[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. Hanging on a door facing the back garden is a fluorescent jacket. 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. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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. Scargill recalled how after becoming a miner, the poor working conditions and "people who should never have been working, having to work to live on that first day I promised myself I would try one day to get things changed". "It's strange, because Arthur was a media person. "How can you come to a compromise so you, say, agree to close half the pits that were threatened? If you were on the minimum wage it would take 100 years to earn the 1,500,000 you needed to buy that flat. Mr Scargill staged the nationwide walkout without holding a strike ballot, an omission which fatally undermined public support for the NUM. Arthur Scargill, the son and grandson of coal miners, was born in Worsborough, South Yorkshire, in 1938. 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. "I don't see much difference betweenthe way Arthur has lived his life and thecapitalist system he built areputation for fighting in that he's allout for his self. His father, Harold, was a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He also stated regarding Brexit that "we should just invoke the first clause of Article 50 and that means we could leave the EU tomorrow". In 2014, it was reported that Scargill had become a recluse. Well, he is, indispatches [laughs].". By Tom Whitehead and Tomwhitehead. The media characterised the strike as "Scargill's strike" and his critics accused him of looking for an excuse for industrial action since becoming union president. Thats what right-to-buy did for ordinary people. My father was a Communist. He is 84 years old and is a Capricorn. 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. 21 Feb 2012. The following year, he also became a member of the Labour Party. a zero-hours contract. Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. He may still lose. So does his son-in-law. "I was either on a picket line, or in a soup kitchen. Arthur's dad lived with us as well: there were me, Arthur, Margaret [their daughter] and Arthur's dad. After his return to Britain, he joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. On a nearby mantelpiece is a small pink calendar, filling up with dates: academic seminars, radio shows, outdoor festivals and more. Arthur Scargill was born in England, United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 11, 1938 (Silent Generation). 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'. There, he met Russian leaders such as Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. Anne Scargill (left) and Betty Cook at the National Union of Mineworkers headquarters in Barnsley. [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. 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. Either they won or we did.". Do send more to kelvin@the-sun.co.uk. Its the next paragraph I found most interesting. Milne, Seumas. " Unlike the strikes in the 1970s, the later strike ended with the miners' defeat and the Thatcher government was able to consolidate its fiscally conservative programme. For webmasters |. Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. 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. This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 23:47. [14], Scargill was a very vocal opponent of Thatcher's Conservative government, frequently appearing on television to attack it. IN Fridays column I was critical of my British Airways flight to New York where both the food and service were poor. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) I suggest to this Conference that we have coal mines with us but they did something about this problem: they closed them down. But his brain is as active as ever. Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938)[1] is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. 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. SCARGILL'S GIRL TO WED MAN WHO SHUT LAST PIT; Mum-in-law's office attack. [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. That violence strengthened the stature of the Coal Board and the Thatcher government. The comments below have been moderated in advance. [14], The vast majority of head-office staff took redundancy rather than move to Sheffield. Frederik White with his wife Jennifer and 16-month-old daughter Nicky. This eventually led to the strike of 1984, when the government announced that they intend to close 20 coal mines. I sent a message it was 10,000. 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. 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. Several dispirited strikers decided to return to work after around a year, and the strike ended in a failure. "One day last year, I was talking to him on the phone. Shankland's and Hancock's life sentences for murder were reduced to eight years for manslaughter on appeal. I think people would be astounded if they knew that."[42]. He took a part-time course as well at the University of Leeds. He arrived at the colliery to find he could not get into his office because someone had super-glued the door shut. You will be appalled to learn he has achieved his 20-year ambition. 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. 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. A PEACOCKING manchild lingering where the money is. Im shocked.. 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. In 2016 it was reported that the grandfather of two was living in a three-bedroom detached country house in Yorkshire owned by his. A secret record is kept of the time at which all workers arrive and leave each day. He stepped down from leadership of the NUM at the end of July 2002, to become the honorary president. "He's OK," says Capstick. I drove the picket bus. 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?] THE man set to marry the daughter of miners' leader Arthur Scargill was yesterday branded a love cheat - by his own daughter. 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. Another column reader, Sandra from Pinner, North West London, was quoted 767 to renew her car insurance by Direct Line. Would you not love to have Arthur Scargill as your opponent in any debate, a man who is frightened to go to his own members to get them to vote for a strike that he called? offers Cook. ", Howell, David, et al. If you're out for a wage increase, you can cut a deal. But an issue like that it wasn't easy to come to a compromise. [35] Negotiations between Scargill and the NUM took place in France. 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. They need this like a hole in the head', They expected, particularly Master Scargill, to bring down her Government, too. Five seconds later, the door creaks open, and there he is: the man who onceparried the huge forces of British industrial history, dressed in a white-and-blue check shirt and light blue denim trousers. [47], In 1996, Scargill founded the Socialist Labour Party after the Labour Party abandoned the original wording of Clause IV advocating the public democratic ownership[48] of key industries and utilities from their constitution. An email came back: 'No.' Start your Independent Premium subscription today. You couldnt make this up. Like Anne Scargill and Betty Cook, Capstick will be appearing at this year's commemorative events, across Yorkshire and elsewhere. We were busy. In a 1975 interview with New Left Review Scargill said: I was in the Young Communist League for about six or seven years and I became a member of its National Executive Committee responsible for industrial work. [54] He gave a rare television interview to ITV News at that time. 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. 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He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School). By 1984 however the police were ready and neutralized the tactic with superior force. Arthur Scargill, I ask you. Staff members suddenly taken ill, or with long-standing medical appointments, require his personal consent to be absent from the office. His father was also a loyal member of the Communist Party. 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. Online calculator reveals how inflation-busting 14.4% hike will Aldi and Lidl shoppers face highest inflation hikes: Cost of basic groceries rise by more than 20% at the Is inflation FINALLY on the way down? 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