That couldnt be true as she announced after the series ended she was gay. After the miners' strike in 1984, there were accusations that Arthur Scargill had misappropriated National Union of Mineworkers funds and that money which sh. He felt the need to fight for changes in the capitalist society, and vowed that he would work towards making the world more equitable. But apparently not. And then there is the real Arthur Scargill. Scargill's girl to wed pit axeman; Doc Margaret falls for 'enemy'. A smile. 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). "Goodbye to all that? 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. A lot of other people on the National Executive at that time went on and became very respectable Labour MPs in Parliament. 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. [3] The couple had a daughter together, Margaret Scargill, in 1962 who is now a practicing GP. He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School). He called for the cotton mills, steel plants and mines to be re-opened and that under EU rules, the government had not been able to subsidise the coal mines. 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. This was a complete reversal of the policy that was promised by the Labour Government before it was put into office this represents a betrayal of the mining industry. ARE our chief constables going quite potty? Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. 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. [35] Negotiations between Scargill and the NUM took place in France. In 1974, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that led Prime Minister Edward Heath to call a February general election.[13]. [18], Miners were split between those who supported the strike and those who opposed it (see Union of Democratic Mineworkers). It just said: 'Thatcher dead.' 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. The couple plan to marry later this year. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 21 Feb 2012. I cant wait for us to exit the single market as it will mean German cars will be so expensive they wont sell any here and we could then start our own car industry with the chance of making it a success now Red Robbo is so old he cant destroy companies any more. News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. [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. He arrived at the colliery to find he could not get into his office because someone had super-glued the door shut. 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 . Who is Arthur Scargill? Former Scargill loyalist Jimmy Kelly, a miner at the Edlington Main pit near Doncaster in the 1980s, said he was astonished to learn of the attempt to buy the flat. In 1958, he attended the World Federation of Trade Unions youth congress in Prague. 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. We got 111. Princess Royal honours Team GB curling stars and Scottish police chief at Palace of Peter Andre launches scathing attack on Prince Harry as he says Duke of Sussex is 'publicly trashing his Heartbreak for Kate: Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, who dedicated his life to educating on the horrors of Charles's first royal RSVP! Im shocked.. 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. "Destroy everything, and create a 'me-me-me' class. With the promise of at least 5 in cash, its sign reads thus: "We buy your unwanted clothes, shoes, socks, belts, handbags, paired footwear.". He then started working as a coal miner. Of all the people I can think of Scargill, is the least deserving of tenants. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. 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". [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. Hundreds of strikers were arrested, including Scargill and his wife. He stood as an independent communist, as he had never joined the Communist Party formally. Scargills trickery and hypocrisy coupled with the startling revelation that Labours Shadow minister for preventing violence Sarah Champion was arrested and put in a police cell accused of assault after a violent row with her husband back in 2007 and you can see Socialisms mantra is simple: Do as I say not as I do. So that was my initial introduction into socialism and into political militancy. View our online Press Pack. . He lives a normal sort of a life. They said: 'How about 15,000?' He had no means of calling a strike in Yorkshire.[27]. This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 23:47. Anne Scargill (left) and Betty Cook at the National Union of Mineworkers headquarters in Barnsley. ", ITN, he claims, offered Scargill 7,000 for a five-minute interview. 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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. In 2012, the flat was valued at 1,500,000, and had 24/7 access to concierge services. Arthur's dad lived with us as well: there were me, Arthur, Margaret [their daughter] and Arthur's dad. He understood the plight of the workers, and chose to stay and remain a self-appointed representative of the workers. "I never, ever talk about my ex-husband," says Anne Scargill. It was a major political victory for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. And yesterday, do you know what? The comments below have been moderated in advance. 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! Campbell, Adrian, and Malcolm Warner. First, I ring the bell, to no avail, then usea door knocker in the shape of a miner's lamp. I think people would be astounded if they knew that."[42]. 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. They made a final offer of 16,000." Two killed by 'armed' chickens: Men bleed to death after being sliced by knives fixed to roosters at Law student, 26, was told 'you sound like you're feeling a bit sorry for yourself' by nurse before dying, Safety first! "Goodbye to all that? Hero of the working classes, Arthur Scargill, has joined the Conservative Party after they allowed the opening of a new coal mine in Cumbria. Their life sentences were eventually reduced to eight years. 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. He has contested two parliamentary elections. I've had hundreds and hundreds of pounds offered for my story, and I'm not washing my dirty linen in public.". The following year, he also became a member of the Labour Party. "It's so hypocritical it's unreal," he said. He tells me he's writing a book. A PEACOCKING manchild lingering where the money is. 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. I drove the picket bus. Wheat it and weep! In 2014, it was reported that Scargill had become a recluse. ARTHUR SCARGILL has two faces. To his detractors, by contrast, the fact that he understood what was at stake is no excuse for a series of elemental mistakes that sealed his union's fate and marked a huge turning point in postwar history. I'm working on article about the 30th anniversary of the strike, I say. "Leadership in the Miners Union-Scargill, Arthur Rise to Power. Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 19841985 miners' strike. ", "It's Thatcher's legacy, isn't it?" On a nearby mantelpiece is a small pink calendar, filling up with dates: academic seminars, radio shows, outdoor festivals and more. Arthur had told me that under no circumstances was he going to give an interview. [9] This performance strengthened his popularity with the Yorkshire miners. They cut it by 255. 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[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. Arthur Scargill faces 200,000 bill after losing court battle with his old union The former Yorkshire miners' leader Arthur Scargill was facing a bill of more than 200,000 last night. "Yes. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. 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.. Photograph: Don Mcphee for the Guardian. Along with Tony Benn, veteran left-wing MP from the Labour Party, he campaigned to free the two strikers Russell Shankland and Dean Hancock, who were convicted of killing a taxi driver named David Wilkie. 