"Goodbye to all that? Chris Kitchen said: "I would say it's time to walk away, Mr Scargill. MINERS' leader Arthur Scargill has left his wife after 37 years, it was revealed last night. [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. And with that, not for the first time, Arthur Scargill retreats, inside. 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. He had been a Communist and retained strong Marxist views and a penchant for denouncing anyone who disagreed with him as a traitor Scargill had indeed been elected by a vast margin and he set about turning the NUM's once moderate executive into a reliably militant group By adopting a position that no pits should be closed on economic grounds, even if the coal was exhausted more investment would always find more coal, and from his point of view, the losses were irrelevant he made sure confrontation would not be avoided. He reaches for his phone and shows me what he received. 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The Yorkshire native is the son of a miner, who. It was all or nothing. "[40] Scargill complained to the Advertising Standards Authority who criticised the advertisement as "highly distasteful". 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. He belonged to a poor family, who lived in a house with neither electricity nor plumbing. He stood as an independent communist, as he had never joined the Communist Party formally. "How can you come to a compromise so you, say, agree to close half the pits that were threatened? Princess of Wales recycles 1,600 orange Gabriella Hearst top and skirt and 349 Adorable moment the Princess of Wales and a little girl dressed as Snow White play with some sand during a No rest for Anne! He studied security videotapes and saw Mrs Scargill sneaking along a corridor with a tube of glue in her hands. Its the next paragraph I found most interesting. Several dispirited strikers decided to return to work after around a year, and the strike ended in a failure. Soon, he also made his first attempt to win political office in a local council election, though he was defeated. On the first step, it says "nationalisation"; after that comes "the five-day week", "social security", "family allowances", "health and peace", and "prosperity and happiness". We were busy. They've made me worse.'". [26], There is a prevailing view that Arthur Scargill, the NUM National President, called the strike. They still pay 3,500 a year towards the upkeep of his Yorkshire home as they believed it was his main home. This was the verdict of the rather strange former Bake Off star Ruby Tandoh on Paul Hollywoods decision to go with the show when it moves from the BBC1 to C4. There, he met Russian leaders such as Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. 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. 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. I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. I have since received an email from Alex Cruz, the chief executive and chairman of BA, apologising for my experience. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. 'We now have a situation where the government and the establishment have a funeral on their hands which they wish they didnt have. 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. They divorced in 2001. [33], In July 1990, the NUM executive voted unanimously to sue Scargill and general secretary Peter Heathfield. But an issue like that it wasn't easy to come to a compromise. [53] He was not attending any of the events to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 strike at the NUM. 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. 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?) He then started working as a coal miner. 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. [22][23], Many found Scargill inspiring; many others found him frankly scary. 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. Capstick also reiterates something he has said in the past: that somehow, for all that the miners lost the strike, "the victory was in the struggle itself". Scargill, along with veteran left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn, campaigned to free strikers Russell Shankland and Dean Hancock from prison. . 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. In 1957, he attended the world youth festival held at Moscow. 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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. 6 teaches true compassion and empathy. Was it an investment by her so she cleans up when he dies? By Tom Whitehead and Tomwhitehead. As the militant leader of the miners, Arthur Scargill fought Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. His father, Harold, was a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. [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. 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. Is it time Harry & Meghan accept Clarkson's apology and move on? I've had hundreds and hundreds of pounds offered for my story, and I'm not washing my dirty linen in public.". "In the strike, he were never at home We didn't spend much time together that year," she says. 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. What would have become of our democracy had they succeeded?. Im shocked.. They're all talking about the bedroom tax, and not being able to afford a good meal." Scargill never balloted NUM members for a strike; this was seen as an erosion of democracy within the union, but the role of ballots in decision-making had been made very unclear after previous leader, Joe Gormley, had ignored two ballots over wage reforms, and his decisions had been upheld after appeals to court were made. [16] One branch of the NUM, at Annesley in Nottinghamshire, put forward a vote of no confidence in Scargill in autumn 1983 following his comments on these matters, but Scargill defeated this at a December meeting and won a vote of confidence instead. Angry Stefni Logan revealed that her father James had dated his estranged wife Heather while romancing Dr Margaret Scargill. Some of the cash was provided by his daughter Dr Margaret Scargill. 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. "Analysing the British miners' strike of 19845.". "Five years ago, when I first started, if we got 30 or 40, we thought we'd got a lot," she says. Born In: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK, education: The Elmhirst School (1953), University of Leeds, See the events in life of Arthur Scargill in Chronological Order, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pit_Closure_Rally_(6008227201).jpg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQjEopv9ZgQ. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.". Arthur Scargill was born on 11th January 1938, in Worsbrough Dale, in South Yorkshire, England, into a family of coal miners. A PEACOCKING manchild lingering where the money is. [31] There was much criticism of Scargill within the NUM from the Welsh and Scottish areas, who briefly considered splitting from the NUM. Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. "Don't you think I've done enough without him?". [35] Negotiations between Scargill and the NUM took place in France. [57] Scargill supported the 2022 United Kingdom railway strike, joining an RMT picket line in Wakefield on 21 June 2022. 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. Instead she went on aspokesmansaid.com and Axa covered her for 343, a saving of 424. 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]. 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 . David Wilkie, who died instantly, leaving behind a 2 year old daughter and his pregnant fiancee who gave birth 6 weeks later. 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. They brought into office the Government of Lady Thatcher. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. I got my mobile phone, and I sent him a text. For other uses, see, Early political and trade union activities. So I sent an email, and the 7,000 was rejected. 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. says Scargill. He felt that the Labour Party had betrayed the basic principles of the party`s constitution. . 