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. The strike became a symbolic struggle, as the NUM was one of the strongest unions in the country, viewed by many, including Conservatives in power, as having brought down the Heath government in the union's 1974 strike. Back in 1993 he first tried to acquire the flat under Margaret Thatchers right-to-buy scheme. Terms of use | 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. The media characterised the strike as "Scargill's strike" and his critics accused him of looking for an excuse for industrial action since becoming union president. How will she write a book like that while somehow keeping him out of the story? He very, very rarely came home, 'cos he was always in the offices or organising things. 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. "[44] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. One by one, he bats away the standard criticisms of Scargill's leadership of the strike: that it was ill-advised to commence the strike in the spring, that he should have held a national ballot ("The miners weren't calling for a ballot the people who were calling for a ballot were our enemies"), and that in returning to work without an agreement, the miners were left in an impossible position. He belonged to a poor family, who lived in a house with neither electricity nor plumbing. "Analysing the British miners' strike of 19845.". "It's sad to be inthis position. They divorced in 2001. 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? Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. "I've never, ever said owt. If BA is ever to going to boast that its the Worlds Favourite Airline again it will have to hire staff who dont look at passengers as getting in the way of their decent nights sleep. Cabinet papers released earlier this year proved that when, at the start of the strike, Scargill claimed that there were secret plans to shut around 70 pits in the face of endless official denials, he was unquestionably correct. Scargill admitted there was 'bad blood' between him and the NUM general secretary Chris Kitchen, who said, "I honestly do believe that Arthur, in his own world, believes that the NUM is here to afford him the lifestyle that he's become accustomed to. Rivals: Arthur Scargill (left), the militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, was the Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher's (right) most bitter enemy during the miners' strike of 1984. Or are the Scargills effectively hoping to make a quick return by flogging the joint immediately and trousering 1million tax free? Milne, Seumas. " "Destroy everything, and create a 'me-me-me' class. He was defeated on both occasions. 21 Feb 2012. Not very often the CEO of such a large company would admit there was work to be done and it means my gripe must be mirrored in their customer research. [38], Film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. 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. [58][59] Scargill's appearance on the picket line was alluded to by Prime Minister Boris Johnson the next day at Prime Minister's Questions, accusing the Labour Party of "literally holding hands with Arthur Scargill". His application was blocked at the time as it was not his primary residence. [18], Miners were split between those who supported the strike and those who opposed it (see Union of Democratic Mineworkers). DESPITE all the weeping and wailing about Sports Direct, a little known fact is that Karen Byers, the head of ops and credited by founder Mike Ashley as the brains behind the company, started with the firm 25 years ago on. His eyes have sunk a little into his face; the voice is deeper and huskier than it once was. The fight was a political one, as well. He was on television all the time: a charismatic character. Wilsher, Peter, Donald Macintyre, and Michael CE Jones, eds. Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. Like Anne Scargill and Betty Cook, Capstick will be appearing at this year's commemorative events, across Yorkshire and elsewhere. [41], In 1993, Scargill tried to use Thatcher's flagship Right to Buy scheme to buy a flat on the Barbican estate in central London. It's the last place Ivisit in Yorkshire before I turn the car round and head south: a low, long, stone-clad cottage only 50 or so yards from the M1, with a silver 4x4 parked outside, and a modest set of gates. Instead she went on aspokesmansaid.com and Axa covered her for 343, a saving of 424. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike. ", She then shoots me a look. Arthur Scargill is a Capricorn and was born in The Year of the Tiger Life. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. 6 teaches true compassion and empathy. ", "And that," says Capstick, "was the only thing he said about Thatcher. . But his daughter visits him regularly. 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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. 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. Meryl Streep is the invented wife of Arthur Scargill who believes his commitment to the miner's rights is straining their marriage and taking a toll on their daughter. 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. Darlington, "There is no alternative: Exploring the options in the 1984-5 miners' strike. a zero-hours contract. Before I set off for Yorkshire, I email her to request an interview with him, citing the fact that my own grandfather was a coalminer and union activist, and many of my close relatives were actively involved in the strike. He also became known in the 1972 strike, where he was the spokesman for the Yorkshire miners. The 84-year-old British politician has done well thus far! I think people would be astounded if they knew that."