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When someone says we never want to go back to the 1970s, we say: we do, the quicker the better!

I find it interesting that the leaders of the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party are all calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister and the Attorney General on the grounds that they acted unlawfully in advising the Queen to prorogue Parliament. Are these party leaders also going to call for the resignation of Lord Burnett, the Lord Chief Justice; Sir Terence Etherton, the Master of the Rolls; and Dame Victoria Sharp, the President of the Queen's Bench Division, who ruled that the Prime Minister acted legally?

If Kinnock had given his full support and called on workers to support the strike - as the party did in 1981 - Thatcher would have been out of office, in my view, within a year. Neil Kinnock, by his failure to call on workers to not cross picket lines, betrayed the miners.

I am sick and tired of listening to the so-called experts today who still criticise the Soviet Union and, in particular, Stalin.

Over the years, I have repeatedly said that we didn't come close to total victory in October 1984 - we had it, and at the very point of victory we were betrayed. Only the Nacods leaders know why.

We have also seen how many who, like Kinnock, bleated constantly about the need for a ballot during the miners' strike didn't call for the British people to have a ballot in 2003 when Tony Blair took the nation into an unlawful war and the occupation of Iraq.

The coal industry and British miners are at the centre of a political maelstrom.

It is time that all of us were not merely determined to repeal all the anti-trade union legislation. If you are serious and you are socialist you go one stage further. You defy the law. You do not accept it.