The Enemy Within", Verso 2014. [37], The South Wales area leader, Des Dutfield, moved that Scargill should stand down and face re-election, but the motion was defeated. He lives a normal sort of a life. Of all the people I can think of Scargill, is the least deserving of tenants. There aretwo security cameras fixed to the front wall, and all the blinds are closed. And I got a reply." But his victory is in the struggle itself. Cold, hard facts about how freezing winter weather can harm your health. Arthur Scargill is a Capricorn and was born in The Year of the Tiger Life. He founded the Socialist Labour Party in 1996, after he left the Labour Party. 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. Several dispirited strikers decided to return to work after around a year, and the strike ended in a failure. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the NUM, at the union's headquarters in Barnsley. Was it an investment by her so she cleans up when he dies? 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. But so far, Arthur Scargill is conspicuous by his absence. He left school in 1953 at fifteen years old to work as a coal miner at Woolley Colliery, where he worked for nineteen years.[2][3]. [14], Scargill was a very vocal opponent of Thatcher's Conservative government, frequently appearing on television to attack it. David Wilkie, who died instantly, leaving behind a 2 year old daughter and his pregnant fiancee who gave birth 6 weeks later. [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". 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. There, he met Russian leaders such as Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. I thought: 'Well I've got to do it.' So that was my initial introduction into socialism and into political militancy. Copyright 1998 Gale, Cengage Learning. Like Anne Scargill and Betty Cook, Capstick will be appearing at this year's commemorative events, across Yorkshire and elsewhere. There's more to this new Arthur Scargill chic than mere fashion nostalgia. 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. [29], In 1998, Scargill and his wife, Anne, separated.[30]. [3] The couple had a daughter together, Margaret Scargill, in 1962 who is now a practicing GP. 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. I've had hundreds and hundreds of pounds offered for my story, and I'm not washing my dirty linen in public.". 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. And as Iwas in the area, it would be remiss of me not to knock on his door. I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. They divorced in 2001. 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. That's what I believe.". 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. "[40] Scargill complained to the Advertising Standards Authority who criticised the advertisement as "highly distasteful". a zero-hours contract. Photograph: Don Mcphee for the Guardian. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Arthur's dad lived with us as well: there were me, Arthur, Margaret [their daughter] and Arthur's dad. They divorced in 2001. [9] He had challenged Sam Bullough, the President of the Yorkshire area NUM, to act on the working hours of surface workers, given that the union's conference had passed a resolution that their hours be shortened the previous year. "Leadership in the Miners Union-Scargill, Arthur Rise to Power. 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. Published: 23:21 GMT, 11 April 2013 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 12 April 2013. They were released from prison in November 1989. The NUM's general secretary is 47-year-old Chris Kitchen. "I'm just curious as to why some of the stuff we're finding out and bringing to light wasn't brought to light years ago," he says. 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?] Coles worker fights a woman allegedly trying to steal groceries, Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions. So how is he? It is only after I leave the NUM's HQ for the last time that one striking fact hits home. "[44] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. Darlington, "There is no alternative: Exploring the options in the 1984-5 miners' strike. After the miners' strike in 1984, there were accusations that Arthur Scargill had misappropriated National Union of Mineworkers funds and that money which sh. If you were on the minimum wage it would take 100 years to earn the 1,500,000 you needed to buy that flat. 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. 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. Herein, she says, lies a direct link to what she did three decades ago. More than 100 migrants suffer freezing temperatures to get to UK while French coastguard pluck another 45 Bad news, men 'winter penis' might be real after all, doctors say. He was defeated on both occasions. Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. 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. He claimed that the government had a long-term strategy to destroy the industry by closing unprofitable pits, and that it listed pits it wanted to close each year. 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. 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. This eventually led to the strike of 1984, when the government announced that they intend to close 20 coal mines. They'll probably be 10 or 11 now.". I think we should be told. Many of the details are too complex and arcane to comprehensively explain, let alone understand, though some of what has emerged from all this tussling has been manna from heaven to those sections of the press who would have their readers believe that Scargill's reputation is beyond repair. 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. "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. After all hes 78 and the old fraud must go some time. Milne, Seumas. " 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". There was some controversy in February 1985 when Times journalist Paul Routledge engaged the Queen in discussion on the strike, and the Queen said that the strike was "all about one man", which Routledge objected to. [7], Scargill became involved in the Yorkshire Left, a group of left-wing activists involved in the Yorkshire region of the NUM, its largest region. The hidden ingredient in your supermarket loaf that might put you off bread for good. 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. In time he and his family moved to a more comfortable, modern home in the town where he grew up. Its main image is of a solitary miner, with arms aloft, climbing a staircase to the clouds. On 25 August 2010, it was reported that Scargill had been told that he no longer qualified for full membership of the NUM under union rules that he had helped draw up, but was only eligible for "life", "retired" or "honorary" membership, none of which carried voting rights. Im shocked.. With the promise of at least 5 in cash, its sign reads thus: "We buy your unwanted clothes, shoes, socks, belts, handbags, paired footwear.". Start your Independent Premium subscription today. All net worths are calculated by applying a proprietary algorithm. of the other candidates claimed that they were given very little time to prepare. 