There was a period around the end of the strike when rumours in the press abounded that Arthur Scargill misused the £300 million held in the mineworker’s pension fund. Not being very political in the first place and soundly cheesed off by all things political by 1985, I just shrugged. The British Press, the Daily Mirror in particular had a wonderful time monopolising on the dispute to boost circulation figures and, like all the tabloids, lived for sensationalism. At the time the Daily Mirror was owned by Robert Maxwell, the man who chose to fall off the back of his yacht rather than live to own up to using employees pensions to prop up his investments. Quite frankly I would have believed anything of the NUM and the press. In writing this I decided to find out the truth, just in the interests of curiosity.
The 1984 Miners Strike
