The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. In 2012, the flat was valued at 1,500,000, and had 24/7 access to concierge services. [16] One branch of the NUM, at Annesley in Nottinghamshire, put forward a vote of no confidence in Scargill in autumn 1983 following his comments on these matters, but Scargill defeated this at a December meeting and won a vote of confidence instead. In 1965 he was elected Branch Delegate from Woolley to the Yorkshire NUM Area Council, and in 1969 was elected a member of the Yorkshire NUM Area Executive Committee. "It's sad to be inthis position. They lived in the house Scargill grew up in Worsborough, South Yorkshire. In Grimethorpe, 100% of the miners were on strike. Mention of him draws a quick response. IVE heard from Ron The Guvnor who on receiving his car renewal of 755 for his BMW an increase of 300 without a claim told his insurers they had a good chance of appearing in my column unless there was a reduction. "It's strange, because Arthur was a media person. I suggest to this Conference that we have coal mines with us but they did something about this problem: they closed them down. It was alleged that, of the money donated from Libya, Scargill took 29,000 for his own bridging loan and 25,000 for his home in Yorkshire, but gave only 10,000 to the striking Nottinghamshire miners. Among those matters, he says, is Scargill's attempt to use Right to Buy,and the NUM's claim that Scargill somehow managed to buy his current house when he was not being paid by the union. Arthur had told me that under no circumstances was he going to give an interview. "Two Kinds of Reform: Left Leadership in the British National Union of Mineworkers and the United Mineworkers of America, 19821990. A former miner and vice-president of the Yorkshire NUM, he now serves as the treasurer of the Socialist Labour Party, the would-be challenger to Tony Blair that Scargill founded in 1996, whose membership has since dwindled to around 300. Arthur Scargill at a mass rally in 1984, during his time as NUM leader (PA) Margaret Thatcher: . In 1974, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that led Prime Minister Edward Heath to call a February general election.[13]. Even if talent is thin on the ground could I suggest the Crime Commissioners of Leicestershire and West Midlands do us all a favour by throwing out their deranged Chief Constables. And then there is the real Arthur Scargill. In 1958, he attended the World Federation of Trade Unions youth congress in Prague. {{ #verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ ^verifyErrors }}Something went wrong. Lord Tebbit, one of Lady Thatchers closest allies, said: The trades union generals had brought down Ted Heaths Government. First, I ring the bell, to no avail, then usea door knocker in the shape of a miner's lamp. They cut it by 255. But an issue like that it wasn't easy to come to a compromise. After the miners' strike, Scargill was elected to lifetime presidency of the NUM by an overwhelming national majority, in a controversial election in which some[who?] But he will not be drawn any further. Milne, Seumas. " "He's OK," says Capstick. The editor of the Daily Mirror at the time, Roy Greenslade, wrote an article in The Guardian in May 2002 to apologise to Scargill for the false claims about paying off the mortgage and for putting too much trust in Roger Windsor, who at the time had still not repaid the 29,500 that he had taken from the Miners' Welfare Fund and that the Lightman Report had asked that he repay. British trade unionist Arthur Scargill marching with his wife Anne and other miners' wives during a protest in London, UK, 12th August 1984. On a nearby mantelpiece is a small pink calendar, filling up with dates: academic seminars, radio shows, outdoor festivals and more. At the top, surrounded by sunbeams, is the single word "socialism": the destination that, some would say, decisively disappeared from view midway through the 1980s. Mr Scargill first came to prominence in the early 1970s, when he was involved in a mass picket at the Saltley Gate coking plant in Birmingham. "Goodbye to all that? "Now, good day to you." They had one daughter named Margaret. We stood and fought against enormous odds, and not just for the pits for our way of life. And as Iwas in the area, it would be remiss of me not to knock on his door. Since 2010, Scargill has been battling its current leadership, on issues pertaining to Scargill himself, and matters relating to both the people now in charge of the union, and a small handful of miners who have tried to dislodge them. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Arthur Scargill emerged from semi-retirement from politics to speak at a meeting of the Communist Party of Britain's wretched little pro-Brexit front organisation Leave Fight Transform (LeFT) in Brighton on 11 September, alongside Eddie Dempsey (the man who said Tommy Robinson supporters were right to hate the "liberal left") and other assorted xenophobes, nationalists and social . He was succeeded by Ian Lavery. When the suggestion was put to Mr Cole, why didnt he say the idea was out of the question, not least because the public would want to see an officers face? He was responsible for leading two pivotal miners' strikes: one in 1937 and another in the mid-1980s. We've got food banks now, but they're doing clothing banks for children and babies as well.". Terms of use |