'To say that is in no way to diminish her achievements and accomplishments. Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. . 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. 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. Scargill opposed civilian nuclear power and, during the first Wilson ministry, became highly critical of the government's energy policy. Peter, Gibbon. 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. She and Cook, then a miner's wife were among the founders of an organisation called Women Against Pit Closures, and organised support for striking miners' families, as well as taking to picket lines: early on in the strike, she was hauled away from one such gathering in Nottinghamshire, and detained for hours at a police station, where she was eventually strip-searched. [34] Scargill accepted Lightman's statement that many of his actions suffered from a lack of professional advice, which he was unwilling to be bound by. A smile. "I've never, ever said owt. The Yorkshire native is the son of a miner, who. ", There follows the most illustrative of anecdotes. [57] Scargill supported the 2022 United Kingdom railway strike, joining an RMT picket line in Wakefield on 21 June 2022. [32] The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. A PEACOCKING manchild lingering where the money is. 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. They need this like a hole in the head.. [56], In July 2021 he spoke at the Rebel Town Festival in Jarrow. If you're out for a wage increase, you can cut a deal. They've made me worse.'". 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. 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. My mother was strictly non-political. 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. We did soup kitchens. It is now worth around 2million. Exciting, witty Arthur Scargill brought coalmining to a close in Britain far faster than would have happened had the NUM been led by some prevaricating, dreary old-style union hack. 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. "Yes. 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. ", R.R. This was denied by the government at the time, although papers released in 2014 under the thirty-year rule suggest that Scargill was right. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. He arrived at the colliery to find he could not get into his office because someone had super-glued the door shut. All rights reserved. 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. [53], Scargill still occasionally gives interviews and makes appearances. [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. 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". ', Mr Scargill replied simply: Scargill Alive!. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. He also represented the Barnsley Co-op at Cooperative congresses. 6 teaches true compassion and empathy. "The way I would put that is this," he says. He may still lose. Wheat it and weep! Some of the cash was provided by his daughter Dr Margaret Scargill. Mr Scargill replied simply: 'Scargill Alive! "I never, ever talk about my ex-husband," says Anne Scargill. In 1958, he attended the World Federation of Trade Unions youth congress in Prague. [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. [37] Scargill reached an agreement to repay money to the NUM shortly after this. . Arthur had told me that under no circumstances was he going to give an interview. 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". IN Fridays column I was critical of my British Airways flight to New York where both the food and service were poor. The names of all incoming telephone callers are recorded on a central log. 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. He very, very rarely came home, 'cos he was always in the offices or organising things. [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. His daughter is in leg braces and takes tenuous steps into parliament, while members shake her hand . My father was a Communist. It was a major political victory for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. 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. [31] There was much criticism of Scargill within the NUM from the Welsh and Scottish areas, who briefly considered splitting from the NUM. 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 . https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/arthur-scargill-50638.php. I receive no reply. Those who walk a Life Path with Number 6 gift the world with unconditional love, healing and nurturing. One of his closest associates is Ken Capstick, 73, who lives 20 minutes' drive from Barnsley in a quiet corner of Wakefield. 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. The fight was a political one, as well. Anne, in 2001 and reportedly refused to attend the wedding of his daughter Margaret. News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 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. 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. Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. The results are then fact checked and confirmed by our staff. 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. View our online Press Pack. When remembering this, she brims with the same rage she must have felt at the time. [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. In the 2001 general election, he ran against Peter Mandelson in Hartlepool. "[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 was on television all the time: a charismatic character. "I don't know what a deal would have been," he says. Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. A lot of other people on the National Executive at that time went on and became very respectable Labour MPs in Parliament. We got 111. 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. In 1957, he attended the world youth festival held at Moscow. "He doesn't live lavishly, although he does like a glass of red wine. And he's done very well out of it.". "Goodbye to all that? I'm working on article about the 30th anniversary of the strike, I say. Arthur Scargill's net worth estimate is $100,000 - $1M. Either they won or we did.". . They made a final offer of 16,000." [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]. 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. Campbell, Adrian, and Malcolm Warner. But one name is missing: that of Scargill's ex-husband, who will forever be synonymous with the events of 1984 and 85, but has seemingly resolved to sit through the anniversary in silence. 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. And now he's ditched all that. 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. His mother, Alice (ne Pickering), was a professional cook. 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