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Blood coming up and happen are, why a multi-millionaire Yorkshire

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football club chairman claims the 50 pence tax rate is a no-go for

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1711 seconds

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Good afternoon. He were watching the Sunday politics for Yorkshire,

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Lincolnshire than the North Midlands. Coming up: it tycoon's

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tax warning. The owner of Yorkshire's highest place football

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club is worth as much as the Queen. He thinks the 50 pence tax rate for

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top honours is unknown goal for our economy. Our guests, welcome. Less

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than 72 hours away from the budget, what should be Chancellor be doing

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to boost the economic prospects here in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire?

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A desperately need a budget for jobs and growth. We need to see

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infrastructure investment brought forward, not to 2014 but to today.

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We also need to see a temporary VAT drop which would help stimulate

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demand in the retail sector. We need a stimulus to help young

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people get into jobs and we need more investment in the economy to

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see the rock that will help us out of the crisis we are run.

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Should we listen to that advice? I am fairly sure that we will be

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listening to the advice of many people. Are the most important

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thing about the Budget is to ensure that we sustained a sensible course.

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We obviously want to see investment and to see the economy growing but

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we want that on the long term and not just a short-term fix.

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There is plenty to talk about because the Chancellor is

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reportedly looking at cutting the top rate of income tax for the

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highest of earners. It is a move criticised by Labour but will be

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welcomed by at least one supporter of Ed Miliband. As some Allam is

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the owner of Hull City football club. He believes the continuation

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of the higher tax rate will drive many entrepreneurs out of the

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country. The recent Sunday Times Rich List

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has suggested that Assem Allam was once a little under �300 million.

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East Yorkshire based businessman says he is fed up with handing over

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half his income to the taxman. of my friends who have leapt -- who

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have Wells have left the country. When people leave the country to

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avoid the 50% and their export their capital with them. The same

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thing -- there is a government scheme to invite foreign

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businessmen to come here. Look after your own people first because

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they leave the country because of this high taxation system.

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At the moment, there is a big debate going on in government over

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the future of the 50 pence top rate of tax which applies to people who

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are over �150,000 per year. There has also been top of a mansion tax

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and some Liberal Democrats would like to see a specific tycoon tax.

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That is one of a number of ideas that we have as a party. I think it

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is a very interesting idea. It could help to ensure that we make

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sure that the wealthiest of this country pay their fair share of tax.

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The top rate of tax was introduced under Labour. Many in the party

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believe it should remain. We have to get the deficit down and

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to do that, it means higher taxes, cuts in spending and getting jobs

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and brought back on track. It is right that those with the broadest

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shoulders share some of the pain of getting the deficit down.

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The think it is right that wealthy people should pay their fair share?

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Yes, but we live and a small world and there are no borders now. If

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you tell me, work hard, and I pay 50%, and I can swim to Holland

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where I pay 20 or 30%, you are risking, and it is actually

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happening, that many people with millions of pounds have left the

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country. All of the says he does not support

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one political party, he invited Ed Miliband to watch Hull City play

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last Saturday. Despite the Labour leader cancelling an appearance at

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the protest due to ill health. The gathering for National Health

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was cancelled because there was doubt about him coming. But the

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football match is there, regardless, The success of Assem Allam's

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generator company in the East Yorkshire has led to the Egyptian-

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born businessman becoming as wealthy as the Queen, but it will

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be up to the Chancellor to decide how much he and many others pay to

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her Majesty's Treasury. Fabian Hamilton, the 50 pence tax

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rate was introduced under Labour. What you make of that claim that

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many entrepreneurs will leave the country unless the tax burden is

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reduced? With great respect to him, who is a

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very good business person, I think that is a load of rubbish. I do not

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see people leaving this country because of the 50p tax rate.

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�150,000 per year there's a lot of money and it is more than the Prime

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Minister learns. It seems to me that nobody needs that amount of

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money. If they pay an extra �10, then that is the wealthy paying

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their way to help the screes medal and the poorest in our country to

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help pay off that deficit. I will bring in Helen Alexander. A

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single mum of three from North Yorkshire and also part of the

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occupier leads protest last year, the anti-capitalist protest. Would

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you like to see the rich paying less tax?

