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. [9] When Bullough (unwell at the time) attempted to rule Scargill as "out of order", he was voted out by the area's delegates and a strike was declared across Yorkshire on the issue. Despite years of bitter battling with the Tories as they closed practically every mine in the early eighties, the bizarre u-turn by for the former union leader has been welcomed by the Conservatives. The two men had been convicted of the murder of David Wilkie, a taxi driver, by throwing a block of concrete from a bridge onto his car. [53] He was not attending any of the events to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 strike at the NUM. Princess of Wales recycles 1,600 orange Gabriella Hearst top and skirt and 349 Adorable moment the Princess of Wales and a little girl dressed as Snow White play with some sand during a No rest for Anne! He said he had been in the job five months and hopes to deliver strong consumer-friendly messages and services as I get a good hold on this fantastic company which has a lot of things to do to regain the position it once held.. But so far, Arthur Scargill is conspicuous by his absence. 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. He studied security videotapes and saw Mrs Scargill sneaking along a corridor with a tube of glue in her hands. I received one almost instantly saying Scargill alive! and hes very much alive. There, he met Russian leaders such as Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. "Two Kinds of Reform: Left Leadership in the British National Union of Mineworkers and the United Mineworkers of America, 19821990. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dear+Arthur+Scargill%2c+before+you+let+your+daughter+marry+my+love-+rat-a060693318. We got 111. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. ", R.R. If reports are true that British women volunteers are flocking to the Calais Jungle specifically to have sex with migrants, expect the camp to grow from the current 10,000 to the size of Africa in no time at all. He wouldn't say another word. [32] An internal NUM report by Gavin Lightman QC found that Scargill had used some of the Libyan money to pay for improvements to his bungalow but not to pay off his mortgage (as had been alleged),[33] and stated that Scargill's failure to make a full report on the Soviet money donated for the Welsh miners was "a remarkable breach of duty" and that he should repay the money back to the NUM. In a 1975 interview with New Left Review Scargill said: I was in the Young Communist League for about six or seven years and I became a member of its National Executive Committee responsible for industrial work. In 1964, he was also elected representative to the Yorkshire area meetings. "There's definitely a disproportionate amount of time and money being spent fighting Arthur Scargill rather than looking after the members and protecting the union," he tells me. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 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. Hundreds of strikers were arrested, including Scargill and his wife. He has contested two parliamentary elections. He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School). I hate all women. [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. It's too soon to say.". Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. The names of all incoming telephone callers are recorded on a central log. [37] Scargill reached an agreement to repay money to the NUM shortly after this. "It's sad to be inthis position. A PEACOCKING manchild lingering where the money is. MINERS' leader Arthur Scargill has left his wife after 37 years, it was revealed last night. Some of the cash was provided by his daughter Dr Margaret Scargill. He injured himself acouple of years ago playing penalty shoot-out with his grandkids. I cannot find parliamentary language to use to describe Arthur Scargill.. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". Mr Capstick told ITV News: Id been talking to Arthur some ten minutes earlier so I sent him a text message, a very short one, just said Thatcher dead. He was succeeded by Ian Lavery. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, Margaret Thatcher didn't expect it, but miners' wives galvanised the '84 strike, Labour calls on government to apologise over miners' strike, Thelong, slow death of the UK coal industry, Thatcher had secret plan to use army at height of miners' strike, Theclosure of Maltby colliery in pictures, the horrific police violence seen at the Orgreave coking plant. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. It's always those lower down who are suffering. After all hes 78 and the old fraud must go some time. [18], Miners were split between those who supported the strike and those who opposed it (see Union of Democratic Mineworkers). Hero of the working classes, Arthur Scargill, has joined the Conservative Party after they allowed the opening of a new coal mine in Cumbria. Was it an investment by her so she cleans up when he dies? The following year, he also became a member of the Labour Party. Scargill was divorced from his activist wife Anne in 2001. "It was Thatcher's legislation, actually giving council tenants the right to buy their own houses. He had also refused to speak to the media, after Margaret Thatcher`s death in 2013, though he was offered a sum of 16,000. However, by the time he grew up, the family was able to move to a better and more comfortable home. And as Iwas in the area, it would be remiss of me not to knock on his door. His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. 