Princess Royal honours Team GB curling stars and Scottish police chief at Palace of Peter Andre launches scathing attack on Prince Harry as he says Duke of Sussex is 'publicly trashing his Heartbreak for Kate: Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, who dedicated his life to educating on the horrors of Charles's first royal RSVP! But his brain is as active as ever. [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. offers Cook. Another column reader, Sandra from Pinner, North West London, was quoted 767 to renew her car insurance by Direct Line. The house in which he was born and in which he lived for his first three years had neither plumbing nor electricity. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike. He studied at the Worsbrough Dale School, till he was fifteen. [57] Scargill supported the 2022 United Kingdom railway strike, joining an RMT picket line in Wakefield on 21 June 2022. 'To say that is in no way to diminish her achievements and accomplishments. 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. Hero of the working classes, Arthur Scargill, has joined the Conservative Party after they allowed the opening of a new coal mine in Cumbria. I hate all women. [56], In July 2021 he spoke at the Rebel Town Festival in Jarrow. They lived in the house Scargill grew up in Worsborough, South Yorkshire. He is 84 years old and is a Capricorn. And yesterday, do you know what? 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. 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. Elegant Princess of Wales is all smiles as she plays with children on visit to a nursery amid backlash over Thrifty Kate strikes again! [32] The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. The fight was a political one, as well. This was denied by the government at the time, although papers released in 2014 under the thirty-year rule suggest that Scargill was right. Instead she went on aspokesmansaid.com and Axa covered her for 343, a saving of 424. Who is Arthur Scargill? His major innovation was organising "flying pickets" involving hundreds or thousands of committed strikers who could be bussed to critical strike points to shut down a target. Arthur's dad lived with us as well: there were me, Arthur, Margaret [their daughter] and Arthur's dad. Even his own union are up in arms at the purchase. If you were on the minimum wage it would take 100 years to earn the 1,500,000 you needed to buy that flat. He lives a normal sort of a life. That violence strengthened the stature of the Coal Board and the Thatcher government. 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. He gained fame for using the tactic to win the Battle of Saltley Gate in 1972, and made it his main tactical device in the 1984 strike. Campbell, Adrian, and Malcolm Warner. [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". He was on television all the time: a charismatic character. Mention of him draws a quick response. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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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. 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. British trade unionist Arthur Scargill marching with his wife Anne and other miners' wives during a protest in London, UK, 12th August 1984. 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. They've made me worse.'". What can he tell me about Scargill's everyday life? They divorced in 2001. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/arthur-scargill-50638.php. My mother was strictly non-political. 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". "I am writing a book, but he'snot mentioned in it. Just to hammer the point home, it was in block capitals: "SCARGILL ALIVE! Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. ", Gildart, Keith. His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. They're at it again! He stepped down from leadership of the NUM at the end of July 2002, to become the honorary president. He went on to be elected president of the NUM from. 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. Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. With the promise of at least 5 in cash, its sign reads thus: "We buy your unwanted clothes, shoes, socks, belts, handbags, paired footwear.". He arrived at the colliery to find he could not get into his office because someone had super-glued the door shut. It's the last place Ivisit in Yorkshire before I turn the car round and head south: a low, long, stone-clad cottage only 50 or so yards from the M1, with a silver 4x4 parked outside, and a modest set of gates. For other inquiries, Contact Us. 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. Even Muslim groups think the idea is mad. The 84-year-old British politician has done well thus far! Arthur Scargill, the son and grandson of coal miners, was born in Worsborough, South Yorkshire, in 1938. There aretwo security cameras fixed to the front wall, and all the blinds are closed. 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. "[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. By Tom Whitehead and Tomwhitehead. [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. Is it time Harry & Meghan accept Clarkson's apology and move on? As the militant leader of the miners, Arthur Scargill fought Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. 21 Feb 2012. "He's. [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. Mr Scargill staged the nationwide walkout without holding a strike ballot, an omission which fatally undermined public support for the NUM. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) So they shouldn't think they've scared me. But apparently not. Loyal Anne Scargill, 57, has moved out of the couple's luxury pounds 200,000 bungalow. [39], During the media controversy, the antiperspirant Mitchum used Scargill's image, without his consent, under the slogan "Mitchum, for when you're really sweating! A motion from the Kent area was passed by the NUM conference to move the head office to a coalfield. News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. Back at the NUM I have an appointment to meet Betty Cook and Anne Scargill, to discuss the 30th anniversary of the miners' strike of 1984-5, which began in Yorkshire during the opening days of March 1984. A PEACOCKING manchild lingering where the money is. 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. THE man set to marry the daughter of miners' leader Arthur Scargill was yesterday branded a love cheat - by his own daughter. Scargill admitted there was 'bad blood' between him and the NUM general secretary Chris Kitchen, who said, "I honestly do believe that Arthur, in his own world, believes that the NUM is here to afford him the lifestyle that he's become accustomed to. They're all talking about the bedroom tax, and not being able to afford a good meal." SMS: Ken Capstick, treasurer of the Socialist Labour Party which Arthur Scargill leads, sent the former union boss a text message reading: 'Thatcher Dead'. I thought: 'Well I've got to do it.' Shankland's and Hancock's life sentences for murder were reduced to eight years for manslaughter on appeal. "It's so hypocritical it's unreal," he said. 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. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, Margaret Thatcher didn't expect it, but miners' wives galvanised the '84 strike, Labour calls on government to apologise over miners' strike, Thelong, slow death of the UK coal industry, Thatcher had secret plan to use army at height of miners' strike, Theclosure of Maltby colliery in pictures, the horrific police violence seen at the Orgreave coking plant. Had he done the humble thing and walked away with what he were entitled to, his reputation would still be intact.". The one who very secretly tried for two decades to buy a council flat in Londons fashionable Barbican so he could pocket a fortune. 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. 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. "I shall never, ever forgive the police for doing that to me," she says. [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. The militant former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Well, he is, indispatches [laughs].". Do send more to kelvin@the-sun.co.uk. After his return to Britain, he joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. 