Let them eat cake! Scargill opposed civilian nuclear power and, during the first Wilson ministry, became highly critical of the government's energy policy. But an issue like that it wasn't easy to come to a compromise. Scargill must be very proud that his campaigning had the convictions downgraded to manslaughter and both men released from prison in November 1989. . 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! 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. Even his own union are up in arms at the purchase. 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 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. [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. In 2014, it was reported that Scargill had become a recluse. 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. [53] He was not attending any of the events to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 strike at the NUM. ", She then shoots me a look. 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. 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. 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. A former Labour Party member, Scargill is now leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), founded by him in 1996. The miners` strike of 1974 eventually brought down the Conservative government of Edward Heath. I think we should be told. We've got food banks now, but they're doing clothing banks for children and babies as well.". But apparently not. [21] Many politicians, including the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock, believed Scargill had made a huge mistake in calling the strike in the summer rather than in the winter. Advertisement Further Reading on Arthur Scargill The best work on Scargill was Michael Crick, Scargill and the Miners (1985). In the 2001 general election, he ran against Peter Mandelson in Hartlepool. "[44] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. Scargill was divorced from his activist wife Anne in 2001. All rights reserved. He contested twice, in the 1997 general election, as well as the 2001 general election. 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. ", R.R. But his victory is in the struggle itself. Simon Cole, the Chief Constable of Leicestershire has followed the West Midlands Chief Constable and said he would consider Muslim officers wishes to wear burkas. 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. If you're out for a wage increase, you can cut a deal. And yesterday, do you know what? In the 1981 election for NUM president, Scargill secured around 70% of the vote. I suggest to this Conference that we have coal mines with us but they did something about this problem: they closed them down. 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[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. 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. 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. [18], Miners were split between those who supported the strike and those who opposed it (see Union of Democratic Mineworkers). 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". We now have a situation where the government and the establishment have a funeral on their hands which they wish they didnt have. 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. [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. So how is he? Soon, he also made his first attempt to win political office in a local council election, though he was defeated. [8], Scargill was a leader of the unofficial strike in 1969, which began in Yorkshire and spread across the country. This eventually led to the strike of 1984, when the government announced that they intend to close 20 coal mines. Does she think she ever will talk about him? Thats what right-to-buy did for ordinary people. A lot of conflict followed between the government and Scargill`s union. So what is Arthur Scargill's salary per year? Just to hammer the point home, it was in block capitals: "SCARGILL ALIVE! Arthur Scargill was born in England, United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 11, 1938 (Silent Generation). A motion from the Kent area was passed by the NUM conference to move the head office to a coalfield. "He doesn't live lavishly, although he does like a glass of red wine. [37], The South Wales area leader, Des Dutfield, moved that Scargill should stand down and face re-election, but the motion was defeated. "If you've got a young lad at school and he's being bullied, and he comes out of school at the end of the day and the bully is waiting for him, to give him a good hiding the bully may be bigger than him, but he has a choice. 6 teaches true compassion and empathy. says Scargill. Arthur's dad lived with us as well: there were me, Arthur, Margaret [their daughter] and Arthur's dad. 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. ", Howell, David, et al. 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. They lived in the house Scargill grew up in Worsborough, South Yorkshire. I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. 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. [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. 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Anne, in 2001 and reportedly refused to attend the wedding of his daughter Margaret. [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. 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. He felt the need to fight for changes in the capitalist society, and vowed that he would work towards making the world more equitable. 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. So our conscience is clear. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. 21 Feb 2012. He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School). As the militant leader of the miners, Arthur Scargill fought Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. He can either cower down and take his beating, or he can stand and fight, and hope to maybe land a few punches. 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". having received a 500,000 discount. He played an important role in the miners' strike of 1972 and was involved in the mass picket at Saltley Gate in Birmingham. 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". THE man set to marry the daughter of miners' leader Arthur Scargill was yesterday branded a love cheat - by his own daughter. He wouldn't say another word. When remembering this, she brims with the same rage she must have felt at the time. I received one almost instantly saying Scargill alive! and hes very much alive. 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. 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. Coles worker fights a woman allegedly trying to steal groceries, Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions. British trade unionist Arthur Scargill marching with his wife Anne and other miners' wives during a protest in London, UK, 12th August 1984. "Destroy everything, and create a 'me-me-me' class. 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 first step, it says "nationalisation"; after that comes "the five-day week", "social security", "family allowances", "health and peace", and "prosperity and happiness". ", "And that," says Capstick, "was the only thing he said about Thatcher. So that was my initial introduction into socialism and into political militancy. "The way I would put that is this," he says. It's Mr (coffee) Bean! The sneak has tried to pocket a smallfortune while proclaiming to be the great fighter against the evils of capitalism and the elite. There, he met Russian leaders such as Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. He did not. "At least Women Against Pit Closures tried to do something to prevent it happening. of the other candidates claimed that they were given very little time to prepare. a zero-hours contract. The strike started in Yorkshire, and he was not present at the delegate Council meeting in Barnsley. Its the next paragraph I found most interesting. "He's. "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. "It's strange, because Arthur was a media person. 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. You've been found out. [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 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. He arrived at the colliery to find he could not get into his office because someone had super-glued the door shut. My father was a Communist. IN Fridays column I was critical of my British Airways flight to New York where both the food and service were poor. A smile. Was it an investment by her so she cleans up when he dies? They'll probably be 10 or 11 now.". [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. He's also claimed that "many" people now believe that Scargill has turned out to be as bad as Margaret Thatcher. ARTHUR SCARGILL has two faces. 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. I were 42, me. Arthur Scargill, the son and grandson of coal miners, was born in Worsborough, South Yorkshire, in 1938. And this is why. [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. 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