[42]. The militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. 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. 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. In the 1997 general election, he ran against Alan Howarth, a defector from the Conservative Party to Labour, who had been given the safe seat of Newport East to contest. "The gentleman was not for turning.". Hero of the working classes, Arthur Scargill, has joined the Conservative Party after they allowed the opening of a new coal mine in Cumbria. Wheat it and weep! His policy alienated most of the Nottinghamshire miners, undermined his position with the leaders of the trade union movement, hurt the union's reputation in British public opinion, and led to violence along the picket line. In the 1981 election for NUM president, Scargill secured around 70% of the vote. Coles worker fights a woman allegedly trying to steal groceries, Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions. In 1974, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that led Prime Minister Edward Heath to call a February general election.[13]. Was it an investment by her so she cleans up when he dies? This was denied by the government at the time, although papers released in 2014 under the thirty-year rule suggest that Scargill was right. He went on to be elected president of the NUM from. [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. The values are responsibility, family, long-term goals. "Don't you think I've done enough without him?". He did not. They need this like a hole in the head', They expected, particularly Master Scargill, to bring down her Government, too. 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. "Goodbye to all that? I said: 'I'll pass it on. Robert Taylor depicts Scargill as an 'industrial Napoleon' who called a strike 'at the wrong time' on the 'wrong issue', and adopted strategies and tactics that were 'impossibilist', with 'an inflexible list of extravagant non-negotiable demands' that amounted to 'reckless adventurism' that was 'a dangerous, self-defeating delusion'. I received one almost instantly saying Scargill alive! and hes very much alive. Arthur Scargill at a mass rally in 1984, during his time as NUM leader (PA) Margaret Thatcher: . So our conscience is clear. [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. 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. Arthur Scargill, the union boss who led the 1984 miner's strike, reacted to the death of Margaret Thatcher by pointing out he was still alive, it has emerged. 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. Mr Logan, 42, is now business manager at the Ashville Medical Centre, in Barnsley, where Dr Scargill works as a GP. Let them eat cake! Soon, he also made his first attempt to win political office in a local council election, though he was defeated. His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. For his three-year contract his pay has gone up from 300,000 at the BBC to 1.2million at C4 plus the ability to do more commercial deals than would have been possible at the Corporation. 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. Every Monday, she says, she helps out a local church project that gives free breakfasts to whoever shows up. Loyal Anne Scargill, 57, has moved out of the couple's luxury pounds 200,000 bungalow. 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. [37] Scargill reached an agreement to repay money to the NUM shortly after this. IN Fridays column I was critical of my British Airways flight to New York where both the food and service were poor. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. Scargill joined the Labour Party in 1962. [54] He gave a rare television interview to ITV News at that 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. It was all or nothing. He understood the plight of the workers, and chose to stay and remain a self-appointed representative of the workers. But I can't promise you there'll be any chance of an interview.' . It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the trade union movement. 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. His daughter is in leg braces and takes tenuous steps into parliament, while members shake her hand . They brought down Jim Callaghans Government. 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? Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the NUM, at the union's headquarters in Barnsley. In 1961, Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee. . And with that, not for the first time, Arthur Scargill retreats, inside. Mention of him draws a quick response. 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 wouldn't say another word. 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. The results are then fact checked and confirmed by our staff. Most of Arthur's money comes from being a politician. Campbell, Adrian, and Malcolm Warner. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. In 1964, he was also elected representative to the Yorkshire area meetings. In Grimethorpe, 100% of the miners were on strike. If you're out for a wage increase, you can cut a deal. The daughter of National Union of Mineworkers' president Arthur Scargill is to marry the man who helped close down the last pit in the NUM's South Yorkshire heartland, it was disclosed. Just to hammer the point home, it was in block capitals: "SCARGILL ALIVE! Some historians have provided interpretations and explanations of the defeat. 