Its energy is that of Mother Gaia. However, in 1979, the Conservatives were able to win again under Margaret Thatcher, and destroy the majority of the Labour Party. In time he and his family moved to a more comfortable, modern home in the town where he grew up. They need this like a hole in the head.. Staff members suddenly taken ill, or with long-standing medical appointments, require his personal consent to be absent from the office. The power is amazing. "Leadership in the Miners Union-Scargill, Arthur Rise to Power. After all hes 78 and the old fraud must go some time. Those who walk a Life Path with Number 6 gift the world with unconditional love, healing and nurturing. He was 17 at the time of the strike, and an active picketer, in Yorkshire and elsewhere. ", Howell, David, et al. They came back to me, and said: 'We'll up it to 10,000.' They'll probably be 10 or 11 now.". He founded the Socialist Labour Party in 1996, after he left the Labour Party. When remembering this, she brims with the same rage she must have felt at the time. Back at the NUM I have an appointment to meet Betty Cook and Anne Scargill, to discuss the 30th anniversary of the miners' strike of 1984-5, which began in Yorkshire during the opening days of March 1984. The staff at headquarters issued a press statement in January 1983 to deny this and to list twelve grievances against Scargill's treatment of his staff. [52], The Guardian in February 2014 said that Scargill had become a recluse. In 1990, Scargill was accused in a series of Daily Mirror articles of mishandling money donated for the striking miners during the 19841985 strike, with many of the sources being those who had previously worked with him in the NUM such as Kim Howells, Jim Parker and Roger Windsor. Hundreds of strikers were arrested, including Scargill and his wife. ARE our chief constables going quite potty? In 2014, it was reported that Scargill had become a recluse. That violence strengthened the stature of the Coal Board and the Thatcher government. The values are responsibility, family, long-term goals. He was the representative of the Yorkshire miners. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? [36] In September 1990, the Certification Officer brought criminal charges against Scargill and Heathfield for wilfully neglecting to perform the union's duty to keep proper accounting records. He regularly attended Workers' Educational Association (WEA) classes and Co-operative Party educational programmes, and in 1962, undertook a three-year, part-time course at the University of Leeds, where he studied economics, industrial relations and social history. ', Mr Scargill replied simply: Scargill Alive!. One he enjoys showing the world: The great trade unionist, the great Socialist, the great fighter against the evils of capitalism, the man who would walk 1,000. That's what I believe". [54] He gave a rare television interview to ITV News at that time. Allies of Scargill counter that there is a clear and present danger that the funds will be misused, and as the union's membership shrinks, they want its handsome holdings to somehow be ploughed back into former mining communities. There was some controversy in February 1985 when Times journalist Paul Routledge engaged the Queen in discussion on the strike, and the Queen said that the strike was "all about one man", which Routledge objected to. HAVING just been charged 349.20 to replace a rear brake light unit on my Mercedes ML 250. Their life sentences were eventually reduced to eight years. "I would have thought that someone who was public enemy number one, with MI5 tapping his calls and following him, and everything else they were allegedly doing to him I'm very surprised he managed to live the life hedid and get away with what he did without being pulled up," he says. The strike started in Yorkshire, and he was not present at the delegate Council meeting in Barnsley. Herein, she says, lies a direct link to what she did three decades ago. He is best known for leading the UK miners' strike (1984-85), a major event in the history of the British labour movement. The house in which he was born and in which he lived for his first three years had neither plumbing nor electricity. As late as 2009, it was said that Scargill was estranged not just from Anne, but his daughter, Margaret, and her husband and, by extension, his twin grandsons. Let them eat cake! [9] At the subsequent enquiry, he used notebooks of underground working from the 19th century, retrieved from the Institute of Geological Sciences in Leeds, to argue that the National Coal Board could have prevented the disaster had they acted on the information available. He was defeated on both occasions. Arthur Scargill joins rail picket line in Sheffield Former NUM leader says he feels duty-bound to offer his support to striking workers, and has choice words for Starmer and Johnson Arthur. 