Arthur Scargill

There we've come down to it now.

The left wing, JP, Arthur Scargill has come out.

Apart from our union members, everyone else can get permed.

I'm sorry.

an education system full of generals, lieutenants, commanders, and they're all like bloody black at it, all finding ways not to go over the top, while us...

But again,

that's a very Arthur Scargill way of looking at things, which I...

Listen, some people will agree with, and I agree with...

So when I did the video for that one, I literally did three games of Tulio's list where he's giving...

He used Smite and Scargill and Neptalon to give Neptalon charge, and I ran through three games of that real quick.

And then I did one game of Zack's Velen Hunter, where Velen eats himself and makes a copy and triggers his death rattles, and eventually the opponent dies after 15 minutes of animations.

And literally...

I've been completely gaslit by 25 years working in this industry.

The memories of British Rail Sandwiches and Arthur Scargill.

Public ownership, yes, it's all a bit utopian.

It's all a bit idealistic.

Very relevant.

So I think that is something that goes back to the 1980s.

Funny enough, over the weekend, I was talking to somebody who worked in a mining village in Kent, not as a miner, but remembered what Margaret Thatcher did to the mines when she took on Arthur Scargill, for one thing.

She flooded a mine that had had new machinery just put in for the purpose of extracting a very, very rich vein of coal.

So there are a few places to hide within it.

What was the one where Alexei Sayle plays Arthur Scargill?

Oh, Strike.

Incredible.

Among people I grew up in the mining community I come from, coal, cotton town, Leigh, Wig- Wigan, was a form of moral philosophy.

And I look back to it now and think of, of at times like the miners strike or the famous Saltley Gate where Arthur Scargill nearly brought down the Tory government, and that would've been impossible without a kind of inner moral philosophy that rises out of your community experience.

And Marx was dead against that.

Mm.

at the National Theatre.

I went to see Pride, the musical based on Pride, the film about the very unusual relationship between the gay community of London during the strike and the National Union of Miner Strike in the days of Arthur Scargill versus Maggie Thatcher and a Welsh mining community.

We went and had an interesting time over in Hammersmith once a month.

The dervishes come out and do their whirling and all the rest of it.

If they lose lots of money, that's totally up to them.

We don't care, as trade unionists, how the business, the businesses that our m- our guys, our, our members work for, we don't care how much money they lose or how unsustainable they become." The last trade unionist to really try this line within British society was Arthur Scargill, the, the miners' leader in the nine- early 1980s.

Arthur Scargill said when, uh, the then Conservative government said, "If pits, if, if mining pits are losing money, they should be closed down," right? "We can't be subsidizing loss-making coal mining pits." And Arthur Scargill said, "I don't care if they're losing money.

Doesn't make any difference.

We're just gonna go on strike, and we're gonna hold the entire country to ransom because we just don't care about sustainability.