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Its main street leads to a huge expanse of rubble and weeds; on the way there, you pass a branch of a business called The Recycle Shop. 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. [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]. The judge, Sir SydneyTempleman held that it was unfair that Scargill was on the appeal panel in the NUM for journalists being disciplined for appearing as witnesses against a libel action by Scargill himself. They've made me worse.'". 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?] The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. They divorced in 2001. We did soup kitchens. Herein, she says, lies a direct link to what she did three decades ago. 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. Mr Scargill replied simply: 'Scargill Alive! 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. His first point was that he is not an accountant (I got that wrong) but an engineer by training and that he has worked in the airline industry all his life. This eventually led to the strike of 1984, when the government announced that they intend to close 20 coal mines. ARTHUR SCARGILL has two faces. 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. I drove the picket bus. I hate all women. 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. But apparently not. That's what I believe.". He arrived at the colliery to find he could not get into his office because someone had super-glued the door shut. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. Published: 23:21 GMT, 11 April 2013 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 12 April 2013. Scargill remains its leader, which may account for its lamentably low profile; after all, if your figurehead is also a media recluse, the world may not be yours for the taking. Dr Margaret Scargill has announced her plans to marry former Grimethorpe Colliery under-manager James Logan. I have since received an email from Alex Cruz, the chief executive and chairman of BA, apologising for my experience. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/arthur-scargill-50638.php. "Well, you've knocked on my door," he says. There aretwo security cameras fixed to the front wall, and all the blinds are closed. Arthur Scargill is being investigated by his former unionover the purchase of one of his properties Sources at the development in the Barbican say Mr Scargill is rarely seen at the 2million. You've been found out. They had one daughter named Margaret. That couldnt be true as she announced after the series ended she was gay. "He's. The NUM says the money is being used to defend what remains of the coal industry and help both its members and former miners. 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. The man's had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. I suggest to this Conference that we have coal mines with us but they did something about this problem: they closed them down. Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who used to be the president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). THE man set to marry the daughter of miners' leader Arthur Scargill was yesterday branded a love cheat - by his own daughter. ", Old Labour party constiturion, Clause 4 part IV, Yorkshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers, "Arthur Scargill joins Battle of Saltley Gate 40th anniversary celebration", "The Nottinghamshire Miners, The Union of Democratic Mineworkers and the 198485 Miners' Strike: Scabs or Scapegoats? ', Mr Scargill replied simply: Scargill Alive!. And this is why. Scargill was involved in a High Court case in 1978 that set a precedent in UK labour law, known as Roebuck v NUM (Yorkshire Area) No 2. Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. 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 felt that the Labour Party had betrayed the basic principles of the party`s constitution. [57] Scargill supported the 2022 United Kingdom railway strike, joining an RMT picket line in Wakefield on 21 June 2022. A lot of conflict followed between the government and Scargill`s union. 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". Those who walk a Life Path with Number 6 gift the world with unconditional love, healing and nurturing. Advertisement Further Reading on Arthur Scargill The best work on Scargill was Michael Crick, Scargill and the Miners (1985). Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? 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. Self defense expert shares live-saving hacks for evading ALL kinds of attacks - from cutting Do not sell or share my personal information. One of his closest associates is Ken Capstick, 73, who lives 20 minutes' drive from Barnsley in a quiet corner of Wakefield. The daughter of National Union of Mineworkers' president Arthur Scargill is to marry the man who helped close down the last pit in the NUM's South Yorkshire heartland, it was disclosed yesterday. "I shall never, ever forgive the police for doing that to me," she says. The miners` strike of 1974 eventually brought down the Conservative government of Edward Heath. Scargill must be very proud that his campaigning had the convictions downgraded to manslaughter and both men released from prison in November 1989. . Punnies always start Monday with a smile. For other uses, see, Early political and trade union activities. Scargill's girl to wed pit axeman; Doc Margaret falls for 'enemy'. He is 84 years old and is a Capricorn. 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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. The strike became a symbolic struggle, as the NUM was one of the strongest unions in the country, viewed by many, including Conservatives in power, as having brought down the Heath government in the union's 1974 strike. Back in 1993 he first tried to acquire the flat under Margaret Thatchers right-to-buy scheme. Terms of use |
