadership of the Labour party, particularly [Keir] Starmer,” Scargill said in response to a question on Labour’s attitude towards this week’s strikes. “Quite frankly, the Labour party has blown it completely.
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