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. 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. "We're going backwards, aren't we?" The Enemy Within", Verso 2014. 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. Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 19841985 miners' strike. [60][61], London Assembly elections (entire London city), "Scargill" redirects here. He injured himself acouple of years ago playing penalty shoot-out with his grandkids. "I've never, ever said owt. Its the next paragraph I found most interesting. Some strikers also believed the strike was against the constitution and denounced Scargill. I receive no reply. In 2014, it was reported that Scargill had become a recluse. However, by the time he grew up, the family was able to move to a better and more comfortable home. We now have a situation where the government and the establishment have a funeral on their hands which they wish they didnt have. Kitchen has said he believes Scargill is out to destroy the NUM. But he will not be drawn any further. They brought down Jim Callaghans Government. 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. Im shocked.. "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. [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. They divorced in 2001. His application was refused because the flat in the Barbican Estate's Shakespeare Tower was not Scargill's primary residence. 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. His father was also a loyal member of the Communist Party. The comments below have been moderated in advance. "[40] Scargill complained to the Advertising Standards Authority who criticised the advertisement as "highly distasteful". Scargill was the only child of his parents. Anne Scargill (left) and Betty Cook at the National Union of Mineworkers headquarters in Barnsley. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Herein, she says, lies a direct link to what she did three decades ago. 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. He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School). During this time, he earned the esteem of significant sections of the left and the British working class, who saw him as honest, hard-working and genuinely concerned with their welfare,[12] and he was also respected for improving the administration of the compensation agent's post. 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. Why should the leader of the Socialist Labour Party (a Corbyn ally naturally) be allowed to pocket a million? As the anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike approaches, its figurehead Arthur Scargill has become a recluse, at war with the current NUM leadership. Labours Lord Gilbert hailed Lady Thatchers good fortune in facing Mr Scargill. He then started working as a coal miner. Most of Arthur's money comes from being a politician. [9] When Bullough (unwell at the time) attempted to rule Scargill as "out of order", he was voted out by the area's delegates and a strike was declared across Yorkshire on the issue. [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. In 1961, Scargill was elected a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee. [54] He gave a rare television interview to ITV News at that time. . David Wilkie, who died instantly, leaving behind a 2 year old daughter and his pregnant fiancee who gave birth 6 weeks later. He tells me he's writing a book. If reports are true that British women volunteers are flocking to the Calais Jungle specifically to have sex with migrants, expect the camp to grow from the current 10,000 to the size of Africa in no time at all. "It was Thatcher's legislation, actually giving council tenants the right to buy their own houses. 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. Scargill was involved in a High Court case in 1978 that set a precedent in UK labour law, known as Roebuck v NUM (Yorkshire Area) No 2. 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. [53] He was not attending any of the events to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 strike at the NUM. [37] The prosecution brought by the Certification Officer was rejected in July 1991 on the grounds that it would be inappropriate to use the material provided in confidence to Lightman's enquiry. The strike ended on 3 March 1985 following an NUM vote to return to work. "He doesn't live lavishly, although he does like a glass of red wine. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. There's more to this new Arthur Scargill chic than mere fashion nostalgia. 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?] ", There follows the most illustrative of anecdotes. 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. A lot of conflict followed between the government and Scargill`s union. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the trade union movement. All net worths are calculated by applying a proprietary algorithm. So what is Arthur Scargill's salary per year? The NUM's general secretary is 47-year-old Chris Kitchen. So I knew Arthur didn't know. That house sits on the edge of Worsbrough, close to the pit village where Scargill was born. Scargill had condemned the killing at the time. 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". [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. 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Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. Privacy policy | Of all the people I can think of Scargill, is the least deserving of tenants. [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. 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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. "They asked me to relay that to him. Despite years of bitter battling with the Tories as they closed practically every mine in the early eighties, the bizarre u-turn by for the former union leader has been welcomed by the Conservatives. But an issue like that it wasn't easy to come to a compromise. (2004) "Al Richardson (19412003): An Appreciation", David Howell, et al. Thats what right-to-buy did for ordinary people. His mother, Alice (ne Pickering), was a professional cook. First, I ring the bell, to no avail, then usea door knocker in the shape of a miner's lamp. His eyes have sunk a little into his face; the voice is deeper and huskier than it once was. It's Mr (coffee) Bean! 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. Angry Stefni Logan revealed that her father James had dated his estranged wife Heather while romancing Dr Margaret Scargill. He wouldn't say another word. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. They divorced in 2001. Arthur Scargill is now 76. The man's had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. The following year, he also became a member of the Labour Party. ", Howell, David, et al. Arthur Scargill, I ask you. Downstairs in the NUM's waiting room there are flyers and posters advertising other events, complete with long lists of invited speakers. Back in 1993 he first tried to acquire the flat under Margaret Thatchers right-to-buy scheme. I cannot find parliamentary language to use to describe Arthur Scargill.. 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. 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. "I would have thought that someone who was public enemy number one, with MI5 tapping his calls and following him, and everything else they were allegedly doing to him I'm very surprised he managed to live the life hedid and get away with what he did without being pulled up," he says. 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. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. 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. [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. 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. He soon started demanding an improvement in the working conditions, and wrote letters to several agencies and newspapers. Several dispirited strikers decided to return to work after around a year, and the strike ended in a failure. . "[44] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. 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