{"id":16054,"date":"2016-11-08T15:11:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T15:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=16054"},"modified":"2016-11-08T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T15:11:24","slug":"sub-editors-comment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=16054","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is Arthur Scargill a Hypocrite?<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>In the 1980\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Arthur Scargill did not have a good word to say about Margaret Thatcher.   He was vocal in his opposition to her policies and particularly fought hard against the newly introduced \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcright to buy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 policy.<\/p>\n<p>It seems, however, he has recently taken advantage of this very same legislation he objected to in order to buy his City of London council flat, for which he has paid \u00c2\u00a31,000,000; significantly less than its true value.  <\/p>\n<p>He was given the use of the flat when he was president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in 1982 and has never passed it back.   The NUM are, themselves, now looking into how Mr Scargill was able to take advantage of right-to-buy rules to purchase the 3-bedroom London flat.<\/p>\n<p>He had tried to buy the flat previously.  He was, however, turned down by the City of London Corporation as they did not consider it be his principle residence.<br \/>\nThe second time he applied he was successful despite the rules. This may well be because he has since \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 his main residence to his daughter and son-in-law, making the Barbican flat his primary residence.<\/p>\n<p>Questions might well be raised in regard to his integrity 30 years on.  Has Scargill abandoned his principles \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in true Capitalist style \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to his now swelling wallet?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 www.propertysurveying.co.uk<br \/>\nRW<br \/>\n3-Nov-16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Arthur Scargill a Hypocrite? In the 1980\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Arthur Scargill did not have a good word to say about Margaret Thatcher. He was vocal in his opposition to her policies and particularly fought hard against the newly introduced \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcright to buy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 policy. It seems, however, he has recently taken advantage of this very same legislation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=16054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sub-Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Comment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-16054","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sub-Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Comment - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=16054\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sub-Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Comment - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Is Arthur Scargill a Hypocrite? 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