We did soup kitchens. 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. 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. Labours Lord Gilbert hailed Lady Thatchers good fortune in facing Mr Scargill. 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". He was on television all the time: a charismatic character. I cannot find parliamentary language to use to describe Arthur Scargill.. "They asked me to relay that to him. I were 42, me. The political power of the NUM and of most British trade unions was severely reduced. He studied security videotapes and saw Mrs Scargill sneaking along a corridor with a tube of glue in her hands. [54] He gave a rare television interview to ITV News at that time. They had one daughter named Margaret. Just to hammer the point home, it was in block capitals: "SCARGILL ALIVE! His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. . ', Mr Scargill replied simply: Scargill Alive!. "One day last year, I was talking to him on the phone. "He's OK," says Capstick. [53], Scargill still occasionally gives interviews and makes appearances. In 2014, it was reported that Scargill had become a recluse. IN Fridays column I was critical of my British Airways flight to New York where both the food and service were poor. 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 man's had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. Like Anne Scargill and Betty Cook, Capstick will be appearing at this year's commemorative events, across Yorkshire and elsewhere. In 1958, he attended the World Federation of Trade Unions youth congress in Prague. 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. Arthur Scargill was born on 11th January 1938, in Worsbrough Dale, in South Yorkshire, England, into a family of coal miners. A former miner and vice-president of the Yorkshire NUM, he now serves as the treasurer of the Socialist Labour Party, the would-be challenger to Tony Blair that Scargill founded in 1996, whose membership has since dwindled to around 300. Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. 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. He lives a normal sort of a life. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the trade union movement. Wilsher, Peter, Donald Macintyre, and Michael CE Jones, eds. He also had an important role in the `Battle of Saltley Gate, that closed Birmingham`s Saltley coke depot. And yesterday, do you know what? 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. I thought: 'Well I've got to do it.' That couldnt be true as she announced after the series ended she was gay. He understood the plight of the workers, and chose to stay and remain a self-appointed representative of the workers. 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. Arthur Scargill's net worth estimate is $100,000 - $1M. But I can't promise you there'll be any chance of an interview.' . Hero of the working classes, Arthur Scargill, has joined the Conservative Party after they allowed the opening of a new coal mine in Cumbria. The Enemy Within", Verso 2014. [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. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. The strike began on 12 March 1984, and became known for being one of the most violent events in British labour history. So our conscience is clear. It's always those lower down who are suffering. 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. 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. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. 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. Arthur Scargill's life path number is 6 Life Path Number 6 represent 'The Nurturer'. 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. Arthur Scargill is a Capricorn and was born in The Year of the Tiger Life. 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. For other uses, see, Early political and trade union activities. 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. "We're going backwards, aren't we?" 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. Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. 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. offers Cook. 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. "Two Kinds of Reform: Left Leadership in the British National Union of Mineworkers and the United Mineworkers of America, 19821990. Frederik White with his wife Jennifer and 16-month-old daughter Nicky. [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. It was all or nothing. He was the representative of the Yorkshire miners. And he's done very well out of it.". Arthur Scargill at a mass rally in 1984, during his time as NUM leader (PA) Margaret Thatcher: . It was a major political victory for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. "At least Women Against Pit Closures tried to do something to prevent it happening. Jeremy Hunt is mocked over toe-curling 'inflation explainer' video by ordering How much will YOUR broadband go up in price? The Yorkshire native is the son of a miner, who. 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. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 10 Dec 2012. He played an important role in the miners' strike of 1972 and was involved in the mass picket at Saltley Gate in Birmingham. [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. 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. [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. 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. His mother, Alice (ne Pickering), was a professional cook. [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". 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. Loyal Anne Scargill, 57, has moved out of the couple's luxury pounds 200,000 bungalow. Photograph: Don Mcphee for the Guardian. He studied at the Worsbrough Dale School, till he was fifteen. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. 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. Mr Logan, 42, is now business manager at the Ashville Medical Centre, in Barnsley, where Dr Scargill works as a GP. When remembering this, she brims with the same rage she must have felt at the time. MINERS' leader Arthur Scargill has left his wife after 37 years, it was revealed last night. The comments below have been moderated in advance. having received a 500,000 discount. ARE our chief constables going quite potty? 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. 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His application was refused because the flat in the Barbican Estate's Shakespeare Tower was not Scargill's primary residence. 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. Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. He went on to be elected president of the NUM from. We went in search of Yorkshire's living legend and found him, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Arthur Scargill leads picketing miners at Orgreave, 1984. In time he and his family moved to a more comfortable, modern home in the town where he grew up. Scargill decided to turn his attention to politics. Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. [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. In 1961, Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee. 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. It is now worth around 2million. Most viewed. 