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. It's always those lower down who are suffering. [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]. [38], Film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series. 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'. He has his relatives around him, his two grandsons ". Further afield, amid great stretches of empty space, you find places that seem to be clinging on by their very fingertips, such as the former pit village of Goldthorpe, stranded halfway between Barnsley and Doncaster. a zero-hours contract. "The gentleman was not for turning.". In 2014, it was reported that Scargill had become a recluse. "At least Women Against Pit Closures tried to do something to prevent it happening. Arthur Scargill's net worth estimate is $100,000 - $1M. But so far, Arthur Scargill is conspicuous by his absence. Is it time Harry & Meghan accept Clarkson's apology and move on? What can he tell me about Scargill's everyday life? He's also claimed that "many" people now believe that Scargill has turned out to be as bad as Margaret Thatcher. 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. 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. Some strikers also believed the strike was against the constitution and denounced Scargill. So how is he? 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. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. His eyes have sunk a little into his face; the voice is deeper and huskier than it once was. [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. When remembering this, she brims with the same rage she must have felt at the time. 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 . Wilsher, Peter, Donald Macintyre, and Michael CE Jones, eds. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dear+Arthur+Scargill%2c+before+you+let+your+daughter+marry+my+love-+rat-a060693318. The fight was a political one, as well. He studied at the Worsbrough Dale School, till he was fifteen. 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?] Labours Lord Gilbert hailed Lady Thatchers good fortune in facing Mr Scargill. It is only after I leave the NUM's HQ for the last time that one striking fact hits home. 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. Arthur Scargill, I ask you. 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. 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. 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. [37], The South Wales area leader, Des Dutfield, moved that Scargill should stand down and face re-election, but the motion was defeated. [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. They're all talking about the bedroom tax, and not being able to afford a good meal." That house sits on the edge of Worsbrough, close to the pit village where Scargill was born. We did soup kitchens. 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. They had one daughter named Margaret. . David Wilkie, who died instantly, leaving behind a 2 year old daughter and his pregnant fiancee who gave birth 6 weeks later. As the militant leader of the miners, Arthur Scargill fought Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. Punnies always start Monday with a smile. 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? But he will not be drawn any further. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? 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 lot of conflict followed between the government and Scargill`s union. And when Iput the phone down, I came and sat in the house, and the television was on, and it came on that Margaret Thatcher had died. ", She then shoots me a look. Thats what right-to-buy did for ordinary people. "I am writing a book, but he'snot mentioned in it. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. 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. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. IN Fridays column I was critical of my British Airways flight to New York where both the food and service were poor. His application was refused because the flat in the Barbican Estate's Shakespeare Tower was not Scargill's primary residence. They need this like a hole in the head.. Scargill led the union in the 19841985 miners' strike. 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. So does his son-in-law. [22][23], Many found Scargill inspiring; many others found him frankly scary. having received a 500,000 discount. Does that include him? Shankland's and Hancock's life sentences for murder were reduced to eight years for manslaughter on appeal. "[28] This was in the Prime Minister's rejection of Labour calls for an apology for government actions during the 19841985 miners' strike. Scargill opposed civilian nuclear power and, during the first Wilson ministry, became highly critical of the government's energy policy. 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. They divorced in 2001. 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. 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. He reaches for his phone and shows me what he received. 6 teaches true compassion and empathy. His father was also a loyal member of the Communist Party. Arthur Scargill's life path number is 6 Life Path Number 6 represent 'The Nurturer'. He played a significant role in the unofficial strike of UK miners in 1969. So what is Arthur Scargill's salary per year? The intended title, she and Cook tell me, is Only a Miner's Daughter, and it will tell the story of her entire life, with a seeming focus on the strike. The sneak has tried to pocket a smallfortune while proclaiming to be the great fighter against the evils of capitalism and the elite. 'To say that is in no way to diminish her achievements and accomplishments. Arthur Scargill is a Capricorn and was born in The Year of the Tiger Life. 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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. 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. 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 . We stood and fought against enormous odds, and not just for the pits for our way of life. The man's had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. During this time, he earned the esteem of significant sections of the left and the British working class, who saw him as honest, hard-working and genuinely concerned with their welfare,[12] and he was also respected for improving the administration of the compensation agent's post. [6] In 1970, he was elected a member of the regional committee of the Co-operative Retail Services in Barnsley and a delegate to its national conference. Its energy is that of Mother Gaia. Arthur Scargill was born on 11th January 1938, in Worsbrough Dale, in South Yorkshire, England, into a family of coal miners. 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. "They asked me to relay that to him. 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". Arthur Scargill soon got a response from a representative of The Daily Worker, who persuaded him to join the Young Communist League of Britain. 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? [53], Scargill still occasionally gives interviews and makes appearances. For webmasters |. Every Monday, she says, she helps out a local church project that gives free breakfasts to whoever shows up. Arthur Scargill faces an inquiry by his former union into his bargain purchase of a 2m council flat in one of London's most prestigious developments. Arthur Scargill destroyed many lives with his attitude and his . Darlington, "There is no alternative: Exploring the options in the 1984-5 miners' strike. 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. Mention of him draws a quick response. We were busy. I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. Having been elected president of the NUM in 1981, Scargill held that position for just over 20 years. 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