RIP Jimmy Reid

[golach]

Rest in peace Jimmy, one Scotlands better Trade Unionists.
I will never forget his speech

"We are not going to strike. We are not even having a sit-in strike.
Nobody and nothing will come in and nothing will go out without our permission. And there will be no hooliganism, there will be no vandalism, there will be no bevvying because the world is watching us."

And it worked!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anfield]

Ditto.
The only blemish on his career was joining the SNP

[pegasus]

His speech to the occupying shipbuilders weas even shown abroad
He managed to save three yards fron closure and won suport from John Lennon and Billy Conolly.

[peter macdonald]

Jimmy Reid was a very special guy RIP
PM

Annfield Maybe Jimmy joined the SNP because he saw it as more socialist than new Labour ...but that would not have been hard
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/scotland/4462871.stm

[Anfield]

Thatchers tories were more Socialist than Blair/Mandelsons New Labour!.

[golach]

This thread was posted as a tribute to a man, who on my opinion was a great Trade Unionist, nothing to do with his political beliefs.
So Anfield, KEEP your comments to the political threads, and stop disrupting threads as you usually do, you ignorant Scouse Gitt[disgust]



Ditto.
The only blemish on his career was joining the SNP


Thatchers tories were more Socialist than Blair/Mandelsons New Labour!.

[Anfield]

So Anfield, KEEP your comments to the political threads, and stop disrupting threads as you usually do, you ignorant Scouse Gitt[disgust]

cloned meat/milk? or GM crops, show your opinion thread
I had a couple of Beef burgers the other day, they both tasted exactly the same, could they have been cloned?

Jealous neighbours thread
"Who knows you might live next door to tiger woods and his clique, a fate worse than death"

She dosen't object to "Queen of England" thread
"Are you now policing the Org sandy? Why should Crackeday consider his words more carefully? Pegasus has brought the anti jewish feelings into this thread earlier. And also why leave fred out of the..
Are you now policing the Org sandy? Why should Crackeday consider his words more carefully? Pegasus has brought the anti jewish feelings into this thread earlier. And also why leave fred out of the.."

Above are just a couple of your recent posts.
What was that you were saying about me "..disrupting threads as you normally do.."

In respect to Jimmy Reid I will not lower myself to insulting you, or the place of your birth.
You could learn an awful lot about being a nicer person from the late Mr Reid.

[grumpyhippo]

Back to the subject please.

Jimmy Reid was was a person who, even if you didn't agree with him, earned the respect of anyone who listened to him. What you got from Jimmy Reid was exactly what was 'said on the tin'. British politics are less by his loss.