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. The media characterised the strike as "Scargill's strike" and his critics accused him of looking for an excuse for industrial action since becoming union president. How will she write a book like that while somehow keeping him out of the story? He very, very rarely came home, 'cos he was always in the offices or organising things. 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. "[44] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. One by one, he bats away the standard criticisms of Scargill's leadership of the strike: that it was ill-advised to commence the strike in the spring, that he should have held a national ballot ("The miners weren't calling for a ballot the people who were calling for a ballot were our enemies"), and that in returning to work without an agreement, the miners were left in an impossible position. He belonged to a poor family, who lived in a house with neither electricity nor plumbing. "Analysing the British miners' strike of 19845.". "It's sad to be inthis position. They divorced in 2001. 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? Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. "I've never, ever said owt. If BA is ever to going to boast that its the Worlds Favourite Airline again it will have to hire staff who dont look at passengers as getting in the way of their decent nights sleep. Cabinet papers released earlier this year proved that when, at the start of the strike, Scargill claimed that there were secret plans to shut around 70 pits in the face of endless official denials, he was unquestionably correct. Scargill admitted there was 'bad blood' between him and the NUM general secretary Chris Kitchen, who said, "I honestly do believe that Arthur, in his own world, believes that the NUM is here to afford him the lifestyle that he's become accustomed to. Rivals: Arthur Scargill (left), the militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, was the Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher's (right) most bitter enemy during the miners' strike of 1984. Or are the Scargills effectively hoping to make a quick return by flogging the joint immediately and trousering 1million tax free? Milne, Seumas. " "Destroy everything, and create a 'me-me-me' class. He was defeated on both occasions. 21 Feb 2012. Not very often the CEO of such a large company would admit there was work to be done and it means my gripe must be mirrored in their customer research. [38], Film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. 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. [58][59] Scargill's appearance on the picket line was alluded to by Prime Minister Boris Johnson the next day at Prime Minister's Questions, accusing the Labour Party of "literally holding hands with Arthur Scargill". His application was blocked at the time as it was not his primary residence. [18], Miners were split between those who supported the strike and those who opposed it (see Union of Democratic Mineworkers). DESPITE all the weeping and wailing about Sports Direct, a little known fact is that Karen Byers, the head of ops and credited by founder Mike Ashley as the brains behind the company, started with the firm 25 years ago on. His eyes have sunk a little into his face; the voice is deeper and huskier than it once was. The fight was a political one, as well. He was on television all the time: a charismatic character. Wilsher, Peter, Donald Macintyre, and Michael CE Jones, eds. Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. Like Anne Scargill and Betty Cook, Capstick will be appearing at this year's commemorative events, across Yorkshire and elsewhere. [41], In 1993, Scargill tried to use Thatcher's flagship Right to Buy scheme to buy a flat on the Barbican estate in central London. It's the last place Ivisit in Yorkshire before I turn the car round and head south: a low, long, stone-clad cottage only 50 or so yards from the M1, with a silver 4x4 parked outside, and a modest set of gates. Instead she went on aspokesmansaid.com and Axa covered her for 343, a saving of 424. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike. ", She then shoots me a look. Arthur Scargill is a Capricorn and was born in The Year of the Tiger Life. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. 6 teaches true compassion and empathy. ", "And that," says Capstick, "was the only thing he said about Thatcher. . But his daughter visits him regularly. 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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. 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. Meryl Streep is the invented wife of Arthur Scargill who believes his commitment to the miner's rights is straining their marriage and taking a toll on their daughter. 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. Darlington, "There is no alternative: Exploring the options in the 1984-5 miners' strike. a zero-hours contract. Before I set off for Yorkshire, I email her to request an interview with him, citing the fact that my own grandfather was a coalminer and union activist, and many of my close relatives were actively involved in the strike. He also became known in the 1972 strike, where he was the spokesman for the Yorkshire miners. The 84-year-old British politician has done well thus far! I think people would be astounded if they knew that."