10 Dec 2012. McIlroy, J. Of all the people I can think of Scargill, is the least deserving of tenants. [14] The section under "staff procedures" details how Scargill monitored head office staff: Mr. Scargill's vendetta against Head Office staff has at times descended to the most puerile and paranoic [sic] levels. The following year, he also became a member of the Labour Party. Arthur Scargill's name is on the list of union officials that adorns one wall, but that is it: among the banners, memorabilia and countless images of the strike, he is nowhere to be seen. According to one of Scargill's oldest friends, former miner Derek Stubbings, now 74, who worked at Woolley pit with him and was a fellow 'Young Red' in the British Communist Party, Scargill busies . In 1961, Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee. [21] Many politicians, including the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock, believed Scargill had made a huge mistake in calling the strike in the summer rather than in the winter. There's more to this new Arthur Scargill chic than mere fashion nostalgia. [29], In 1998, Scargill and his wife, Anne, separated.[30]. [38], Film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series. [17], The government announced on 6 March 1984 its intention to close 20 coal mines, revealing as well the plan in the long-term to close over 70 pits. You've been found out. I said: 'I'll pass it on. [5] In 1957 he was elected NUM Yorkshire Area Youth Delegate, and attended the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow as a representative of the Yorkshire miners. ", Gildart, Keith. I have since received an email from Alex Cruz, the chief executive and chairman of BA, apologising for my experience. Every Monday, she says, she helps out a local church project that gives free breakfasts to whoever shows up. "He's. "Goodbye to all that? "I shall never, ever forgive the police for doing that to me," she says. "The way I would put that is this," he says. He became a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee, in 1961. View our online Press Pack. Scargill was the only child of his parents. Or are the Scargills effectively hoping to make a quick return by flogging the joint immediately and trousering 1million tax free? To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. He has contested two parliamentary elections. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". I've never criticised Arthur for what he did during the strike, because I didn't know the ins and out of it at the time. In May 2009, he was a candidate for the Socialist Labour Party for one of London's seats in the European Parliament. It is now worth around 2million. So our conscience is clear. His comments followed a question in the Commons from Labour MP Lisa Nandy, who said the miners and their families deserved an apology for the mine closures. In 2016 it was reported that the grandfather of two was living in a three-bedroom detached country house in Yorkshire owned by his. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Some of the cash was provided by his daughter Dr Margaret Scargill. Arthur Scargill, I ask you. I got my mobile phone, and I sent him a text. [45], For years the NUM had been paying 34,000 annual rent for the flat on Scargill's instructions, without the knowledge of NUM members or many senior officials; Scargill claimed the NUM should continue funding his flat for the rest of his life, and thereafter for any widow who survived him. Self defense expert shares live-saving hacks for evading ALL kinds of attacks - from cutting Do not sell or share my personal information. Online calculator reveals how inflation-busting 14.4% hike will Aldi and Lidl shoppers face highest inflation hikes: Cost of basic groceries rise by more than 20% at the Is inflation FINALLY on the way down? "Yes. You couldnt make this up. He led an unofficial strike in 1969, and played a key organising role during strikes of 1972 and 1974, the latter of which played a part in the downfall of Edward Heath's Conservative government. "I never, ever talk about my ex-husband," says Anne Scargill. "Don't you think I've done enough without him?". Im massively in favour of the council sales and can well remember a friends father buying then selling his council house in Bromley, South East London, and having a fabulous retirement in Poole on the money. He reaches for his phone and shows me what he received. "They asked me to relay that to him. [4] He joined the Young Communist League in 1955, becoming its Yorkshire District Chair in 1956 and shortly after a member of its National Executive Committee. Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who used to be the president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Arthur Scargill was born on 11th January 1938, in Worsbrough Dale, in South Yorkshire, England, into a family of coal miners. Scargill and his wife Anne, herself a miner's daughter and an active organizer of miners' groups, had one daughter, Margaret. Mr Scargill replied simply: 'Scargill Alive! His eyes have sunk a little into his face; the voice is deeper and huskier than it once was. He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School). Arthur Scargill, the son and grandson of coal miners, was born in Worsborough, South Yorkshire, in 1938. They had one daughter named Margaret. "[28] This was in the Prime Minister's rejection of Labour calls for an apology for government actions during the 19841985 miners' strike. Even Muslim groups think the idea is mad. Had he done the humble thing and walked away with what he were entitled to, his reputation would still be intact.". It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the trade union movement. "[46] Kitchen says that Scargill "has had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. In Fridays column I wrote about the difficulty forces were having in finding officers good enough to step up to Chief Constable with both Lincolnshire and the Met struggling to find the right calibre of applicant. And make it a prerequisite of hiring that the next ones give an undertaking that they do not believe female Muslim officers should wear the full Islamic dress. says Scargill. I think people would be astounded if they knew that."[42]. The sneak has tried to pocket a smallfortune while proclaiming to be the great fighter against the evils of capitalism and the elite. He arrived at the colliery to find he could not get into his office because someone had super-glued the door shut. There, he met Russian leaders such as Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. If you're out for a wage increase, you can cut a deal. ", She then shoots me a look. Arthur Scargill's life path number is 6 Life Path Number 6 represent 'The Nurturer'. "If you've got a young lad at school and he's being bullied, and he comes out of school at the end of the day and the bully is waiting for him, to give him a good hiding the bully may be bigger than him, but he has a choice. They're at it again! Why should the leader of the Socialist Labour Party (a Corbyn ally naturally) be allowed to pocket a million? It just said: 'Thatcher dead.' He has his relatives around him, his two grandsons ". [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. On 25 August 2010, it was reported that Scargill had been told that he no longer qualified for full membership of the NUM under union rules that he had helped draw up, but was only eligible for "life", "retired" or "honorary" membership, none of which carried voting rights. Is it time Harry & Meghan accept Clarkson's apology and move on? [57] Scargill supported the 2022 United Kingdom railway strike, joining an RMT picket line in Wakefield on 21 June 2022. I'm not interested in any woman in the who le world.. SCARGILL LEAVES HIS WIFE AFTER 37 YEARS; My marriage is over he tells pals. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. [31] There was much criticism of Scargill within the NUM from the Welsh and Scottish areas, who briefly considered splitting from the NUM. 6 teaches true compassion and empathy. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dear+Arthur+Scargill%2c+before+you+let+your+daughter+marry+my+love-+rat-a060693318. Airport staff at Leeds-Bradford Airport identified Scargill attempting to travel under a false name (Arthur Fenn) wearing a disguise on 20 July, and turned him away to purchase a genuine ticket with his true identity. "I don't know what a deal would have been," he says. I presume Ms Tandohs bile is based on the fact she was NFI (not flipping invited) or more seriously NEFC (never even flippin considered) for the role at C4. But my father never forced me to be involved in politics at all.[5]. Five seconds later, the door creaks open, and there he is: the man who onceparried the huge forces of British industrial history, dressed in a white-and-blue check shirt and light blue denim trousers. So what is Arthur Scargill's salary per year? Peter, Gibbon. 