He has contested two parliamentary elections. [56], In July 2021 he spoke at the Rebel Town Festival in Jarrow. I said: 'I'll pass it on. Arthur Scargill opinion Leon Brittan was the shadowy power behind Margaret Thatcher's war on the miners Leon Brittan Arthur Scargill returns to Orgreave site where he was ''knocked unconscious. [14], The vast majority of head-office staff took redundancy rather than move to Sheffield. However, by the time he grew up, the family was able to move to a better and more comfortable home. Further afield, amid great stretches of empty space, you find places that seem to be clinging on by their very fingertips, such as the former pit village of Goldthorpe, stranded halfway between Barnsley and Doncaster. 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. offers Cook. This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 23:47. Robert Taylor depicts Scargill as an 'industrial Napoleon' who called a strike 'at the wrong time' on the 'wrong issue', and adopted strategies and tactics that were 'impossibilist', with 'an inflexible list of extravagant non-negotiable demands' that amounted to 'reckless adventurism' that was 'a dangerous, self-defeating delusion'. It is only after I leave the NUM's HQ for the last time that one striking fact hits home. 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. For webmasters |. "One day last year, I was talking to him on the phone. That violence strengthened the stature of the Coal Board and the Thatcher government. Privacy policy | Scargill, the former militant leader of. Scargill must be very proud that his campaigning had the convictions downgraded to manslaughter and both men released from prison in November 1989. . One of his closest associates is Ken Capstick, 73, who lives 20 minutes' drive from Barnsley in a quiet corner of Wakefield. He was 17 at the time of the strike, and an active picketer, in Yorkshire and elsewhere. Scargill led the union in the 19841985 miners' strike. [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. 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. [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. 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. Mention of him draws a quick response. Why Arthur Scargill is reluctant to leave his 1.5m Barbican flat The National Union of Mineworkers is fed up of forking out for their former president, but he clearly likes his home among the. [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. He has his relatives around him, his two grandsons ". 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. Of all the people I can think of Scargill, is the least deserving of tenants. 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. I had a job at the Co-op. He listens to all this with an air of mild amusement. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. "He's OK," says Capstick. He then started working as a coal miner. [32] The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. Scargill and his wife Anne, herself a miner's daughter and an active organizer of miners' groups, had one daughter, Margaret. 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. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Harper married Arthur Scargill, who was also an elected member of the Trade Union branch committee at Woolley Colliery, at Gawber Parish Church on 16 September 1961. Downstairs in the NUM's waiting room there are flyers and posters advertising other events, complete with long lists of invited speakers. His eyes have sunk a little into his face; the voice is deeper and huskier than it once was. 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. 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. 'To say that is in no way to diminish her achievements and accomplishments. Scargill opposed civilian nuclear power and, during the first Wilson ministry, became highly critical of the government's energy policy. He can either cower down and take his beating, or he can stand and fight, and hope to maybe land a few punches. Kitchen has said he believes Scargill is out to destroy the NUM. The flat on the 25th floor had previously been rented to him as a perk of his job as leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Scargill was divorced from his activist wife Anne in 2001. MINERS' leader Arthur Scargill has left his wife after 37 years, it was revealed last night. And now he's ditched all that. Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who used to be the president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Hanging on a door facing the back garden is a fluorescent jacket. "In the strike, he were never at home We didn't spend much time together that year," she says. He did not. After the miners' strike in 1984, there were accusations that Arthur Scargill had misappropriated National Union of Mineworkers funds and that money which sh. . People have said things about him and his affairs, and it's only fair that he should be given a chance to respond. 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. The strike began on 12 March 1984, and became known for being one of the most violent events in British labour history. Yet that has not stopped the ardent communist exploiting one of her flagship policies. They cut it by 255. 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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. "Now, good day to you." Its the next paragraph I found most interesting. They need this like a hole in the head.. Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dies at . They still pay 3,500 a year towards the upkeep of his Yorkshire home as they believed it was his main home. Wilsher, Peter, Donald Macintyre, and Michael CE Jones, eds. 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 have since received an email from Alex Cruz, the chief executive and chairman of BA, apologising for my experience. It's too soon to say.". On a nearby mantelpiece is a small pink calendar, filling up with dates: academic seminars, radio shows, outdoor festivals and more. [53] He was not attending any of the events to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 strike at the NUM. We now have a situation where the government and the establishment have a funeral on their hands which they wish they didnt have. Some strikers also believed the strike was against the constitution and denounced Scargill. They need this like a hole in the head', They expected, particularly Master Scargill, to bring down her Government, too. I don't know how far he's got. 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. 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. 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