put straight back in for it get a letter from your gp the people doing your medical dont have your medical records

Andy. the last I heard, DPW/Jobseekers were useing the sum of over £860 per week, in relation to REA. to claim REA you must have a Date Of Onset of the disease or Injury before 30th October 1990 bobby clelland Secretary West Fife Area Retired Miners Branch

The efforts of many members including M.P. members to address this issue was renaged on by the leaving government.

Well said Russ.I'm a comparative sprog(57)compared with some of the contributors on here,but I am old enough to remember when the old CPGB was on the scene.The way I remember things(and I'm open to correction by someone more knowledgeable)when the left experienced a surge BOTH Labour and Communist Parties benefited,and sadly vice versa.Russ has undoubtedly seen the UDM at close quarters.Stupid ignorant and apolitical,whilst at the same time sufficiently apathy-inducing to inhibit the kind of political change necessary to deliver an improved union service so vital in a hard/dangerous environment.Russ and his colleagues are right to oppose this malignant organisation AT EVERY TURN,and I'm optimistic that,with a new 'marriage of political convenience' to oppose nationally,we can become sufficiently thick-skinned enough to turn hands and brains to defeating reactionary forces wherever they raise their ugly heads.Nick.

your comments that each trade union is takeing potshots at each other is the legacy of the 84 strike.if the whole country had supported the num in 84/85,workers would be supported in the work place.the strike was for evey working persons rights,and to protect jobs.thats a lesson that the sacked bankers of this country have learnd the hard way.unfortunatly the miners union is not there to support them emas as the tories desimated the srongest union first.no matter who you were the union would stand for your democratic right to work.

If the advice of Steve Mace in his earlier contribution had been listened to then this situation would never have arisen.

Discusting that people are using this site to slate and slag about people. Any one who knows Ken knows he his 100% committed to the NUM. There is no wonder our country is in the state it's in if this is anything to go by.

I would have thought that Ken's mining/union record would speak for itself.Having NEVER had anything to do with the Downing Street Media Team must have been worth a few votes surely!?!.Yes it was a disappointing night for the SLP,but how about that electoral option spawned by the old Liberal Party with longstanding organisation,an established place in working-class mythology,TU funds(some sensibly held back for a re-run),a seeming total negation(in some cases by smooth weasel-worded thin-air promises)of activism(and,in the view of many,rejection of its core vote),tv exposure and 29% of the popular vote(in other words shy of the Blues by 2 million)?.Surely partisan triumphalism by New Labour supporters/apologists is hardly the line to take after what can only be described as a 'shafting' for all of us?!.The Lib-Dems(set to prop-up the Tories? and bolstered by exhortations to 'vote tactically' by The Mirror/New Labour right-wingers)are the real spoilers not Socialist Labour.I thought we'd need a 'notice of intention to creosote' to force public schoolboy Clegg/his crew off the fence!.The next few days should be interesting!.Having to combine those who returned to the pits in '85(13/3200 strikers)in my area with NUM supporters who hadn't struck(in order to limit the breakaway),called for pragmatism by those of us 'loyal to the last'I suppose.A pragmatism sadly lacking re comrade CJRK,who won't have brought those SLP-inclined Guestbook contributors(as opposed to party members)'back to the fold' with a mean-spirited,toxic personalised tirade such as this.If we'd have taken that approach(with indiscriminate use of the 's' word to potential supporters as well as the UDM),the joke by Leics Uni's Dr Bob Carter(Save the Cadley Hill 7!)may well have become a reality.Oh and BUGGER this spurious 'National Interest' nonsense,'cause my interpretation and that of a CBI bigwig may differ somewhat!.Nick Wroughton. Wroughton.