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Absolutely not. This proposal, at a time like now, it is disgusting. If

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we needed proof that the coalition government and politics in general

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does not listen to the average working person and families in

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general, the fact they can suggest this is the proof.

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Do you think Mr Osborne will cut the top rate of tax?

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I have no idea of what the Chancellor's is planning -- the

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Chancellor's plan is. But this has come from backbench MPs and the

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media, slightly unfair to say it is the coalition government not

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listening to people. But we have to work with pragmatism. There is a

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philosophical argument about taxation and that is fine and the

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left and the right never agree about that. But the pragmatic

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argument is, what is raising the most money at a time like this? We

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are hoping and I'm sure you will pay -- he will raise the bottom

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threshold for paying tax which will have a lot of people out of

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taxation, but if the figures show that less income tax has been

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collected through the 50 pence tax, that needs to be addressed. It is

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not a philosophical argument but the pragmatic argument for me.

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it is symbolic. Helen is right. If you are saying to people who are

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really screes and having trouble raising three kids as a single

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parent, that we are going to lead the Reds of a little bit of tax,

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that is patently unfair. I entirely agree. But what I want

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to see is the best way of getting the tax out of the people who can

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afford to pay out and if you are paying -- taxing to a level where

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it is very easy for rich people to jump over the border where they

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don't pay as much tax, that is not a solution.

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Let me go back to Helen. Isn't there an argument that we need

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entrepreneurs and wealth creators. We need them to pay tax year so

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that we can pay child benefit and tax credits.

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Absolutely, we need them here but we need them to take a moral

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decision to contribute to their own country. It simply is not

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acceptable to say, I will lead this country to pay less tax elsewhere.

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-- leaves. While we do like to see from this

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Budget? A I would like to see something that would actually help

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my family. A some redress of the tax credit

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changes that are coming which will reduce my own family's income by

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�530 per year. It seems ridiculous that my family faces that kind of

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cut to our income and yes somebody on �150,000 per year it is going to

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be given a tax break. Can you justify that? Many are

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single mothers facing cuts to their tax credits but the reds are

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getting the cuts? We have made just clarify, I think

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Helen is a single parents, and its you talking about the fat you

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cannot get to 16 hours or 24 hours per week, because 16 hours is for

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single parents and couples will be extended to 24 hours to get their

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cut -- their tax credits. There will be a period of disparity but

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hopefully by raising the income tax threshold and various other tweaks

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and the increase in child benefit, child benefit tax credits,

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hopefully that will balance this out in some way.

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The problem is that as we had this debate in the House of Commons just

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over a week ago, it is very difficult for a lot of people who

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have to raise their hours of work per week actually finding those

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hours. Employers are saying they do not have the hours available.

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If you could finish off, Helen, and you could wave a magic wand and

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have one was from the Chancellor, what with that be?

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They say a economy that recognises the efforts of working people and

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isn't giving will -- ridiculous tax breaks to the rich.

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We will see. A special programme tomorrow night looking at the

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Budget. It will look at people in all walks of life looking at the

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cost of living and her financial It is time for the week's political

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The big guns have turned up at what must be one of the shortest

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campaigns in by-election history. Apart from the three main party

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candidates, another five are standing in the Bradford West by-

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election which takes place in just under two weeks' time. With David

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Cameron in Washington, the deputy taunted Nick Clegg. Man-to-man,

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what does he really think? There are now 261,000 jobless

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people in Yorkshire and the Humber. The unemployment rate is now 9.8%.

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By Emily, Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell claims the lives of a

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politician is not attractive to Britain's top graduates any more.

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It is a combination of the role, the difficulties in doing it and

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the salary. I think there is a suggestion that

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the �65,000 per year salary for MPs is not enough to attract the right

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calibre of people into politics. Do you agree?

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It is a lot of money, I think it is perfectly adequate. The standard

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and quality of the new intake of MPs on all sides is outstanding. I

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totally refute that argument. You are a relatively new MPs. Do

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you think equality of politicians has dropped?