'No.' He took a part-time course as well at the University of Leeds. Wheat it and weep! His last formal tussle with Scargill came on 13 February, when Scargill took four matters to an Employment Appeal Tribunal, and was granted a future hearing. 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Scargill was often accompanied by his then wife Anne Harper to speak at picket lines and to media appearances; Harper was simultaneously involved in founding and leading the National Women Against Pit Closures movement. Thats what right-to-buy did for ordinary people. he council chamber at the Barnsley HQ of theNational Union of Mineworkers is a jaw-dropping sight: a huge, oak-panelled room, draped with banners that were once kept at collieries across Yorkshire and beyond. Would you not love to have Arthur Scargill as your opponent in any debate, a man who is frightened to go to his own members to get them to vote for a strike that he called? Photograph: Don Mcphee for the Guardian. [14], Scargill was a very vocal opponent of Thatcher's Conservative government, frequently appearing on television to attack it. We got 111. 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People have said things about him and his affairs, and it's only fair that he should be given a chance to respond. Some historians have provided interpretations and explanations of the defeat. An email came back: 'No.' It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. Scargill, along with veteran left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn, campaigned to free strikers Russell Shankland and Dean Hancock from prison. [35] Negotiations between Scargill and the NUM took place in France. David Wilkie, who died instantly, leaving behind a 2 year old daughter and his pregnant fiancee who gave birth 6 weeks later. [53], Scargill still occasionally gives interviews and makes appearances. "But we've had to move to new premises. They're all talking about the bedroom tax, and not being able to afford a good meal." The council chamber at the Barnsley HQ of theNational Union of Mineworkers is a jaw-dropping sight: a huge, oak-panelled room, draped with banners that were once kept at collieries across Yorkshire and beyond. [7], Scargill became involved in the Yorkshire Left, a group of left-wing activists involved in the Yorkshire region of the NUM, its largest region. Arthur Scargill is now 76. That couldnt be true as she announced after the series ended she was gay. To be paid 400,000-a-year to eat cake for an hour makes it the least onerous and most highly paid TV job with the exception of football pundit. So how is he? More than 100 migrants suffer freezing temperatures to get to UK while French coastguard pluck another 45 Bad news, men 'winter penis' might be real after all, doctors say. Some strikers also believed the strike was against the constitution and denounced Scargill. [15] However, Scargill's statements in the years after becoming NUM president divided left-wing opinion with his support of the Soviet Union, most notably when he refused to support the TUC's positions on the Solidarity union in Poland or on the Soviet shooting down of the Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Exciting, witty Arthur Scargill brought coalmining to a close in Britain far faster than would have happened had the NUM been led by some prevaricating, dreary old-style union hack. They've made me worse.'". He can either cower down and take his beating, or he can stand and fight, and hope to maybe land a few punches. [19] The NUM had previously held three ballots on a national strike, all of which rejected the proposal: 55% voted against in January 1982, and 61% voted against in both October 1982 and March 1983.[20]. His major innovation was organising "flying pickets" involving hundreds or thousands of committed strikers who could be bussed to critical strike points to shut down a target. On the appointment of Ian MacGregor as head of the NCB in 1983, Scargill stated, "The policies of this government are clear to destroy the coal industry and the NUM". He also had an important role in the `Battle of Saltley Gate, that closed Birmingham`s Saltley coke depot. Unlike the strikes in the 1970s, the later strike ended with the miners' defeat and the Thatcher government was able to consolidate its fiscally conservative programme. [9] This performance strengthened his popularity with the Yorkshire miners. His time at the top of the union saw not just the strike and his union's defeat, but the rapid decline of the British coal industry not least in the early 1990s, when the-then trade minister Michael Heseltine announced that 31 ofthe UK's remaining 50 deep collieries were to shut. 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