[42]. The militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. 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. 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. In the 1997 general election, he ran against Alan Howarth, a defector from the Conservative Party to Labour, who had been given the safe seat of Newport East to contest. "The gentleman was not for turning.". Hero of the working classes, Arthur Scargill, has joined the Conservative Party after they allowed the opening of a new coal mine in Cumbria. Wheat it and weep! His policy alienated most of the Nottinghamshire miners, undermined his position with the leaders of the trade union movement, hurt the union's reputation in British public opinion, and led to violence along the picket line. In the 1981 election for NUM president, Scargill secured around 70% of the vote. Coles worker fights a woman allegedly trying to steal groceries, Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions. In 1974, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that led Prime Minister Edward Heath to call a February general election.[13]. Was it an investment by her so she cleans up when he dies? This was denied by the government at the time, although papers released in 2014 under the thirty-year rule suggest that Scargill was right. He went on to be elected president of the NUM from. [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. The values are responsibility, family, long-term goals. "Don't you think I've done enough without him?". He did not. They need this like a hole in the head', They expected, particularly Master Scargill, to bring down her Government, too. 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. "Goodbye to all that? I said: 'I'll pass it on. Robert Taylor depicts Scargill as an 'industrial Napoleon' who called a strike 'at the wrong time' on the 'wrong issue', and adopted strategies and tactics that were 'impossibilist', with 'an inflexible list of extravagant non-negotiable demands' that amounted to 'reckless adventurism' that was 'a dangerous, self-defeating delusion'. I received one almost instantly saying Scargill alive! and hes very much alive. Arthur Scargill at a mass rally in 1984, during his time as NUM leader (PA) Margaret Thatcher: . So our conscience is clear. [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. 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. Arthur Scargill, the union boss who led the 1984 miner's strike, reacted to the death of Margaret Thatcher by pointing out he was still alive, it has emerged. 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. Mr Logan, 42, is now business manager at the Ashville Medical Centre, in Barnsley, where Dr Scargill works as a GP. Let them eat cake! Soon, he also made his first attempt to win political office in a local council election, though he was defeated. His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. For his three-year contract his pay has gone up from 300,000 at the BBC to 1.2million at C4 plus the ability to do more commercial deals than would have been possible at the Corporation. 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. Every Monday, she says, she helps out a local church project that gives free breakfasts to whoever shows up. Loyal Anne Scargill, 57, has moved out of the couple's luxury pounds 200,000 bungalow. 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. [37] Scargill reached an agreement to repay money to the NUM shortly after this. IN Fridays column I was critical of my British Airways flight to New York where both the food and service were poor. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. Scargill joined the Labour Party in 1962. [54] He gave a rare television interview to ITV News at that 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. It was all or nothing. He understood the plight of the workers, and chose to stay and remain a self-appointed representative of the workers. But I can't promise you there'll be any chance of an interview.' . It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the trade union movement. 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. His daughter is in leg braces and takes tenuous steps into parliament, while members shake her hand . They brought down Jim Callaghans Government. 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? Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the NUM, at the union's headquarters in Barnsley. In 1961, Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee. . And with that, not for the first time, Arthur Scargill retreats, inside. Mention of him draws a quick response. 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 wouldn't say another word. 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. The results are then fact checked and confirmed by our staff. Most of Arthur's money comes from being a politician. Campbell, Adrian, and Malcolm Warner. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. In 1964, he was also elected representative to the Yorkshire area meetings. In Grimethorpe, 100% of the miners were on strike. If you're out for a wage increase, you can cut a deal. The daughter of National Union of Mineworkers' president Arthur Scargill is to marry the man who helped close down the last pit in the NUM's South Yorkshire heartland, it was disclosed. Just to hammer the point home, it was in block capitals: "SCARGILL ALIVE! Some historians have provided interpretations and explanations of the defeat. 