Brought Thatcher to her knees? Yeah, cos she really did back down didn't she when faced with illegal strikes? Ask Arthur how that went. .
He's not done too bad out becoming an establishment man. Knighthood, Lord and European Ambassador role. Earning 10 million a year in his European work alone.Labour wee asked to back a genreal strike, if that had happened the governmemt would have crumbled, the country was at war, kinnock refused, man was a shithouse, protecting hia position ovwr the working people.
A **** of a man at times
He's not done too bad out becoming an establishment man. Knighthood, Lord and European Ambassador role. Earning 10 million a year in his European work alone.
He's not done too bad out becoming an establishment man. Knighthood, Lord and European Ambassador role. Earning 10 million a year in his European work alone.
It was very powerful. Shame about Sheffield, as it slightly tarnished his legacy. I quite liked Kinnock.Best conference speech by any leader, of any party, I've ever seen. Still fantastic all these years later.
Great speech that tbf.
Do you consider a strike bringing down a democratically elected government a desirable thing?Labour were asked to back a genreal strike, if that had happened the governmemt would have crumbled, the country was at war, kinnock refused, man was a shithouse, protecting his position over the working people.
A **** of a man at times
Shame May can’t do the same to the right-wing zealots in her party, rather than going out of her way to appease them.Stood up to the bullies in Militant. They had nothing left after this, cue them walking out of the conference utterly destroyed by Kinnock's brilliant rhetoric. His timing in this speech was perfection, his tone just the right side of indignant anger. All Hatton could do was shout lamely from the back pointing and jabbing like the fucking Noddy man he is, was and always will be.
I was working in Sheffield at the time, just a few hundred yards from that huge waste of the miners subs, "Camelot". I had no sense of a country at war, just two bullying ****s with massive egos dragging the country into the gutter. (that's Thatcher and Scargill if you haven't worked it out.)Labour were asked to back a genreal strike, if that had happened the governmemt would have crumbled, the country was at war, kinnock refused, man was a shithouse, protecting his position over the working people.
A **** of a man at times