They divorced in 2001. 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. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike. In 1957, he attended the world youth festival held at Moscow. For reasons that are not entirely clear as he has a home in Yorkshire he has now bought the flat for 1,050,000 (where did he get that money from?) But so far, Arthur Scargill is conspicuous by his absence. 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. Copyright 2023 Farlex, Inc. | And now he's ditched all that. Wilsher, Peter, Donald Macintyre, and Michael CE Jones, eds. 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. Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dies at . [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. [47], In 1996, Scargill founded the Socialist Labour Party after the Labour Party abandoned the original wording of Clause IV advocating the public democratic ownership[48] of key industries and utilities from their constitution. 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. . ", ITN, he claims, offered Scargill 7,000 for a five-minute interview. One of his closest associates is Ken Capstick, 73, who lives 20 minutes' drive from Barnsley in a quiet corner of Wakefield. 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. ", "It's Thatcher's legacy, isn't it?" It just said: 'Thatcher dead.' We stood and fought against enormous odds, and not just for the pits for our way of life. "It's sad to be inthis position. Downstairs in the NUM's waiting room there are flyers and posters advertising other events, complete with long lists of invited speakers. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. Lord Tebbit, one of Lady Thatchers closest allies, said: The trades union generals had brought down Ted Heaths Government. Most of Arthur's money comes from being a politician. He may still lose. 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. Having been elected president of the NUM in 1981, Scargill held that position for just over 20 years. 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. 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. They said: 'How about 15,000?' THE man set to marry the daughter of miners' leader Arthur Scargill was yesterday branded a love cheat - by his own daughter. The 84-year-old British politician has done well thus far! [32] The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. "I've never, ever said owt. 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The NUM's general secretary is 47-year-old Chris Kitchen. They're at it again! It's always those lower down who are suffering. (2004) "Al Richardson (19412003): An Appreciation", David Howell, et al. [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. [52], The Guardian in February 2014 said that Scargill had become a recluse. On his first day, he was horrified to see the working conditions. [18], Miners were split between those who supported the strike and those who opposed it (see Union of Democratic Mineworkers). Here as elsewhere in post-industrial Yorkshire, the surrounding landscape attests to what arrived instead. [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. Coles worker fights a woman allegedly trying to steal groceries, Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions. And did we win that? 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. He felt the need to fight for changes in the capitalist society, and vowed that he would work towards making the world more equitable. Scargill was divorced from his activist wife Anne in 2001. He took a part-time course as well at the University of Leeds. There aretwo security cameras fixed to the front wall, and all the blinds are closed. From an early age, Arthur used to read books such as The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, where he learnt about starvation and injustice as well as courage as well as nobility of the working classes. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.". So our conscience is clear. Its energy is that of Mother Gaia. 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. His father was also a loyal member of the Communist Party. McIlroy, J. Even his own union are up in arms at the purchase. [57] Scargill supported the 2022 United Kingdom railway strike, joining an RMT picket line in Wakefield on 21 June 2022. And Stefni warned Margaret's parents that Mr Logan is a "sly, deceitful toe-rag''. 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. Star Lenny a victim in privacy scandal; OPERATION MOTORMAN: Funnyman one of host of celebs in security breach. He was 17 at the time of the strike, and an active picketer, in Yorkshire and elsewhere. "[28] This was in the Prime Minister's rejection of Labour calls for an apology for government actions during the 19841985 miners' strike. When remembering this, she brims with the same rage she must have felt at the time. They divorced in 2001. Most viewed. The strike ended on 3 March 1985 following an NUM vote to return to work. But his brain is as active as ever. [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. 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. What would have become of our democracy had they succeeded?. 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. 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[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. 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 subsequently decided to move to Sheffield, and said that he had spoken to each member of staff to ask them to move to Sheffield. [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! 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. [8], Scargill was a leader of the unofficial strike in 1969, which began in Yorkshire and spread across the country. 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. 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. 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. Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. 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. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the NUM, at the union's headquarters in Barnsley. Like me you wont have heard of Ms Tandoh since she last appeared in the show a couple of years back and the only reason she would have made any impression was a suggestion she was flirting with Mr Hollywood. 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. . Campbell, Adrian, and Malcolm Warner. a zero-hours contract. 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. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) But an issue like that it wasn't easy to come to a compromise. The power is amazing. 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. He did not. The one who very secretly tried for two decades to buy a council flat in Londons fashionable Barbican so he could pocket a fortune. If you were on the minimum wage it would take 100 years to earn the 1,500,000 you needed to buy that flat. ", R.R. We were busy. And as Iwas in the area, it would be remiss of me not to knock on his door. All rights reserved. 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 miles across broken glass to stop the sell-off of council properties. Arthur Scargill is now 76. All but two of the county's collieries have closed, and in their place are seemingly endless retail parks, the foundations of a local economy in which people work in shops to spend money in other shops. Scargill led the union in the 19841985 miners' strike. "Five years ago, when I first started, if we got 30 or 40, we thought we'd got a lot," she says. Mr Scargill replied simply: 'Scargill Alive! Photograph: Don Mcphee for the Guardian. I think if it had been made public before then there'd have been a huge outcry. 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. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. 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. I hate all women. Scargill opposed civilian nuclear power and, during the first Wilson ministry, became highly critical of the government's energy policy. And then there is the real Arthur Scargill. 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 . of the other candidates claimed that they were given very little time to prepare. 