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I can only draw on what experienced people in the house have said and

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people like Jack Straw are saying that the current intake is one of

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the highest calibre or he has ever seen. Where I that fundamentally

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disagree is the fact is that you don't going to politics to make

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money. You going because it is a Colling and you feel that you can

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help people, this is a vocational job does like teaching, nursing or

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being a vicar. The Bradford West by-election is in

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full swing. Has it gripped Westminster?

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Not really, nobody is really talking about it. The people that

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are talking about it are just very sad that he had to step down. That

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is what people are talking about. There will be a special programme

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next week. It has been billed as the antidote to the Oscar-winning

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blockbuster, the Iron Lady. They play about the life of Arthur

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Scargill starts in Barnsley this A or, God! Thatcher is dead. It

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wasn't in the Guardian. This play has a very different

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opening to the Oscar-winning Iron Lady.

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This is Meryl Streep, the DVD sales will go through the do so.

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A 74-year-old Arthur Scargill working on a book with his

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publisher in his London flat discovers his arch enemy is dead.

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It says off a chain of events and recollections that test the

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strengths and weaknesses of the controversial leader of the year-

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long miners' strike and the subsequent near destruction of the

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industry. The magnificent way and reds are

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young people in this industry have... -- in which.

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It is unlikely that the play will In January members of the miners'

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wives support group calling themselves the real Iron Lady's

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picketed aid cinema in Chesterfield on the day that the film was

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released. A where there is discord, may we bring harmony.

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What did they make of it? Two of them were in the audience on

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opening night sitting alongside a couple of retired miners' union

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leaders and two stance conservative Thatcherite.

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Disappointment was the word on my mind. I do not find the characters

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really believable. That absolute sense of resentment

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and anger about the destructive course that was one least on the

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miners and miners communities, that came through quite strongly.

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I was hoping for a more accurate portrayal than the Iron Lady.

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The row at aspects of it but just not realistic. A live what?

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Barter's gargle never uses a computer and never has as long as I

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have known him. The acting is superb. But I think

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the content is not quite what I expected. There is so much emotion

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and I wanted to see more of the facts.

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One of the aims we have been Barnsley is to create circumstances

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which would allow a new industry to be brought into the area.

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Constantly harking back of the events of 30 years ago have is not

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helping in that respect. In fact, it might do more harm than good.

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Why did you do it? Why did you leave -- lead the National Union of

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Mineworkers into that struggle? Why didn't to compromise? I will tell

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you. Because I was right. It has not really been examined in

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this way before. The misunderstood almost under -- misinterpreted

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character, whatever way you look at him, he was interesting.

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The offer of a Seeds was turned down by Arthur Scargill. It will

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now go on tour. I am going to step out into a

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country that no longer contains a living Margaret Thatcher. Enjoy it.

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I will. Quite controversial, a play that

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effectively celebrates the death of Margaret Thatcher, will some

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Conservatives be upset? I think, to celebrate the death of

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anybody is slightly beyond the pale. It always amazes me that there are

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those on the at extra money star ASH extremities who celebrates

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death and destruction -- certain people at the extremities to

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celebrate death and destruction. Anything that qualifies anybody

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dying is wrong. A do we really want to have a

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retrospective on the miners' strike, are pretty dark period in your to

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history? I don't know. It is supposed to be

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an entertainment. I would agree that I don't want to celebrate

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anybody's death, I would rather celebrate the death of her ideas

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but they are enjoying a resurgence at the moment which is a shame.

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Entertainment is fine but the premise that we should celebrate

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anybody dying is rather sad. Let's look at the ideas and the

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principles, the values. That is what is important, I think.

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Do you think it is important for young people to learn about this

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period in our history? I think it is very important. It

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should allow a debate on the issues and on the political loss of these

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at the time, where it came about. One thing which I was always clear

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about and I am clear about now it is that he was a union leader who

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ignored or did not want to carry out a ballot of all of his members

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because he wanted to change the delicate -- the democratically-

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elected government of the country, and in my opinion he took a lot of

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hard working people up the garden path.

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A I would agree with much of that but it is sad that he turned out to

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be right about the death of the coal industry and what he and the

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union leaders it was trying to do was defend the future of the coal

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