The miners got him taped
26th March 1983, Page 32
26th March 1983
Page 32
Page 32, 26th March 1983
— The miners got him taped
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Keywords :
Mining In The United Kingdom, Arthur Scargill, Pressure Sensitive Tape, Scargill, Carton, Politics Of The United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Business, Human Interest
A COMPETITION to find the most unusual application for vinyl packaging tape, which held a car boot lid firmly shut for more than 3,000 miles of winter motoring, has been sponsored by Carton Industries. I was going to suggest its use to seal Arthur Scargill's mouth but the miners beat me to it. In doing so they probably saved lorry drivers from ugly incidents engineered to gratify the frustrated gauleiter of Barnsley.
Meanwhile I have been celebrating the centenary of the death of his preceptor, Karl Marx. That was a great day for humanity. The tragedy is that he was born at all.
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Karl Marx, Arthur Scargill