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. For other inquiries, Contact Us. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. "[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. As the militant leader of the miners, Arthur Scargill fought Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 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. 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'. . "But we've had to move to new premises. Does she think she ever will talk about him? It was all or nothing. I don't know how far he's got. [14], The vast majority of head-office staff took redundancy rather than move to Sheffield. Arthur Scargill acquired a lease on the flat around 1982, when he became president of the NUM, as the the union was then based in London, though Scargill soon moved its headquarters to Sheffield . Thats what right-to-buy did for ordinary people. He has contested two parliamentary elections. It is only after I leave the NUM's HQ for the last time that one striking fact hits home. First, I ring the bell, to no avail, then usea door knocker in the shape of a miner's lamp. He is best known for leading the UK miners' strike (1984-85), a major event in the history of the British labour movement. 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. He left school in 1953 at fifteen years old to work as a coal miner at Woolley Colliery, where he worked for nineteen years.[2][3]. 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. He told yesterday how he first met his future mother-in-law, Anne Scargill, five years ago when she was involved in the Women Against Pit Closures protest. After his return to Britain, he joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Their life sentences were eventually reduced to eight years. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 19841985 miners' strike. 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. They cut it by 255. 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. 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. They had one daughter named Margaret. Labours Lord Gilbert hailed Lady Thatchers good fortune in facing Mr Scargill. 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. That's what I believe.". The miners` strike of 1974 eventually brought down the Conservative government of Edward Heath. 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. "The gentleman was not for turning.". The flat on the 25th floor had previously been rented to him as a perk of his job as leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). He stood as an independent communist, as he had never joined the Communist Party formally. Some strikers also believed the strike was against the constitution and denounced Scargill. [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". "Two Kinds of Reform: Left Leadership in the British National Union of Mineworkers and the United Mineworkers of America, 19821990. I cannot find parliamentary language to use to describe Arthur Scargill.. He was defeated on both occasions. 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. His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. That house sits on the edge of Worsbrough, close to the pit village where Scargill was born. In 1974, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that led Prime Minister Edward Heath to call a February general election.[13]. He gained fame for using the tactic to win the Battle of Saltley Gate in 1972, and made it his main tactical device in the 1984 strike. He arrived at the colliery to find he could not get into his office because someone had super-glued the door shut. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. He went on to be elected president of the NUM from. They divorced in 2001. The names of all incoming telephone callers are recorded on a central log. The NUM is not your personal bank account and never will be again. 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. A former Labour Party member, Scargill is now leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), founded by him in 1996. Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who used to be the president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Half our time is spent discussing the strike and its aftermath; for the remainder, the two of them talk about what has happened to the place where they live since then. Those are great saving stories. Milne, Seumas. " [49], After stepping down from leadership of the NUM, Scargill became active in the UK's Stalin Society[50] saying that the "ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin explain the real world". But I can't promise you there'll be any chance of an interview.' Some scholars have concluded that Scargill's decisive tactical error was to substitute his famous flying picket for the holding of a national strike ballot. Though he continued his work as a miner, he also studied various subjects including economics, social history and industrial relations. Published: 23:21 GMT, 11 April 2013 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 12 April 2013. For webmasters |. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. Of all the people I can think of Scargill, is the least deserving of tenants. [51] Scargill criticised Poland's Solidarity calling it an "anti-socialist organisation which desires the overthrow of a socialist state", which Scargill saw as deformed but reformable. [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. "One day last year, I was talking to him on the phone. offers Cook. And I got a reply." 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. 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. 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. A PEACOCKING manchild lingering where the money is. So I knew Arthur didn't know. Punnies always start Monday with a smile. [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. {{ #verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ ^verifyErrors }}Something went wrong. I suggest to this Conference that we have coal mines with us but they did something about this problem: they closed them down. "In the strike, he were never at home We didn't spend much time together that year," she says. Peter, Gibbon. Is it time Harry & Meghan accept Clarkson's apology and move on? Although he never worked at Barrow Colliery in his home village, he was involved in the politics of the branch, where the membership was much more left-wing than in the conservative Woolley Colliery. Another column reader, Sandra from Pinner, North West London, was quoted 767 to renew her car insurance by Direct Line. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the trade union movement. Arthur Scargill, I ask you. Why should the leader of the Socialist Labour Party (a Corbyn ally naturally) be allowed to pocket a million? Anne Scargill (left) and Betty Cook at the National Union of Mineworkers headquarters in Barnsley. Mention of him draws a quick response. They brought into office the Government of Lady Thatcher. [53] He was not attending any of the events to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 strike at the NUM. He played a significant role in the unofficial strike of UK miners in 1969. They lived in the house Scargill grew up in Worsborough, South Yorkshire. The man's had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. Well, he is, indispatches [laughs].". [31] In addition, it was alleged that he had taken 1,000,000 of cash donated by the Soviet Union for the Welsh miners and placed it in a Dublin bank account for the "International Miners' Organisation", where it stayed until a year after the strike had finished. [55], In 2017, Scargill spoke at an event in Cardiff setting out how British manufacturing could be rebuilt after Britain had left the European Union. 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. So they shouldn't think they've scared me. In the 2001 general election, he ran against Peter Mandelson in Hartlepool. 'To say that is in no way to diminish her achievements and accomplishments. The couple plan to marry later this year. having received a 500,000 discount. 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