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. But his daughter visits him regularly. 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. "He's estranged from his ex-wife. As the anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike approaches, its figurehead Arthur Scargill has become a recluse, at war with the current NUM leadership. 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. 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. And as Iwas in the area, it would be remiss of me not to knock on his door. "[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. 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. But apparently not. 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. 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! 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. They were released from prison in November 1989. Hanging on a door facing the back garden is a fluorescent jacket. We've got food banks now, but they're doing clothing banks for children and babies as well.". I cannot find parliamentary language to use to describe Arthur Scargill.. Well, he is, indispatches [laughs].". The NUM says the money is being used to defend what remains of the coal industry and help both its members and former miners. McIlroy, J. Elegant Princess of Wales is all smiles as she plays with children on visit to a nursery amid backlash over Thrifty Kate strikes again! But his victory is in the struggle itself. 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. [56], In July 2021 he spoke at the Rebel Town Festival in Jarrow. They need this like a hole in the head.. Mention of him draws a quick response. This was denied by the government at the time, although papers released in 2014 under the thirty-year rule suggest that Scargill was right. Jeremy Hunt is mocked over toe-curling 'inflation explainer' video by ordering How much will YOUR broadband go up in price? 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. He founded the Socialist Labour Party in 1996, after he left the Labour Party. [53], Scargill still occasionally gives interviews and makes appearances. Published: 23:21 GMT, 11 April 2013 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 12 April 2013. [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. 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. Back in 1993 he first tried to acquire the flat under Margaret Thatchers right-to-buy scheme. Self defense expert shares live-saving hacks for evading ALL kinds of attacks - from cutting Do not sell or share my personal information. After a Labour Party conference speech on energy policy by Richard Marsh in July 1967, Scargill said: I can honestly say that I never heard flannel like we got from the Minister he said that we have nuclear power stations with us, whether we like it or not. Of all the people I can think of Scargill, is the least deserving of tenants. Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dies at . ", There follows the most illustrative of anecdotes. His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. Arthur Scargill opinion Leon Brittan was the shadowy power behind Margaret Thatcher's war on the miners Leon Brittan Arthur Scargill returns to Orgreave site where he was ''knocked unconscious. My mother was strictly non-political. Mr Capstick told ITV News: Id been talking to Arthur some ten minutes earlier so I sent him a text message, a very short one, just said Thatcher dead. He listens to all this with an air of mild amusement. Peter, Gibbon. We stood and fought against enormous odds, and not just for the pits for our way of life. ARTHUR SCARGILL has two faces. Photograph: Don Mcphee for the Guardian. 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. They came back to me, and said: 'We'll up it to 10,000.' His father`s name was Harold and his mother`s name was Alice. I think people would be astounded if they knew that."[42]. Shankland's and Hancock's life sentences for murder were reduced to eight years for manslaughter on appeal. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. 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. Baroness Thatcher was very lucky,' he said. The strike started in Yorkshire, and he was not present at the delegate Council meeting in Barnsley. Even Muslim groups think the idea is mad. [53] Following Margaret Thatcher's death in April 2013, ITN made Scargill several offers for a five-minute interview, with the final offer reaching 16,000, but Scargill refused all the offers and did not speak to any media organisation. In Grimethorpe, 100% of the miners were on strike. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. It's Mr (coffee) Bean! In 1964, he was also elected representative to the Yorkshire area meetings. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the NUM, at the union's headquarters in Barnsley. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. He has his relatives around him, his two grandsons ". Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. In 1974, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that led Prime Minister Edward Heath to call a February general election.[13]. 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. Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. I received one almost instantly saying Scargill alive! and hes very much alive. [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. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. He wouldn't say another word. The militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. They need this like a hole in the head', They expected, particularly Master Scargill, to bring down her Government, too. Back then, Scargill was the wife of a man who would soon be among the two or three most famous people in the country, but what she did during the strike pushed her conclusively out of his shadow. To my mind there should be no criticism of Mr Hollywood for following the money and I suspect if you had been in the same position you too would have gone. If you're out for a wage increase, you can cut a deal. 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. [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. Scargill opposed civilian nuclear power and, during the first Wilson ministry, became highly critical of the government's energy policy. [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. The militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers was the Tory prime ministers most bitter enemy during the miners' strike of 1984 but has not commented publicly on her demise. Scargill was the only child of his parents. I've never criticised Arthur for what he did during the strike, because I didn't know the ins and out of it at the time. 21 Feb 2012. 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. The secretary at this time was a very good friend of mine called Jimmy Reid, and we're still close friends. [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. of the other candidates claimed that they were given very little time to prepare. Coles worker fights a woman allegedly trying to steal groceries, Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions. In Fridays column I wrote about the difficulty forces were having in finding officers good enough to step up to Chief Constable with both Lincolnshire and the Met struggling to find the right calibre of applicant. He contested twice, in the 1997 general election, as well as the 2001 general election. "[28] This was in the Prime Minister's rejection of Labour calls for an apology for government actions during the 19841985 miners' strike. [8], Scargill was a leader of the unofficial strike in 1969, which began in Yorkshire and spread across the country. 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. I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. Herein, she says, lies a direct link to what she did three decades ago. Arthur Scargill is now 76. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the trade union movement. [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. Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. 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