[54] He gave a rare television interview to ITV News at that time. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Some of the cash was provided by his daughter Dr Margaret Scargill. I receive no reply. 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. 21 Feb 2012. 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. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. His mother, Alice (ne Pickering), was a professional cook. But his victory is in the struggle itself. [35] Negotiations between Scargill and the NUM took place in France. On his first day, he was horrified to see the working conditions. But it emerged last night that Ken Capstick, treasurer of the Socialist Labour Party which Arthur Scargill leads, sent the former union boss a text message on Monday reading: Thatcher Dead. The strike began on 12 March 1984, and became known for being one of the most violent events in British labour history. In 2016 it was reported that the grandfather of two was living in a three-bedroom detached country house in Yorkshire owned by his. It was all or nothing. "[28] This was in the Prime Minister's rejection of Labour calls for an apology for government actions during the 19841985 miners' strike. It's too soon to say.". 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. On a nearby mantelpiece is a small pink calendar, filling up with dates: academic seminars, radio shows, outdoor festivals and more. Arthur Scargill destroyed many lives with his attitude and his . A motion from the Kent area was passed by the NUM conference to move the head office to a coalfield. IN Fridays column I was critical of my British Airways flight to New York where both the food and service were poor. Dr Margaret Scargill has announced her plans to marry former Grimethorpe Colliery under-manager James Logan. His daughter is in leg braces and takes tenuous steps into parliament, while members shake her hand . He smiles. Arthur Scargill at a mass rally in 1984, during his time as NUM leader (PA) Margaret Thatcher: . We stood and fought against enormous odds, and not just for the pits for our way of life. Scargill must be very proud that his campaigning had the convictions downgraded to manslaughter and both men released from prison in November 1989. . Mr Scargill first came to prominence in the early 1970s, when he was involved in a mass picket at the Saltley Gate coking plant in Birmingham. "He doesn't live lavishly, although he does like a glass of red wine. [52], The Guardian in February 2014 said that Scargill had become a recluse. For other inquiries, Contact Us. McIlroy, J. Arthur Scargill wins 13,000 damages from National Union of Mineworkers. He played a significant role in the unofficial strike of UK miners in 1969. The NUM's general secretary is 47-year-old Chris Kitchen. 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. 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Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. Hundreds of strikers were arrested, including Scargill and his wife. I hate all women. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dear+Arthur+Scargill%2c+before+you+let+your+daughter+marry+my+love-+rat-a060693318. Self defense expert shares live-saving hacks for evading ALL kinds of attacks - from cutting Do not sell or share my personal information. Their life sentences were eventually reduced to eight years. How will she write a book like that while somehow keeping him out of the story? 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). Hero of the working classes, Arthur Scargill, has joined the Conservative Party after they allowed the opening of a new coal mine in Cumbria. He had been a Communist and retained strong Marxist views and a penchant for denouncing anyone who disagreed with him as a traitor Scargill had indeed been elected by a vast margin and he set about turning the NUM's once moderate executive into a reliably militant group By adopting a position that no pits should be closed on economic grounds, even if the coal was exhausted more investment would always find more coal, and from his point of view, the losses were irrelevant he made sure confrontation would not be avoided. And I got a reply." "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. Shankland's and Hancock's life sentences for murder were reduced to eight years for manslaughter on appeal. 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. Scargill had condemned the killing at the time. [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. 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. They'll probably be 10 or 11 now.". Cold, hard facts about how freezing winter weather can harm your health. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. It's Mr (coffee) Bean! 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. [14], Scargill was a very vocal opponent of Thatcher's Conservative government, frequently appearing on television to attack it. But his daughter visits him regularly. He is best known for leading the UK miners' strike (1984-85), a major event in the history of the British labour movement. [3] [9][11], A few months later, the president of the Yorkshire NUM died unexpectedly, and Scargill won the election for his replacement; the two posts were then combined and he held them until 1981. Anne, in 2001 and reportedly refused to attend the wedding of his daughter Margaret. 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. Feedback | From an early age, Arthur used to read books such as The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, where he learnt about starvation and injustice as well as courage as well as nobility of the working classes. 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". It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Scargill's girl to wed pit axeman; Doc Margaret falls for 'enemy'. 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. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian, Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the NUM, at the union's headquarters in Barnsley. Loyal Anne Scargill, 57, has moved out of the couple's luxury pounds 200,000 bungalow. THE man set to marry the daughter of miners' leader Arthur Scargill was yesterday branded a love cheat - by his own daughter. They're all talking about the bedroom tax, and not being able to afford a good meal." 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. [18], Miners were split between those who supported the strike and those who opposed it (see Union of Democratic Mineworkers). 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. [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. A lot of other people on the National Executive at that time went on and became very respectable Labour MPs in Parliament. [53], Scargill still occasionally gives interviews and makes appearances. 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. Published: 23:21 GMT, 11 April 2013 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 12 April 2013. He became a member of the Woolley NUM Branch Committee, in 1961. (The Yorkshire Left had already decided to stand him as their candidate even before the strike.) Anne Scargill (left) and Betty Cook at the National Union of Mineworkers headquarters in Barnsley. ", Old Labour party constiturion, Clause 4 part IV, Yorkshire Area of the National Union of Mineworkers, "Arthur Scargill joins Battle of Saltley Gate 40th anniversary celebration", "The Nottinghamshire Miners, The Union of Democratic Mineworkers and the 198485 Miners' Strike: Scabs or Scapegoats? 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. 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? 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". But an issue like that it wasn't easy to come to a compromise. 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. A PEACOCKING manchild lingering where the money is. They need this like a hole in the head.. [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. 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. However, in 1979, the Conservatives were able to win again under Margaret Thatcher, and destroy the majority of the Labour Party. Arthur had told me that under no circumstances was he going to give an interview. So I sent an email, and the 7,000 was rejected. 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. Mr Logan, 42, is now business manager at the Ashville Medical Centre, in Barnsley, where Dr Scargill works as a GP. The political power of the NUM and of most British trade unions was severely reduced. Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. 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. He was on television all the time: a charismatic character. 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. "I was either on a picket line, or in a soup kitchen. ", There follows the most illustrative of anecdotes. Im shocked.. And this is why. "One day last year, I was talking to him on the phone. Scargill was often accompanied by his then wife Anne Harper to speak at picket lines and to media appearances; Harper was simultaneously involved in founding and leading the National Women Against Pit Closures movement. Photograph: Don Mcphee for the Guardian. [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. He felt that the Labour Party had betrayed the basic principles of the party`s constitution. "It's so hypocritical it's unreal," he said. The strike started in Yorkshire, and he was not present at the delegate Council meeting in Barnsley. Scargill, along with veteran left-wing Labour MP Tony Benn, campaigned to free strikers Russell Shankland and Dean Hancock from prison. His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. 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