However, by the time he grew up, the family was able to move to a better and more comfortable home. [14], The vast majority of head-office staff took redundancy rather than move to Sheffield. having received a 500,000 discount. He felt the need to fight for changes in the capitalist society, and vowed that he would work towards making the world more equitable. [37] Scargill reached an agreement to repay money to the NUM shortly after this. In 1958, he attended the World Federation of Trade Unions youth congress in Prague. a zero-hours contract. "[40] Scargill complained to the Advertising Standards Authority who criticised the advertisement as "highly distasteful". Let them eat cake! [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. They had one daughter named Margaret. But apparently not. Im massively in favour of the council sales and can well remember a friends father buying then selling his council house in Bromley, South East London, and having a fabulous retirement in Poole on the money. 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. [32] The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. 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. One of his closest associates is Ken Capstick, 73, who lives 20 minutes' drive from Barnsley in a quiet corner of Wakefield. Just to hammer the point home, it was in block capitals: "SCARGILL ALIVE! In 1990, Scargill was accused in a series of Daily Mirror articles of mishandling money donated for the striking miners during the 19841985 strike, with many of the sources being those who had previously worked with him in the NUM such as Kim Howells, Jim Parker and Roger Windsor. Mr Capstick told ITV News: Id been talking to Arthur some ten minutes earlier so I sent him a text message, a very short one, just said Thatcher dead. The 84-year-old British politician has done well thus far! By Tom Whitehead and Tomwhitehead. One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. Is it time Harry & Meghan accept Clarkson's apology and move on? He is 84 years old and is a Capricorn. 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. 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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 yesterday. Well, he is, indispatches [laughs].". The union now has just under 1,800 members, who work at a small handful of deep pits and open-cast mines, but its financial holdings are said to total around 20m, which Scargill's supporters say lies at the heart of their current battles. In 2012, the flat was valued at 1,500,000, and had 24/7 access to concierge services. . It is now worth around 2million. 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. Mr Scargill staged the nationwide walkout without holding a strike ballot, an omission which fatally undermined public support for the NUM. Angry Stefni Logan revealed that her father James had dated his estranged wife Heather while romancing Dr Margaret Scargill. "In the strike, he were never at home We didn't spend much time together that year," she says. [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. Photograph: Don Mcphee for the Guardian. Arthur Scargill wins 13,000 damages from National Union of Mineworkers. [53] He was not attending any of the events to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 strike at the NUM. I received one almost instantly saying Scargill alive! and hes very much alive. [9] This performance strengthened his popularity with the Yorkshire miners. 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! . Arthur had told me that under no circumstances was he going to give an interview. 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". Scargill, the former militant leader of. I hate all women. "I don't know what a deal would have been," he says. 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". "They asked me to relay that to him. Mr Logan, 42, is now business manager at the Ashville Medical Centre, in Barnsley, where Dr Scargill works as a GP. Back in 1993 he first tried to acquire the flat under Margaret Thatchers right-to-buy scheme. 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. But apparently not. But my father never forced me to be involved in politics at all.[5]. So does his son-in-law. They're all talking about the bedroom tax, and not being able to afford a good meal." To his detractors, by contrast, the fact that he understood what was at stake is no excuse for a series of elemental mistakes that sealed his union's fate and marked a huge turning point in postwar history. An article published in The Times in August 2015 stated that Scargill had spoken to the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union conference in June 2015, and that he was due to appear alongside Jeremy Corbyn at the Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign in September 2015. "[28] This was in the Prime Minister's rejection of Labour calls for an apology for government actions during the 19841985 miners' strike. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". 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. That couldnt be true as she announced after the series ended she was gay. We stood and fought against enormous odds, and not just for the pits for our way of life. It's Mr (coffee) Bean! 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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Star Lenny a victim in privacy scandal; OPERATION MOTORMAN: Funnyman one of host of celebs in security breach. He went on to be elected president of the NUM from. 