"I would have thought that someone who was public enemy number one, with MI5 tapping his calls and following him, and everything else they were allegedly doing to him I'm very surprised he managed to live the life hedid and get away with what he did without being pulled up," he says. News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. A lot of other people on the National Executive at that time went on and became very respectable Labour MPs in Parliament. Chris Kitchen said: "I would say it's time to walk away, Mr Scargill. He soon started demanding an improvement in the working conditions, and wrote letters to several agencies and newspapers. The NUM says the money is being used to defend what remains of the coal industry and help both its members and former miners. "The way I would put that is this," he says. The hidden ingredient in your supermarket loaf that might put you off bread for good. 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. Scargill never balloted NUM members for a strike; this was seen as an erosion of democracy within the union, but the role of ballots in decision-making had been made very unclear after previous leader, Joe Gormley, had ignored two ballots over wage reforms, and his decisions had been upheld after appeals to court were made. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. offers Cook. 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". 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. Back at the NUM I have an appointment to meet Betty Cook and Anne Scargill, to discuss the 30th anniversary of the miners' strike of 1984-5, which began in Yorkshire during the opening days of March 1984. "Leadership in the Miners Union-Scargill, Arthur Rise to Power. 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. He also represented the Barnsley Co-op at Cooperative congresses. Half our time is spent discussing the strike and its aftermath; for the remainder, the two of them talk about what has happened to the place where they live since then. [60][61], London Assembly elections (entire London city), "Scargill" redirects here. I cannot find parliamentary language to use to describe Arthur Scargill.. He was the representative of the Yorkshire miners. Scargill admitted there was 'bad blood' between him and the NUM general secretary Chris Kitchen, who said, "I honestly do believe that Arthur, in his own world, believes that the NUM is here to afford him the lifestyle that he's become accustomed to. 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. [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. For reasons that are not entirely clear as he has a home in Yorkshire he has now bought the flat for 1,050,000 (where did he get that money from?) But his daughter visits him regularly. His hair is much thinner than it was 30 years ago. [21] Many politicians, including the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock, believed Scargill had made a huge mistake in calling the strike in the summer rather than in the winter. Arthur Scargill celebrated that he had outlived his old foe Lady Thatcher when he heard of her death, it was revealed last night. He also became known in the 1972 strike, where he was the spokesman for the Yorkshire miners. "[46] Kitchen says that Scargill "has had 30 years of decent living out of the union, and he's got a pension that's second to none. An email came back: 'No.' We are no longer accepting comments on this article. [9] Scargill saw this strike as a turning point in the union's attitude to militancy.[10]. "They asked me to relay that to him. The sneak has tried to pocket a smallfortune while proclaiming to be the great fighter against the evils of capitalism and the elite. All rights reserved. A secret record is kept of the time at which all workers arrive and leave each day. 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. Baroness Thatcher was very lucky,' he said. Labours Lord Gilbert hailed Lady Thatchers good fortune in facing Mr Scargill. The one who very secretly tried for two decades to buy a council flat in Londons fashionable Barbican so he could pocket a fortune. He did not take the Eleven-Plus exam and went to Worsbrough Dale School (now called the Elmhirst School). Photograph: Don Mcphee for the Guardian. What would have become of our democracy had they succeeded?. And yesterday, do you know what? Scargill had, before becoming president, favoured moving the head office of the NUM out of London, which he described as a "prostituting place". And he's done very well out of it.". 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. Arthur Scargill, the union boss who led the 1984 miner's strike, reacted to the death of Margaret Thatcher by pointing out he was still alive, it has emerged. Hanging on a door facing the back garden is a fluorescent jacket. Yet that has not stopped the ardent communist exploiting one of her flagship policies. In time he and his family moved to a more comfortable, modern home in the town where he grew up. Their life sentences were eventually reduced to eight years. [9] He had challenged Sam Bullough, the President of the Yorkshire area NUM, to act on the working hours of surface workers, given that the union's conference had passed a resolution that their hours be shortened the previous year. He belonged to a poor family, who lived in a house with neither electricity nor plumbing. 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Elegant Princess of Wales is all smiles as she plays with children on visit to a nursery amid backlash over Thrifty Kate strikes again! He's also claimed that "many" people now believe that Scargill has turned out to be as bad as Margaret Thatcher. 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. If reports are true that British women volunteers are flocking to the Calais Jungle specifically to have sex with migrants, expect the camp to grow from the current 10,000 to the size of Africa in no time at all. He wouldn't say another word. "[44] However, in December 2012, Scargill lost a similar case concerning rent on his flat in the Barbican, London. [52], The Guardian in February 2014 said that Scargill had become a recluse. His father was also a loyal member of the Communist Party. Arthur Scargill is being investigated by his former unionover the purchase of one of his properties Sources at the development in the Barbican say Mr Scargill is rarely seen at the 2million. [58][59] Scargill's appearance on the picket line was alluded to by Prime Minister Boris Johnson the next day at Prime Minister's Questions, accusing the Labour Party of "literally holding hands with Arthur Scargill". [49], After stepping down from leadership of the NUM, Scargill became active in the UK's Stalin Society[50] saying that the "ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin explain the real world". Its main street leads to a huge expanse of rubble and weeds; on the way there, you pass a branch of a business called The Recycle Shop. They're at it again! He has contested two parliamentary elections. "I've never, ever said owt. 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. [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. 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. 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. Online calculator reveals how inflation-busting 14.4% hike will Aldi and Lidl shoppers face highest inflation hikes: Cost of basic groceries rise by more than 20% at the Is inflation FINALLY on the way down? One of them is from the nearby Wombwell Main pit, and tells its own story. The political power of the NUM and of most British trade unions was severely reduced. 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. I don't know how far he's got. Most of Arthur's money comes from being a politician. In 1958, he attended the World Federation of Trade Unions youth congress in Prague. Self defense expert shares live-saving hacks for evading ALL kinds of attacks - from cutting Do not sell or share my personal information. Despite years of bitter battling with the Tories as they closed practically every mine in the early eighties, the bizarre u-turn by for the former union leader has been welcomed by the Conservatives. 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