Battle Quote by Arthur Scargill

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money…

— Arthur Scargill

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

— Arthur Scargill

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

— Arthur Scargill

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in…

— Arthur Scargill

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

— Arthur Scargill

If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money…

— Arthur Scargill

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above…

— Arthur Scargill

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines…

— Arthur Scargill

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did…

— Arthur Scargill

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

— Arthur Scargill

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

— Arthur Scargill

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist…

— Arthur Scargill