To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. He also represented the Barnsley Co-op at Cooperative congresses. In May 2009, he was a candidate for the Socialist Labour Party for one of London's seats in the European Parliament. 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. However, by the time he grew up, the family was able to move to a better and more comfortable home. And yesterday, do you know what? He contested twice, in the 1997 general election, as well as the 2001 general election. of the other candidates claimed that they were given very little time to prepare. Milne, Seumas. " 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. His application was refused because the flat in the Barbican Estate's Shakespeare Tower was not Scargill's primary residence. With the promise of at least 5 in cash, its sign reads thus: "We buy your unwanted clothes, shoes, socks, belts, handbags, paired footwear.". His mother, Alice (ne Pickering), was a professional cook. Shankland's and Hancock's life sentences for murder were reduced to eight years for manslaughter on appeal. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". 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. So what is Arthur Scargill's salary per year? 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. 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. 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! "I don't know what a deal would have been," he says. 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. Arthur Scargill destroyed many lives with his attitude and his . And Stefni warned Margaret's parents that Mr Logan is a "sly, deceitful toe-rag''. He was on television all the time: a charismatic character. Had he done the humble thing and walked away with what he were entitled to, his reputation would still be intact.". The militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. 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. Loyal Anne Scargill, 57, has moved out of the couple's luxury pounds 200,000 bungalow. ", ITN, he claims, offered Scargill 7,000 for a five-minute interview. At the top, surrounded by sunbeams, is the single word "socialism": the destination that, some would say, decisively disappeared from view midway through the 1980s. He reaches for his phone and shows me what he received. IN Fridays column I was critical of my British Airways flight to New York where both the food and service were poor. TOY shop in Bromsgrove, Worcs Hoyti Toyti, Beauty salon in Catterick, North Yorks Saving Face, Wool shop in Redcar, North Yorks Wool N Knit Be Nice, Chippie in Bedminster, Bristol Smileys Plaice, Seen on a lorry Cant Move Heaven But Can Move Earth, Mac computer repair shop in Penzance, Cornwall Apple Crumble, On the side of a van in Cam, Gloucs Copse And Loggers. Having been elected president of the NUM in 1981, Scargill held that position for just over 20 years. The secretary at this time was a very good friend of mine called Jimmy Reid, and we're still close friends. [32] The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. "I've never, ever said owt. He lost on both occasions, winning 2.4% of the vote in Hartlepool at the 2001 general election. Why should the leader of the Socialist Labour Party (a Corbyn ally naturally) be allowed to pocket a million? 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[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. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. So they shouldn't think they've scared me. Photograph: Don Mcphee for the Guardian. I've had hundreds and hundreds of pounds offered for my story, and I'm not washing my dirty linen in public.". He felt the need to fight for changes in the capitalist society, and vowed that he would work towards making the world more equitable. [22][23], Many found Scargill inspiring; many others found him frankly scary. In 1961, Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee. They had one daughter named Margaret. Scargill must be very proud that his campaigning had the convictions downgraded to manslaughter and both men released from prison in November 1989. . And now he's ditched all that. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. The strike ended on 3 March 1985 following an NUM vote to return to work. HAVING just been charged 349.20 to replace a rear brake light unit on my Mercedes ML 250. So does his son-in-law. The miners` strike of 1974 eventually brought down the Conservative government of Edward Heath. "It's sad to be inthis position. 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. A lot of other people on the National Executive at that time went on and became very respectable Labour MPs in Parliament. 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"And I tell you summat: when I come out of there, I thought to myself, 'Right they can't do owt any worse to me now. Angry Stefni Logan revealed that her father James had dated his estranged wife Heather while romancing Dr Margaret Scargill. In 2016 it was reported that the grandfather of two was living in a three-bedroom detached country house in Yorkshire owned by his. 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. I have since received an email from Alex Cruz, the chief executive and chairman of BA, apologising for my experience. In Grimethorpe, 100% of the miners were on strike. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the NUM, at the union's headquarters in Barnsley. They came back to me, and said: 'We'll up it to 10,000.' A motion from the Kent area was passed by the NUM conference to move the head office to a coalfield. Capstick a genial, soft-spoken man, whose disposition rather belies the rock-solid certainties of his politics talks to me for well over two hours. It's too soon to say.". He listens to all this with an air of mild amusement. His father`s name was Harold and his mother`s name was Alice. He's also claimed that "many" people now believe that Scargill has turned out to be as bad as Margaret Thatcher. His last formal tussle with Scargill came on 13 February, when Scargill took four matters to an Employment Appeal Tribunal, and was granted a future hearing. 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. 6 teaches true compassion and empathy. 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? I had a job at the Co-op. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. 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! [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. Mr Capstick told ITV News: Id been talking to Arthur some ten minutes earlier so I sent him a text message, a very short one, just said Thatcher dead. On the appointment of Ian MacGregor as head of the NCB in 1983, Scargill stated, "The policies of this government are clear to destroy the coal industry and the NUM". He became a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee, in 1961. He also had an important role in the `Battle of Saltley Gate, that closed Birmingham`s Saltley coke depot. [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! 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. It's always those lower down who are suffering. He stood as an independent communist, as he had never joined the Communist Party formally. "Well, you've knocked on my door," he says. [38], Film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series. They've made me worse.'". However, in 1979, the Conservatives were able to win again under Margaret Thatcher, and destroy the majority of the Labour Party. What I infer from that, I tell him, is that he believes the secret services deliberately turned a blind eye to some aspects of Scargill's life. 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. He tells me he's writing a book. [29], In 1998, Scargill and his wife, Anne, separated.[30]. In 1958, he attended the World Federation of Trade Unions youth congress in Prague. 