Former Tower Colliery boss Tyrone O'Sullivan expressed his disgust over the findings, saying it was Lord Kinnock's reward for failing to support the miners during the 1984 strike. Former deputy Labour leader of Liverpool City Council Derek Hatton said,"nobody should be surprised by the findings, as Lord Kinnock had set the party on the road to embracing Thatcherism.
Mr Hatton went on the say,"He paved the way for Tony Blair, who simply carried on in the way that Thatcher had carried on. He created the launch pad for the greedy and selfish society and nobody should be surprised that he has done the same".
Labour MP for Anglesey Albert Owen said,"the political shift under Lord Kinnock from old to new Labour was necessary otherwise we would never have got back into office.
The real stitch up!
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Of course he ran away. You couldn't see him for dust. Disgustingly, Karl Francis made a documentary about the strike with film of Kinnock taken secretly in Bedwas Social.
If Kinnock had backed the miners, we'd have brought Thatcher down.
The NUM had the brass-necked cheek to give Kinnock their South Wales banner for keeps! You know, the Judas goats who scabbed on miners compensation. The workers were saved by NACODS led by Bleddyn Hancock.
At the time I was required to attend my expulsion hearing from Rhondda Constituency Labour Party. The expulsion proposal was supported by a personal letter from Neil Kinnock and I was unable to call on my supporters from Maerdy, Tower and Cwm Llantwit lodges because their affiliations to the Labour Party remained unpaid. The reason why they were unpaid was because the union funds had been sequestrated by the Thatcher government. My final speech to the Rhondda CLP included the immortal words "it is actions like this that will loose Labour the Rhondda constituency". Even, I at the time, thought that a bit dramatic, but then, how I laughed in 1999. Time now to do the same in Neil Kinnocks in his old stomping ground. Make him earn the lordship of his kingdom and finally rid Wales of this parasite.
The time is now to make Labour pay in valley such as Rhondda, Sirhowy, Rhymney, Cynon, Neath, Swansea, Ogmore and the other valleys which I failed to mention. Canvass deliver leaflets and join Plaid Cymru. Labour for years has negelected the valleys, thinking only of them as "donkey voters".
On a slightly different point - I wonder if you've read Hywel Francis MP's recent book about the miners' strike?
Father, Dai Francis, Communist NUM leader. Son, Hywel Francis, New Labour MP. Further proof of Marx's dictum that history's tragedies are repeated as farce.
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