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. Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. I suggest to this Conference that we have coal mines with us but they did something about this problem: they closed them down. "I've never, ever said owt. A former Labour Party member, Scargill is now leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), founded by him in 1996. 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). Mr Logan, 42, is now business manager at the Ashville Medical Centre, in Barnsley, where Dr Scargill works as a GP. But my father never forced me to be involved in politics at all.[5]. The power is amazing. Why Arthur Scargill is reluctant to leave his 1.5m Barbican flat The National Union of Mineworkers is fed up of forking out for their former president, but he clearly likes his home among the. You will be appalled to learn he has achieved his 20-year ambition. Its the next paragraph I found most interesting. 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 miles across broken glass to stop the sell-off of council properties. He smiles. 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?] 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". [49], After stepping down from leadership of the NUM, Scargill became active in the UK's Stalin Society[50] saying that the "ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin explain the real world". 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.. Scargill had condemned the killing at the time. "How can you come to a compromise so you, say, agree to close half the pits that were threatened? 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. 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". Advertisement Further Reading on Arthur Scargill The best work on Scargill was Michael Crick, Scargill and the Miners (1985). ", She then shoots me a look. Scargill was divorced from his activist wife Anne in 2001. 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. The Yorkshire native is the son of a miner, who. It is only after I leave the NUM's HQ for the last time that one striking fact hits home. 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. He soon started demanding an improvement in the working conditions, and wrote letters to several agencies and newspapers. Even his own union are up in arms at the purchase. His father was also a loyal member of the Communist Party. "It was Thatcher's legislation, actually giving council tenants the right to buy their own houses. 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. And this is why. Frederik White with his wife Jennifer and 16-month-old daughter Nicky. 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. Arthur had told me that under no circumstances was he going to give an interview. All but two of the county's collieries have closed, and in their place are seemingly endless retail parks, the foundations of a local economy in which people work in shops to spend money in other shops. 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. 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. "He doesn't live lavishly, although he does like a glass of red wine. of the other candidates claimed that they were given very little time to prepare. "He's estranged from his ex-wife. 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. Published: 23:21 GMT, 11 April 2013 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 12 April 2013. Arthur Scargill wins 13,000 damages from National Union of Mineworkers. Their life sentences were eventually reduced to eight years. Wheat it and weep! I have since received an email from Alex Cruz, the chief executive and chairman of BA, apologising for my experience. 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. He has contested two parliamentary elections. Like Anne Scargill and Betty Cook, Capstick will be appearing at this year's commemorative events, across Yorkshire and elsewhere. ", There follows the most illustrative of anecdotes. Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. To be paid 400,000-a-year to eat cake for an hour makes it the least onerous and most highly paid TV job with the exception of football pundit. 'We now have a situation where the government and the establishment have a funeral on their hands which they wish they didnt have. Terms of use | "It's sad to be inthis position. [15] However, Scargill's statements in the years after becoming NUM president divided left-wing opinion with his support of the Soviet Union, most notably when he refused to support the TUC's positions on the Solidarity union in Poland or on the Soviet shooting down of the Korean Air Lines Flight 007. [32] The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. They divorced in 2001. Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. 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. Self defense expert shares live-saving hacks for evading ALL kinds of attacks - from cutting Do not sell or share my personal information. His mother, Alice (ne Pickering), was a professional cook. In 1964, he was also elected representative to the Yorkshire area meetings. It just said: 'Thatcher dead.' 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. Star Lenny a victim in privacy scandal; OPERATION MOTORMAN: Funnyman one of host of celebs in security breach. 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. Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. 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. "Two Kinds of Reform: Left Leadership in the British National Union of Mineworkers and the United Mineworkers of America, 19821990. IN Fridays column I was critical of my British Airways flight to New York where both the food and service were poor. In 1961, Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee. Scargill and his wife Anne, herself a miner's daughter and an active organizer of miners' groups, had one daughter, Margaret. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Soon, he also made his first attempt to win political office in a local council election, though he was defeated. He injured himself acouple of years ago playing penalty shoot-out with his grandkids. For webmasters |. He studied at the Worsbrough Dale School, till he was fifteen. Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who used to be the president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Elegant Princess of Wales is all smiles as she plays with children on visit to a nursery amid backlash over Thrifty Kate strikes again! [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. He stood as an independent communist, as he had never joined the Communist Party formally. We did soup kitchens. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. 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. She queried it and as a loyalty bonus they reduced to 655. But an issue like that it wasn't easy to come to a compromise. "He's OK," says Capstick. In 2016 it was reported that the grandfather of two was living in a three-bedroom detached country house in Yorkshire owned by his. All rights reserved. His father`s name was Harold and his mother`s name was Alice. [3] The couple had a daughter together, Margaret Scargill, in 1962 who is now a practicing GP. His eyes have sunk a little into his face; the voice is deeper and huskier than it once was. Instead she went on aspokesmansaid.com and Axa covered her for 343, a saving of 424. He played a significant role in the unofficial strike of UK miners in 1969. Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. Harper married Arthur Scargill, who was also an elected member of the Trade Union branch committee at Woolley Colliery, at Gawber Parish Church on 16 September 1961. 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. 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. Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. Having been elected president of the NUM in 1981, Scargill held that position for just over 20 years. 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. 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. 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. We got 111. The Enemy Within", Verso 2014. McIlroy, J. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/arthur-scargill-50638.php. He can either cower down and take his beating, or he can stand and fight, and hope to maybe land a few punches. 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], Scargill was a very vocal opponent of Thatcher's Conservative government, frequently appearing on television to attack it. And did we win that? The following year, he also became a member of the Labour Party. They're at it again! Arthur Scargill at a mass rally in 1984, during his time as NUM leader (PA) Margaret Thatcher: . Had he done the humble thing and walked away with what he were entitled to, his reputation would still be intact.". There, he met Russian leaders such as Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. [9] This performance strengthened his popularity with the Yorkshire miners. 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. 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. I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. You couldnt make this up. In 1957, he attended the world youth festival held at Moscow. Mention of him draws a quick response. 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