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Its main street leads to a huge expanse of rubble and weeds; on the way there, you pass a branch of a business called The Recycle Shop. 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. [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]. The judge, Sir SydneyTempleman held that it was unfair that Scargill was on the appeal panel in the NUM for journalists being disciplined for appearing as witnesses against a libel action by Scargill himself. They've made me worse.'". 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?] The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. They divorced in 2001. We did soup kitchens. Herein, she says, lies a direct link to what she did three decades ago. 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. Mr Scargill replied simply: 'Scargill Alive! 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. His first point was that he is not an accountant (I got that wrong) but an engineer by training and that he has worked in the airline industry all his life. This eventually led to the strike of 1984, when the government announced that they intend to close 20 coal mines. ARTHUR SCARGILL has two faces. 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. I drove the picket bus. I hate all women. 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. But apparently not. That's what I believe.". He arrived at the colliery to find he could not get into his office because someone had super-glued the door shut. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. Published: 23:21 GMT, 11 April 2013 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 12 April 2013. Scargill remains its leader, which may account for its lamentably low profile; after all, if your figurehead is also a media recluse, the world may not be yours for the taking. Dr Margaret Scargill has announced her plans to marry former Grimethorpe Colliery under-manager James Logan. I have since received an email from Alex Cruz, the chief executive and chairman of BA, apologising for my experience. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/arthur-scargill-50638.php. "Well, you've knocked on my door," he says. There aretwo security cameras fixed to the front wall, and all the blinds are closed. Arthur Scargill is being investigated by his former unionover the purchase of one of his properties Sources at the development in the Barbican say Mr Scargill is rarely seen at the 2million. You've been found out. They had one daughter named Margaret. That couldnt be true as she announced after the series ended she was gay. "He's. The NUM says the money is being used to defend what remains of the coal industry and help both its members and former miners. 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. The man's had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. I suggest to this Conference that we have coal mines with us but they did something about this problem: they closed them down. Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who used to be the president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). THE man set to marry the daughter of miners' leader Arthur Scargill was yesterday branded a love cheat - by his own daughter. ", Old Labour party constiturion, Clause 4 part IV, Yorkshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers, "Arthur Scargill joins Battle of Saltley Gate 40th anniversary celebration", "The Nottinghamshire Miners, The Union of Democratic Mineworkers and the 198485 Miners' Strike: Scabs or Scapegoats? ', Mr Scargill replied simply: Scargill Alive!. And this is why. Scargill was involved in a High Court case in 1978 that set a precedent in UK labour law, known as Roebuck v NUM (Yorkshire Area) No 2. Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. 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 felt that the Labour Party had betrayed the basic principles of the party`s constitution. [57] Scargill supported the 2022 United Kingdom railway strike, joining an RMT picket line in Wakefield on 21 June 2022. A lot of conflict followed between the government and Scargill`s union. 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". Those who walk a Life Path with Number 6 gift the world with unconditional love, healing and nurturing. Advertisement Further Reading on Arthur Scargill The best work on Scargill was Michael Crick, Scargill and the Miners (1985). Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? 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. Self defense expert shares live-saving hacks for evading ALL kinds of attacks - from cutting Do not sell or share my personal information. One of his closest associates is Ken Capstick, 73, who lives 20 minutes' drive from Barnsley in a quiet corner of Wakefield. The daughter of National Union of Mineworkers' president Arthur Scargill is to marry the man who helped close down the last pit in the NUM's South Yorkshire heartland, it was disclosed yesterday. "I shall never, ever forgive the police for doing that to me," she says. The miners` strike of 1974 eventually brought down the Conservative government of Edward Heath. Scargill must be very proud that his campaigning had the convictions downgraded to manslaughter and both men released from prison in November 1989. . Punnies always start Monday with a smile. For other uses, see, Early political and trade union activities. Scargill's girl to wed pit axeman; Doc Margaret falls for 'enemy'. He is 84 years old and is a Capricorn. 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