Social justice or selfish hypocrisy? (From York Press)

Would we?

Wasn't this a technical legal dispute about contract?

Isn't it up to the NUM to decide the contract terms of it's leader (and then up to lawyers to thrash it out if these are disputed) ?

A rather weak attempt to link this rather techie story to local party politics.

I would say it is a display of selfish hypocrisy. It everywhere these days, like when multi millionaire
Government ministers tell us "we are all in it together". Selfish hypocrisy
has no political boundaries

I would say it is a display of selfish hypocrisy. It everywhere these days, like when multi millionaire
Government ministers tell us "we are all in it together". Selfish hypocrisy
has no political boundaries

I WOULD like to hear the views of all York Labour councillors and others ... We would all like to know.

Answers on a postcard please.
Nine bottles of champagne for the best offering.

Buzz Light-year wrote:

I WOULD like to hear the views of all York Labour councillors and others ... We would all like to know.

Answers on a postcard please.
Nine bottles of champagne for the best offering.

Buzz theres only 8 cos I nicked one at a landlord bash. Sorry mate

After the Miners strike had ended, I spotted some graffiti on a wall in the by then former pit village of South Kirby. It read "With friends like Scargill, who needs enemies"

capt spaulding wrote:

Buzz Light-year wrote:

I WOULD like to hear the views of all York Labour councillors and others ... We would all like to know.

Answers on a postcard please.
Nine bottles of champagne for the best offering.

Buzz theres only 8 cos I nicked one at a landlord bash. Sorry mate

Also you won't be able to put your opinion on anything involving the labour councillors on this site. Really wish we could have commented on the whole private decisions
http://www.yorkpress
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As it does seem the opposite of a democracy

But what has it got to do with the Labour Party?

Scargill wasn't even a member and even stood against Labour with his democratic labour party.

He was as much against Nu Labour as our resident right winghers on here.

There hasn't been a real Labour party since the death of John Smith. so why does the letter writer try to make political mischief from a dispute between the NUM and yon Scargill.

Now, if the letter writer wanted to ask how all the party councillors felt about the ongoing expenses issue in Westminster, then I suspect we'd get some very interesting comments on here

Matthew Laverack's letter is unintelligible and truly worthy of the drivel we have come to expect from Conservative Central Office! If this is the level of political debate we have to look forward to in 2013, we really are deeper in the mire than I thought.

I have little or no time for our present Council but if this contrived nonsense is the best Matthew Laverack can come up with, ironically he may well end up being their best secret weapon!

Silver wrote:

capt spaulding wrote:

Buzz Light-year wrote:

I WOULD like to hear the views of all York Labour councillors and others ... We would all like to know.

Answers on a postcard please.
Nine bottles of champagne for the best offering.

Buzz theres only 8 cos I nicked one at a landlord bash. Sorry mate

Also you won't be able to put your opinion on anything involving the labour councillors on this site. Really wish we could have commented on the whole private decisions
http://www.yorkpress

.co.uk/news/10128892

.Council_chiefs_defe

nd_private_decisions

/
As it does seem the opposite of a democracy

Democracy ? York City Council ?
Its an alien concept.
But come the day of the ballot box !

Come the day of the ballot box? HO HO HO.

We will get the same old same old we always get with very few exceptions that marginally alter the demographics.

People vote as they always have, because they are either fiercely loyal to a party or because they are too apathetic about the political process.

capt spaulding wrote:

Buzz Light-year wrote:

I WOULD like to hear the views of all York Labour councillors and others ... We would all like to know.

Answers on a postcard please. Nine bottles of champagne for the best offering.

Buzz theres only 8 cos I nicked one at a landlord bash. Sorry mate

As if the pub industry doesn't have enough to cope with already without having to suffer the irony of building lobbyists going round beating up publicans with expensive booze bottles.

Should you really be owning up to that in public captain?

Was that you Buzz beating up the publican ? I remember that. I think they had Double diamond on draught ?
Ah well happy days.

Hmm Landlord bash ? I had a gathering of housing landlords more to mind, but hey you have stirred a memory or two, I think we alternated from the Cow to the cats whiskers. But that was probably monday night. Rialto now , how sad.

ak7274 wrote:
Come the day of the ballot box? HO HO HO.

We will get the same old same old we always get with very few exceptions that marginally alter the demographics.

People vote as they always have, because they are either fiercely loyal to a party or because they are too apathetic about the political process.

Sadly I think your right.

CynicaloldGit wrote:
But what has it got to do with the Labour Party? Scargill wasn't even a member and even stood against Labour with his democratic labour party. He was as much against Nu Labour as our resident right winghers on here. There hasn't been a real Labour party since the death of John Smith. so why does the letter writer try to make political mischief from a dispute between the NUM and yon Scargill. Now, if the letter writer wanted to ask how all the party councillors felt about the ongoing expenses issue in Westminster, then I suspect we'd get some very interesting comments on here

All peas in a pod, despite you pleading otherwise.

capt spaulding wrote:

ak7274 wrote:
Come the day of the ballot box? HO HO HO.

We will get the same old same old we always get with very few exceptions that marginally alter the demographics.

People vote as they always have, because they are either fiercely loyal to a party or because they are too apathetic about the political process.

Sadly I think your right.

duci novo, similis duci seneci

Scarlet Pimpernel wrote:

CynicaloldGit wrote:
But what has it got to do with the Labour Party? Scargill wasn't even a member and even stood against Labour with his democratic labour party. He was as much against Nu Labour as our resident right winghers on here. There hasn't been a real Labour party since the death of John Smith. so why does the letter writer try to make political mischief from a dispute between the NUM and yon Scargill. Now, if the letter writer wanted to ask how all the party councillors felt about the ongoing expenses issue in Westminster, then I suspect we'd get some very interesting comments on here

All peas in a pod, despite you pleading otherwise.

I'm not pleading anything, I detest ALL politicians, I've yet to find one who can even lie straight in be.
However, I also hate people who seek to use any and every oppotuninty to divide and conquer.
As I've stated on many occasions here and elsewhere, why do people think Labout was socialist.
The reason therewas a hung parliament was because no one could tell the difference.
Scargill was thrown out of the Labour party, as was another man I despise, G Galloway..........bu
t they were thrown out because they had the temerity to say what I have just said...Labout was not socialist, had nothing to do with Scargill, so why try to imply that they did. Scargill deserved to loose his fight with his Union, but that had nothing to do with Labour or the supreme soviet or the Chinese communist party, it was a union matter and that is fact.