What is the point of Trade Unions? | Arthur Scargill | Youth Television | White Light | 1980 

That's not Arthur Scargill, it's Farrah Fawcett Majors.

I couldn’t agree with you more... The way the entire youth filled audience & everyone conversed & discussed matters in this program are vastly superior to the standards portrayed today in the media. All we seem to get today are nerdy types living in there mums back bedroom playing video games all day or empty headed botoxed up tango tanned Katie price types with less intelligent than a jam sponge... With all there , yeah but, not but, like you know whatever phrases... At least in the 1980’s people could still properly interact & hold a cogent debate. Oh! how far we have fallen...

Lol so costing countless people to lose thier jobs not only in the mining industry but in countless thousands of other businesses is ok then Doogigiro ?The fact is scargill and all other radical unions were the enemy of the people as all the wild cat strikes caused more damage to our country and more still the general population than they did to the government time and time again...Obviously you are a radical leftie so really its pointless debating with you as you and your mates are living on another planet.

greatest leader of the western working class

​@billhaywood3503 you sure about that, he took the miners out on strike, without a national ballot, with coal stocks at record high, and in the summer, how is that great leadership.

The most honest and courageous human being who ever held public office. He has been proved correct unfortunately over and over again. Look at the world now, a few families own more wealth than half the world's population. British workers have had the longest standard of living squeeze since the Napoleon's wars. The result of years of Thatcherite style policies including attacking the unions etc. We should have followed King Arthur's lead.

It is sink or swim...sad to say...

Googled the show. Apparently he was one of the presenters.

Hecwas a positive black role model. 🇬🇧👍

Backwards since 1975 when the Beeb changed its standards

@@rat_king- You'd think calling this RU-vid Channel "ThamesTV" might have indicated this is nothing to do with the BBC.

@@skyscratch And i am lementing media with no bias and a spine. Post truth, post sanity

I think it simply because of the internet. I mean because of the speed on which it put whatever you searched for infront of you can cause you to be used to speed and as such this causation has the effect and turning everything into like bullets or bubbles where information is compressed into shorter and shorter terms. Ironically stalin warned about how capitalism would create a generation used to "shorter movies" with no substance because of the advancement of capitalism.

Why indeed ! The anti working class mindset of our ruling elite.

The funny thing is that this exactly what the tories and pro brexit people have created now with their short sighted jingoistic viewpoints. Actually, listening to mr Scargill talking about protecting British workers and business you would think your listening to a Brexit supporting tory now!

Yes. They're the generation that benefited from the post war boom and then voted in the Thatcherite consensus that the young generation of today tried (and failed) to end with Corbynism. The over 50s have shafted this country.

The youngsters left school with unemployment at a record high nearly the size of the population of New Zealand, both N.I and S.I, apprenteships scrapped. Then you became on migrant labour as you did not want to give your own youth the chance and today you need plasters, brickies, doctors, dentists, teachers and you fleece your own people. The only country which taxed the poor for the amount of light they recieved and hence the small windows in old homes. Overseas, can recalim the VAT, avoid income tax, use the NHS, whilst thoste who fought for this country sell the Big Issue! You fly a girl like Malala gve her an operation on the NHS, a place at Oxford, a Noble prize, then a Council House, give her the opportunitty to open the Common Wealth Games, whilst poor Albert, Doris, Ethel are denied any op even they fought and lost their men and women in the war!

You speak the damn truth!!... Very refreshing to hear it... 😃👍👍👍... We need more like this...

Not a nuts idea and one that's talked about more and more these days thanks to technology, as Scargill said. The man was a visionary.

Whereas mass unemployment and poverty pay is perfectly wonderful?

The miners strike was un-Christian?... You disapprove of Christianity?...Scargill was being paid by the Saudis? - Not sure what your getting at. How is Scargill to blame when the strike was defeated by a Tory government led by Margaret Thatcher.

@@hazelwray4184 Scargil is and was being paid for by the Iranians. I was there I saw what happened and the pit deputies were kept on to keep the pots viable if necessary. St. Tony sacked them. I'll answer any other questions you may have.

Keep taking ya medication 💊 fella

Way to go with the Islamaphobia Nicholas Parish

@@grahamjohn678 1999 homophobia 2010 islamophobia 2019 transphobia 2022 vaxphobia 2025 peodophobia?? Get over yourself matey, you're over egging the narrative...