At 01/08/02 11:04 -0400, you wrote:
Although, on the up side - or at least what sounds like an upside from the
other side of the puddle - there was quite an upset in the Amicus election
(Sir Ken Jackson, with the boot). Can you tell us anything about this
Derek Simpson fellah, Chris? The press
Arthur Scargill is due to resign today after 20 years as the leader of the
(British) National Union of Mine Workers.
Despite great courage he was beaten by Mrs Thatcher's attack on the miners.
The Union, which was said to have 250,000 members in 1981, is now said to
have only 5,000.
In 1996
Although, on the up side - or at least what sounds like an upside from the
other side of the puddle - there was quite an upset in the Amicus election
(Sir Ken Jackson, with the boot). Can you tell us anything about this Derek
Simpson fellah, Chris? The press have been just describing him as a