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. For webmasters |. Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. : A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.". Milne, Seumas. " Had he done the humble thing and walked away with what he were entitled to, his reputation would still be intact.". "I was either on a picket line, or in a soup kitchen. 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. 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. Prince Albert of Monaco is the first Euro monarch to confirm he and his wife Keep calm and carry on! We've got food banks now, but they're doing clothing banks for children and babies as well.". Not very often the CEO of such a large company would admit there was work to be done and it means my gripe must be mirrored in their customer research. My mother was strictly non-political. 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. Along with Tony Benn, veteran left-wing MP from the Labour Party, he campaigned to free the two strikers Russell Shankland and Dean Hancock, who were convicted of killing a taxi driver named David Wilkie. He injured himself acouple of years ago playing penalty shoot-out with his grandkids. He was defeated on both occasions. His first point was that he is not an accountant (I got that wrong) but an engineer by training and that he has worked in the airline industry all his life. And did we win that? It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the trade union movement. Chris Kitchen said: "I would say it's time to walk away, Mr Scargill. Instead she went on aspokesmansaid.com and Axa covered her for 343, a saving of 424. In the 2001 general election, he ran against Peter Mandelson in Hartlepool. . He belonged to a poor family, who lived in a house with neither electricity nor plumbing. (2004) "Al Richardson (19412003): An Appreciation", David Howell, et al. Beaming Queen Consort Camilla visits the University of Aberdeen as she returns to Take note, Prince Harry! "He's estranged from his ex-wife. ", There follows the most illustrative of anecdotes. 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'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. He listens to all this with an air of mild amusement. [38], Film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series. For other uses, see, Early political and trade union activities. "I've never, ever said owt. Shankland's and Hancock's life sentences for murder were reduced to eight years for manslaughter on appeal. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. I drove the picket bus. He keeps a home close to the pit village where he was born, and is said to be close to Nell Myers, the American-born woman who was the NUM's national press officer during the strike, and continues to assist Scargill in his political and media dealings. Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 19841985 miners' strike. ", R.R. I sent a message it was 10,000. [53], Scargill still occasionally gives interviews and makes appearances. So they shouldn't think they've scared me. And he's done very well out of it.". https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dear+Arthur+Scargill%2c+before+you+let+your+daughter+marry+my+love-+rat-a060693318. Scargill was divorced from his activist wife Anne in 2001. Several dispirited strikers decided to return to work after around a year, and the strike ended in a failure. Wheat it and weep! The Yorkshire native is the son of a miner, who. "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. On his first day, he was horrified to see the working conditions. They said: 'How about 15,000?' All net worths are calculated by applying a proprietary algorithm. British trade unionist Arthur Scargill marching with his wife Anne and other miners' wives during a protest in London, UK, 12th August 1984. Scargill subsequently decided to move to Sheffield, and said that he had spoken to each member of staff to ask them to move to Sheffield. Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. It's always those lower down who are suffering. [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. Herein, she says, lies a direct link to what she did three decades ago. They had one daughter named Margaret. That's what I believe.". He was succeeded by Ian Lavery. 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. Published: 23:21 GMT, 11 April 2013 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 12 April 2013. It is only after I leave the NUM's HQ for the last time that one striking fact hits home. Downstairs in the NUM's waiting room there are flyers and posters advertising other events, complete with long lists of invited speakers. Kitchen has said he believes Scargill is out to destroy the NUM. [5] In 1957 he was elected NUM Yorkshire Area Youth Delegate, and attended the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow as a representative of the Yorkshire miners. "Now, good day to you." 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. HAVING just been charged 349.20 to replace a rear brake light unit on my Mercedes ML 250. [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. Most of Arthur's money comes from being a politician. IVE heard from Ron The Guvnor who on receiving his car renewal of 755 for his BMW an increase of 300 without a claim told his insurers they had a good chance of appearing in my column unless there was a reduction. 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