One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. Scargill and his wife Anne, herself a miner's daughter and an active organizer of miners' groups, had one daughter, Margaret. He was on television all the time: a charismatic character. 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. Five seconds later, the door creaks open, and there he is: the man who onceparried the huge forces of British industrial history, dressed in a white-and-blue check shirt and light blue denim trousers. ", There follows the most illustrative of anecdotes. 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. [38], Film director Ken Loach subsequently made "The Arthur Legend" as part of Channel 4's Dispatches series. Privacy policy | He very, very rarely came home, 'cos he was always in the offices or organising things. ARTHUR SCARGILL has two faces. We went in search of Yorkshire's living legend and found him, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Arthur Scargill leads picketing miners at Orgreave, 1984. Herein, she says, lies a direct link to what she did three decades ago. Arthur Scargill was born in England, United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 11, 1938 (Silent Generation). Some of the cash was provided by his daughter Dr Margaret Scargill. 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. [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. Here as elsewhere in post-industrial Yorkshire, the surrounding landscape attests to what arrived instead. Some scholars have concluded that Scargill's decisive tactical error was to substitute his famous flying picket for the holding of a national strike ballot. The man's had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. In 2014, it was reported that Scargill had become a recluse. "Yes. (2004) "Al Richardson (19412003): An Appreciation", David Howell, et al. Arthur Scargill's name is on the list of union officials that adorns one wall, but that is it: among the banners, memorabilia and countless images of the strike, he is nowhere to be seen. "It's sad to be inthis position. He smiles. A lot of conflict followed between the government and Scargill`s union. [32] The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. So does his son-in-law. And did we win that? [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. His daughter is in leg braces and takes tenuous steps into parliament, while members shake her hand . 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. 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. 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. Most of Arthur's money comes from being a politician. The miners` strike of 1974 eventually brought down the Conservative government of Edward Heath. [55], In 2017, Scargill spoke at an event in Cardiff setting out how British manufacturing could be rebuilt after Britain had left the European Union. 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. Some historians have provided interpretations and explanations of the defeat. 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. We stood and fought against enormous odds, and not just for the pits for our way of life. 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. 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. The fight was a political one, as well. In the 1997 general election, he ran against Alan Howarth, a defector from the Conservative Party to Labour, who had been given the safe seat of Newport East to contest. He lives a normal sort of a life. They cut it by 255. 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. 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. Elegant Princess of Wales is all smiles as she plays with children on visit to a nursery amid backlash over Thrifty Kate strikes again! For other inquiries, Contact Us. "Five years ago, when I first started, if we got 30 or 40, we thought we'd got a lot," she says. By Tom Whitehead and Tomwhitehead. 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HAVING just been charged 349.20 to replace a rear brake light unit on my Mercedes ML 250. 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. His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. Campbell, Adrian, and Malcolm Warner. For webmasters |. "I've never, ever said owt. 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. 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. All rights reserved. Anne, in 2001 and reportedly refused to attend the wedding of his daughter Margaret. Does she think she ever will talk about him? A secret record is kept of the time at which all workers arrive and leave each day. This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 23:47. [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. He injured himself acouple of years ago playing penalty shoot-out with his grandkids. [41], In 1993, Scargill tried to use Thatcher's flagship Right to Buy scheme to buy a flat on the Barbican estate in central London. He has his relatives around him, his two grandsons ". 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. {{ #verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ ^verifyErrors }}Something went wrong. Lady Thatchers victories over Mr Scargill in the miners strike and Argentine dictator General Galtieri in the Falklands war were hailed by her supporters as the two key moments of her premiership when they paid tribute in Parliament on Wednesday. In January 2014, the Prime Minister, David Cameron stated, "I think if anyone needs to make an apology for their role in the miners' strike it should be Arthur Scargill for the appalling way that he led the union. You couldnt make this up. [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. He left school in 1953 at fifteen years old to work as a coal miner at Woolley Colliery, where he worked for nineteen years.[2][3]. Those are great saving stories. One by one, he bats away the standard criticisms of Scargill's leadership of the strike: that it was ill-advised to commence the strike in the spring, that he should have held a national ballot ("The miners weren't calling for a ballot the people who were calling for a ballot were our enemies"), and that in returning to work without an agreement, the miners were left in an impossible position. Although he never worked at Barrow Colliery in his home village, he was involved in the politics of the branch, where the membership was much more left-wing than in the conservative Woolley Colliery. 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. Many of the details are too complex and arcane to comprehensively explain, let alone understand, though some of what has emerged from all this tussling has been manna from heaven to those sections of the press who would have their readers believe that Scargill's reputation is beyond repair. We've got food banks now, but they're doing clothing banks for children and babies as well.". In time he and his family moved to a more comfortable, modern home in the town where he grew up. It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated. 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. He listens to all this with an air of mild amusement. It was a major political victory for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. "And I tell you summat: when I come out of there, I thought to myself, 'Right they can't do owt any worse to me now. They had one daughter named Margaret. [33], In July 1990, the NUM executive voted unanimously to sue Scargill and general secretary Peter Heathfield. Arthur Scargill faces an inquiry by his former union into his bargain purchase of a 2m council flat in one of London's most prestigious developments. And then there is the real Arthur Scargill. But his victory is in the struggle itself. Was it an investment by her so she cleans up when he dies? [8], Scargill was a leader of the unofficial strike in 1969, which began in Yorkshire and spread across the country. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Arthur Scargill at a mass rally in 1984, during his time as NUM leader (PA) Margaret Thatcher: . "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. ', Mr Scargill replied simply: Scargill Alive!. Unlike the strikes in the 1970s, the later strike ended with the miners' defeat and the Thatcher government was able to consolidate its fiscally conservative programme. Arthur Scargill was married to Anne Scargill, who is herself the daughter of a miner. 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. Written authorization is required for the purchase of tea and coffee. He went on to be elected president of the NUM from. Arthur Scargill acquired a lease on the flat around 1982, when he became president of the NUM, as the the union was then based in London, though Scargill soon moved its headquarters to Sheffield . [60][61], London Assembly elections (entire London city), "Scargill" redirects here. My mother was strictly non-political. 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. 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. "I shall never, ever forgive the police for doing that to me," she says. There aretwo security cameras fixed to the front wall, and all the blinds are closed. In 1964, he was also elected representative to the Yorkshire area meetings. He was defeated on both occasions. 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. Scargill won widespread applause for his response to the disaster at Lofthouse Colliery in Outwood, West Yorkshire, at which he accompanied the rescue teams underground and was on site for six days with the relatives of the seven deceased. However, by the time he grew up, the family was able to move to a better and more comfortable home. They brought into office the Government of Lady Thatcher. [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. Downstairs in the NUM's waiting room there are flyers and posters advertising other events, complete with long lists of invited speakers. Photograph: Don Mcphee for the Guardian. Of all the people I can think of Scargill, is the least deserving of tenants. Scargill joined the Labour Party in 1962. [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. He took a part-time course as well at the University of Leeds. And as Iwas in the area, it would be remiss of me not to knock on his door. Most viewed. Even Muslim groups think the idea is mad. "Goodbye to all that? He may still lose. The NUM's general secretary is 47-year-old Chris Kitchen. 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