He was the representative of the Yorkshire miners. 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. 21 Feb 2012. As the militant leader of the miners, Arthur Scargill fought Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s. Arthur Scargill's net worth estimate is $100,000 - $1M. He has his relatives around him, his two grandsons ". It is now worth around 2million. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. 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. [54] He gave a rare television interview to ITV News at that time. Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. The power is amazing. There aretwo security cameras fixed to the front wall, and all the blinds are closed. A former Labour Party member, Scargill is now leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), founded by him in 1996. Even his own union are up in arms at the purchase. So how is he? 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. Scargill decided to turn his attention to politics. Scargills trickery and hypocrisy coupled with the startling revelation that Labours Shadow minister for preventing violence Sarah Champion was arrested and put in a police cell accused of assault after a violent row with her husband back in 2007 and you can see Socialisms mantra is simple: Do as I say not as I do. 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. Scargill joined the organization in 1955, and within some months, he was able to become a member of the organization`s executive board. "Don't you think I've done enough without him?". 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. We've got food banks now, but they're doing clothing banks for children and babies as well.". "Goodbye to all that? A motion from the Kent area was passed by the NUM conference to move the head office to a coalfield. I think if it had been made public before then there'd have been a huge outcry. [26], There is a prevailing view that Arthur Scargill, the NUM National President, called the strike. Every Monday, she says, she helps out a local church project that gives free breakfasts to whoever shows up. [37], The South Wales area leader, Des Dutfield, moved that Scargill should stand down and face re-election, but the motion was defeated. [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. Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938)[1] is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. That violence strengthened the stature of the Coal Board and the Thatcher government. 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. In May 2009, he was a candidate for the Socialist Labour Party for one of London's seats in the European Parliament. The comments below have been moderated in advance. They're all talking about the bedroom tax, and not being able to afford a good meal." Another column reader, Sandra from Pinner, North West London, was quoted 767 to renew her car insurance by Direct Line. His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. I think people would be astounded if they knew that."[42]. Arthur Scargill was born on 11th January 1938, in Worsbrough Dale, in South Yorkshire, England, into a family of coal miners. . 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. [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. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dear+Arthur+Scargill%2c+before+you+let+your+daughter+marry+my+love-+rat-a060693318. Most of Arthur's money comes from being a politician. says Scargill. We got 111. 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. But his daughter visits him regularly. ", ITN, he claims, offered Scargill 7,000 for a five-minute interview. I were 42, me. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. And now he's ditched all that. My mother was strictly non-political. Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". On his first day, he was horrified to see the working conditions. They had one daughter named Margaret. Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, dies at . 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. Back in 1993 he first tried to acquire the flat under Margaret Thatchers right-to-buy scheme. [19] The NUM had previously held three ballots on a national strike, all of which rejected the proposal: 55% voted against in January 1982, and 61% voted against in both October 1982 and March 1983.[20]. Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. 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. 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. But apparently not. I've always said that if Arthur can no longer control the NUM, he'll try and destroy it. A lot of conflict followed between the government and Scargill`s union. 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. Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. A former miner and vice-president of the Yorkshire NUM, he now serves as the treasurer of the Socialist Labour Party, the would-be challenger to Tony Blair that Scargill founded in 1996, whose membership has since dwindled to around 300. I've never criticised Arthur for what he did during the strike, because I didn't know the ins and out of it at the time. 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. His daughter is in leg braces and takes tenuous steps into parliament, while members shake her hand . [52], The Guardian in February 2014 said that Scargill had become a recluse. An email came back: 'No.' 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. Mr Scargill staged the nationwide walkout without holding a strike ballot, an omission which fatally undermined public support for the NUM. He tells me he's writing a book. The names of all incoming telephone callers are recorded on a central log. Capstick a genial, soft-spoken man, whose disposition rather belies the rock-solid certainties of his politics talks to me for well over two hours. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM. So I sent an email, and the 7,000 was rejected. 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. One he enjoys showing the world: The great trade unionist, the great Socialist, the great fighter against the evils of capitalism, the man who would walk 1,000. If you're out for a wage increase, you can cut a deal. [9] This performance strengthened his popularity with the Yorkshire miners. Meryl Streep is the invented wife of Arthur Scargill who believes his commitment to the miner's rights is straining their marriage and taking a toll on their daughter. That couldnt be true as she announced after the series ended she was gay. 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. Hero of the working classes, Arthur Scargill, has joined the Conservative Party after they allowed the opening of a new coal mine in Cumbria. Former miners' leader Arthur Scargill loses his High Court fight to have the NUM continue to meet the costs of his London flat for his lifetime. He also had an important role in the `Battle of Saltley Gate, that closed Birmingham`s Saltley coke depot. The two men had been convicted of the murder of David Wilkie, a taxi driver, by throwing a block of concrete from a bridge onto his car. [18], Miners were split between those who supported the strike and those who opposed it (see Union of Democratic Mineworkers). [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. 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. He said he had been in the job five months and hopes to deliver strong consumer-friendly messages and services as I get a good hold on this fantastic company which has a lot of things to do to regain the position it once held.. In 2016 it was reported that the grandfather of two was living in a three-bedroom detached country house in Yorkshire owned by his. Terms of use |
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 . He was succeeded by Ian Lavery. [32] The documentary suggests that the claims against Scargill were untrue. 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One of the main planks of his platform was to give more power to union conferences than to executive meetings, on the grounds that the former were more democratic. . His eyes have sunk a little into his face; the voice is deeper and huskier than it once was. He was 17 at the time of the strike, and an active picketer, in Yorkshire and elsewhere. We did soup kitchens. They'll probably be 10 or 11 now.". 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. Was it an investment by her so she cleans up when he dies? To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. [39], During the media controversy, the antiperspirant Mitchum used Scargill's image, without his consent, under the slogan "Mitchum, for when you're really sweating! Staff members suddenly taken ill, or with long-standing medical appointments, require his personal consent to be absent from the office. . 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