'To say that is in no way to diminish her achievements and accomplishments. [8], Scargill was a leader of the unofficial strike in 1969, which began in Yorkshire and spread across the country. The militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. He reaches for his phone and shows me what he received. 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. 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. We stood and fought against enormous odds, and not just for the pits for our way of life. 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. 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". Most of Arthur's money comes from being a politician. 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 . That's what I believe.". After all hes 78 and the old fraud must go some time. People have said things about him and his affairs, and it's only fair that he should be given a chance to respond. His eyes have sunk a little into his face; the voice is deeper and huskier than it once was. 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. "Goodbye to all that? He tells me he's writing a book. With the promise of at least 5 in cash, its sign reads thus: "We buy your unwanted clothes, shoes, socks, belts, handbags, paired footwear.". It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. A motion from the Kent area was passed by the NUM conference to move the head office to a coalfield. Another column reader, Sandra from Pinner, North West London, was quoted 767 to renew her car insurance by Direct Line. 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. A PEACOCKING manchild lingering where the money is. I'm working on article about the 30th anniversary of the strike, I say. ", 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? 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 also became known in the 1972 strike, where he was the spokesman for the Yorkshire miners. He stepped down from leadership of the NUM at the end of July 2002, to become the honorary president. [32] The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. You couldnt make this up. 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. Back in 1993 he first tried to acquire the flat under Margaret Thatchers right-to-buy scheme. I don't know how far he's got. ", ITN, he claims, offered Scargill 7,000 for a five-minute interview. View our online Press Pack. 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. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.". 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. Even if talent is thin on the ground could I suggest the Crime Commissioners of Leicestershire and West Midlands do us all a favour by throwing out their deranged Chief Constables. 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[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. In May 2009, he was a candidate for the Socialist Labour Party for one of London's seats in the European Parliament. If you're out for a wage increase, you can cut a deal. 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. This was denied by the government at the time, although papers released in 2014 under the thirty-year rule suggest that Scargill was right. 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[26], There is a prevailing view that Arthur Scargill, the NUM National President, called the strike. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? This had great implications for regional relations in the NUM; the executive was described as dominated by "Gormley's rotten boroughs", since every region even quite small ones had one delegate, and the larger regions had only a few more (Scotland and South Wales had two delegates each, Yorkshire had three). So that was my initial introduction into socialism and into political militancy. Why should the leader of the Socialist Labour Party (a Corbyn ally naturally) be allowed to pocket a million? By 1984 however the police were ready and neutralized the tactic with superior force. Their life sentences were eventually reduced to eight years. The hidden ingredient in your supermarket loaf that might put you off bread for good. In 2016 it was reported that the grandfather of two was living in a three-bedroom detached country house in Yorkshire owned by his. Downstairs in the NUM's waiting room there are flyers and posters advertising other events, complete with long lists of invited speakers. 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. All rights reserved. Mention of him draws a quick response. He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School). 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. An email came back: 'No.' I have since received an email from Alex Cruz, the chief executive and chairman of BA, apologising for my experience. 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. Arthur's dad lived with us as well: there were me, Arthur, Margaret [their daughter] and Arthur's dad. A secret record is kept of the time at which all workers arrive and leave each day. Scargill joined the Labour Party in 1962. He founded the Socialist Labour Party in 1996, after he left the Labour Party. 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. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dear+Arthur+Scargill%2c+before+you+let+your+daughter+marry+my+love-+rat-a060693318. "But we've had to move to new premises. And as Iwas in the area, it would be remiss of me not to knock on his door. "Destroy everything, and create a 'me-me-me' class. This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 23:47. The strike started in Yorkshire, and he was not present at the delegate Council meeting in Barnsley. 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. [5] In 1957 he was elected NUM Yorkshire Area Youth Delegate, and attended the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow as a representative of the Yorkshire miners. 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. After the miners' strike in 1984, there were accusations that Arthur Scargill had misappropriated National Union of Mineworkers funds and that money which sh. 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. [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. [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. 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. 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. I presume Ms Tandohs bile is based on the fact she was NFI (not flipping invited) or more seriously NEFC (never even flippin considered) for the role at C4. Hanging on a door facing the back garden is a fluorescent jacket. His father`s name was Harold and his mother`s name was Alice. 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. 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 . 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. I've had hundreds and hundreds of pounds offered for my story, and I'm not washing my dirty linen in public.". Darlington, "There is no alternative: Exploring the options in the 1984-5 miners' strike. 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. The NUM is not your personal bank account and never will be again. 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. Many of us started in the 1950s in the Young Communist League. 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