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So that was my initial introduction into socialism and into political militancy. 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. 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. Labours Lord Gilbert hailed Lady Thatchers good fortune in facing Mr Scargill. 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. . Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. Some strikers also believed the strike was against the constitution and denounced Scargill. 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. He can either cower down and take his beating, or he can stand and fight, and hope to maybe land a few punches. [60][61], London Assembly elections (entire London city), "Scargill" redirects here. [56], In July 2021 he spoke at the Rebel Town Festival in Jarrow. "It's so hypocritical it's unreal," he said. They're at it again! David Wilkie, who died instantly, leaving behind a 2 year old daughter and his pregnant fiancee who gave birth 6 weeks later. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike. They brought into office the Government of Lady Thatcher. The comments below have been moderated in advance. His father was also a loyal member of the Communist Party. Soon, he also made his first attempt to win political office in a local council election, though he was defeated. 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. [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. The Enemy Within", Verso 2014. [9][11], A few months later, the president of the Yorkshire NUM died unexpectedly, and Scargill won the election for his replacement; the two posts were then combined and he held them until 1981. One of the main planks of his platform was to give more power to union conferences than to executive meetings, on the grounds that the former were more democratic. 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. They need this like a hole in the head', They expected, particularly Master Scargill, to bring down her Government, too. He is 84 years old and is a Capricorn. He went on to be elected president of the NUM from. 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.. The political power of the NUM and of most British trade unions was severely reduced. In 2014, it was reported that Scargill had become a recluse. "How can you come to a compromise so you, say, agree to close half the pits that were threatened? Another column reader, Sandra from Pinner, North West London, was quoted 767 to renew her car insurance by Direct Line. SCARGILL'S GIRL TO WED MAN WHO SHUT LAST PIT; Mum-in-law's office attack. It began in Yorkshire, and eventually spread to the rest of the country. Baroness Thatcher was very lucky,' he said. On a nearby mantelpiece is a small pink calendar, filling up with dates: academic seminars, radio shows, outdoor festivals and more. But so far, Arthur Scargill is conspicuous by his absence. McIlroy, J. Let them eat cake! What can he tell me about Scargill's everyday life? He wouldn't say another word. Darlington, "There is no alternative: Exploring the options in the 1984-5 miners' strike. Arthur Scargill, I ask you. Scargill and his wife Anne, herself a miner's daughter and an active organizer of miners' groups, had one daughter, Margaret. [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. [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. They lived in the house Scargill grew up in Worsborough, South Yorkshire. 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. 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 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. It just said: 'Thatcher dead.' Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. 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). 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. View our online Press Pack. 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. 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. "The gentleman was not for turning.". Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. [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]. [52], The Guardian in February 2014 said that Scargill had become a recluse. "I would have thought that someone who was public enemy number one, with MI5 tapping his calls and following him, and everything else they were allegedly doing to him I'm very surprised he managed to live the life hedid and get away with what he did without being pulled up," he says. There's more to this new Arthur Scargill chic than mere fashion nostalgia. So our conscience is clear. "Leadership in the Miners Union-Scargill, Arthur Rise to Power. 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. 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. Feedback | This eventually led to the strike of 1984, when the government announced that they intend to close 20 coal mines. 'No.' It's Mr (coffee) Bean! "He's estranged from his ex-wife. A PEACOCKING manchild lingering where the money is. The NUM says the money is being used to defend what remains of the coal industry and help both its members and former miners. His application was blocked at the time as it was not his primary residence. SMS: Ken Capstick, treasurer of the Socialist Labour Party which Arthur Scargill leads, sent the former union boss a text message reading: 'Thatcher Dead'. Mr Logan, 42, is now business manager at the Ashville Medical Centre, in Barnsley, where Dr Scargill works as a GP. He keeps a home close to the pit village where he was born, and is said to be close to Nell Myers, the American-born woman who was the NUM's national press officer during the strike, and continues to assist Scargill in his political and media dealings. For webmasters |. But his victory is in the struggle itself. Some historians have provided interpretations and explanations of the defeat. Arthur Scargill's life path number is 6 Life Path Number 6 represent 'The Nurturer'. 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. Published: 23:21 GMT, 11 April 2013 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 12 April 2013. ", 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! Who is Arthur Scargill? "One day last year, I was talking to him on the phone. Former miners' leader Arthur Scargill loses his High Court fight to have the NUM continue to meet the costs of his London flat for his lifetime. But I can't promise you there'll be any chance of an interview.' 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. . Some of the cash was provided by his daughter Dr Margaret Scargill. Instead she went on aspokesmansaid.com and Axa covered her for 343, a saving of 424. 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. We now have a situation where the government and the establishment have a funeral on their hands which they wish they didnt have. I cannot find parliamentary language to use to describe Arthur Scargill.. Arthur Scargill soon got a response from a representative of The Daily Worker, who persuaded him to join the Young Communist League of Britain. To his remaining allies, this fact confirms that his reputation still burns bright: Scargill was right, they say, and this verdict extends beyond the fate of the British coal industry, to every key aspect of his leadership of the NUM. And then there is the real Arthur Scargill. For other uses, see, Early political and trade union activities. "There's definitely a disproportionate amount of time and money being spent fighting Arthur Scargill rather than looking after the members and protecting the union," he tells me. Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. At the top, surrounded by sunbeams, is the single word "socialism": the destination that, some would say, decisively disappeared from view midway through the 1980s. "I am writing a book, but he'snot mentioned in it. We did soup kitchens. 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