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The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. He listens to all this with an air of mild amusement. "I was either on a picket line, or in a soup kitchen. Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 19841985 miners' strike. 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. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Frederik White with his wife Jennifer and 16-month-old daughter Nicky. Scargill joined the Labour Party in 1962. In January 2014, the Prime Minister, David Cameron stated, "I think if anyone needs to make an apology for their role in the miners' strike it should be Arthur Scargill for the appalling way that he led the union. Three decades on from 1984, Kitchen says there are many aspects of the strike and its aftermath that have yet to be thrashed out in public: the precise details of what the Thatcher government were up to, the horrific police violence seen at the Orgreave coking plant, the involvement of MI5 and some matters relating to Arthur Scargill. My mother was strictly non-political. Scargill had condemned the killing 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. [3] The couple had a daughter together, Margaret Scargill, in 1962 who is now a practicing GP. [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. Privacy policy | Simon Cole, the Chief Constable of Leicestershire has followed the West Midlands Chief Constable and said he would consider Muslim officers wishes to wear burkas. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.". "He's OK," says Capstick. [9] This performance strengthened his popularity with the Yorkshire miners. Scargill, the former militant leader of. [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. "Analysing the British miners' strike of 19845.". 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". And Scargill, 60, has been dividing his time between a granny flat over his union's HQ in Barnsley, Yorks, and his pounds 300,000 London apartment. Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938) [1] is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He also stated regarding Brexit that "we should just invoke the first clause of Article 50 and that means we could leave the EU tomorrow". Scargill says that if he had succeeded, the property would have been eventually returned to the union; the NUM's leadership insists there is no evidence to back up this claim. They had one daughter named Margaret. [60][61], London Assembly elections (entire London city), "Scargill" redirects here. He became a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee, in 1961. Most viewed. 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. In the 2001 general election, he ran against Peter Mandelson in Hartlepool. Just to hammer the point home, it was in block capitals: "SCARGILL ALIVE! Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. Punnies always start Monday with a smile. He founded the Socialist Labour Party in 1996, after he left the Labour Party. Does that include him? They divorced in 2001. What I infer from that, I tell him, is that he believes the secret services deliberately turned a blind eye to some aspects of Scargill's life. The sneak has tried to pocket a smallfortune while proclaiming to be the great fighter against the evils of capitalism and the elite. So they shouldn't think they've scared me. Copyright 1998 Gale, Cengage Learning. [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. I have since received an email from Alex Cruz, the chief executive and chairman of BA, apologising for my experience. [52], The Guardian in February 2014 said that Scargill had become a recluse. 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. I don't know how far he's got. [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. He is best known for leading the UK miners' strike (1984-85), a major event in the history of the British labour movement. Loyal Anne Scargill, 57, has moved out of the couple's luxury pounds 200,000 bungalow. "He doesn't live lavishly, although he does like a glass of red wine. Another column reader, Sandra from Pinner, North West London, was quoted 767 to renew her car insurance by Direct Line. 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. ARTHUR SCARGILL has two faces. Here as elsewhere in post-industrial Yorkshire, the surrounding landscape attests to what arrived instead. Arthur Scargill is now 76. [39], During the media controversy, the antiperspirant Mitchum used Scargill's image, without his consent, under the slogan "Mitchum, for when you're really sweating! Most of Arthur's money comes from being a politician. So that was my initial introduction into socialism and into political militancy. "[28] This was in the Prime Minister's rejection of Labour calls for an apology for government actions during the 19841985 miners' strike. By 1984 however the police were ready and neutralized the tactic with superior force. having received a 500,000 discount. The fight was a political one, as well. He tells me he's writing a book. He felt that the Labour Party had betrayed the basic principles of the party`s constitution. His daughter is in leg braces and takes tenuous steps into parliament, while members shake her hand . "It's strange, because Arthur was a media person. He reaches for his phone and shows me what he received. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. We now know, for example, that until late 2012, the NUM paid 34,000 a year in rent for his council flat in the Barbican in London and that in 1993, he tried to use the Right to Buy scheme pioneered by Thatcher to buy it. "I am writing a book, but he'snot mentioned in it. "Five years ago, when I first started, if we got 30 or 40, we thought we'd got a lot," she says. Prince Albert of Monaco is the first Euro monarch to confirm he and his wife Keep calm and carry on! They brought down Jim Callaghans Government. 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. You couldnt make this up. On the first step, it says "nationalisation"; after that comes "the five-day week", "social security", "family allowances", "health and peace", and "prosperity and happiness". [14], The vast majority of head-office staff took redundancy rather than move to Sheffield. The strike ended on 3 March 1985 following an NUM vote to return to work. In 1974, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that led Prime Minister Edward Heath to call a February general election.[13]. And yesterday, do you know what? Several dispirited strikers decided to return to work after around a year, and the strike ended in a failure. Having been elected president of the NUM in 1981, Scargill held that position for just over 20 years. He was on television all the time: a charismatic character. Arthur Scargill wins 13,000 damages from National Union of Mineworkers. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) ", "It's Thatcher's legacy, isn't it?" Coles worker fights a woman allegedly trying to steal groceries, Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions. Scargill must be very proud that his campaigning had the convictions downgraded to manslaughter and both men released from prison in November 1989. . Former miners' leader Arthur Scargill loses his High Court fight to have the NUM continue to meet the costs of his London flat for his lifetime. But apparently not. For webmasters |. And he's done very well out of it.". However, in 1979, the Conservatives were able to win again under Margaret Thatcher, and destroy the majority of the Labour Party. "Don't you think I've done enough without him?". Scargill won widespread applause for his response to the disaster at Lofthouse Colliery in Outwood, West Yorkshire, at which he accompanied the rescue teams underground and was on site for six days with the relatives of the seven deceased. This was the verdict of the rather strange former Bake Off star Ruby Tandoh on Paul Hollywoods decision to go with the show when it moves from the BBC1 to C4. After a Labour Party conference speech on energy policy by Richard Marsh in July 1967, Scargill said: I can honestly say that I never heard flannel like we got from the Minister he said that we have nuclear power stations with us, whether we like it or not. Lady Thatchers victories over Mr Scargill in the miners strike and Argentine dictator General Galtieri in the Falklands war were hailed by her supporters as the two key moments of her premiership when they paid tribute in Parliament on Wednesday. An article published in The Times in August 2015 stated that Scargill had spoken to the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union conference in June 2015, and that he was due to appear alongside Jeremy Corbyn at the Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign in September 2015. 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. 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. British trade unionist Arthur Scargill marching with his wife Anne and other miners' wives during a protest in London, UK, 12th August 1984. The power is amazing. The comments below have been moderated in advance. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike. [26], There is a prevailing view that Arthur Scargill, the NUM National President, called the strike. And I got a reply." Many of the details are too complex and arcane to comprehensively explain, let alone understand, though some of what has emerged from all this tussling has been manna from heaven to those sections of the press who would have their readers believe that Scargill's reputation is beyond repair. He had been a Communist and retained strong Marxist views and a penchant for denouncing anyone who disagreed with him as a traitor Scargill had indeed been elected by a vast margin and he set about turning the NUM's once moderate executive into a reliably militant group By adopting a position that no pits should be closed on economic grounds, even if the coal was exhausted more investment would always find more coal, and from his point of view, the losses were irrelevant he made sure confrontation would not be avoided. He claimed that the government had a long-term strategy to destroy the industry by closing unprofitable pits, and that it listed pits it wanted to close each year. Drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions knock on his door, with arms aloft, climbing a to. Those lower down who are suffering Guardian in February 2014 said that Scargill had become recluse. 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