UK hows arthur scargill and where is he now ?

Answer 1

I'm not sure but I think he's the leader of the socialist labour party now. I know he's still alive though.

Answer 2

he's still around, wasting time dreaming he will be Prime Minister as leader of the Socialist Labour Party...

Even the SLP website is a dud - when you click on a link it goes to the ISP web-page... very unprofessional :)

dream on Scargill - give it up, Maggie Won heh heh (thanks God) :)

I had a quick look at their very poorly designed and 'cheap 'n chearful' website -I see he's still rattling on about 'class enemies' and reopening t pits ... ah bless !

Never mind that the so-called lower class all own their own homes thanks to Maggie!

what a dreamer...

FOGHORN:

You speak very eloquently.

But I must take issue with your rose-tinted, distorted view of the facts.

What working class? There are no working class, they all own their own homes now.

And as for the pit villages and towns, they now get new factories and investment from companies that make products for which there is a market and which can be exported!

What legitimate strike? That miners strike was illegal and called without a Ballot!

He never challenged the Thatcher government legally did he - he used the mob to bully anyone who disagreed with him, weithout a care for the law, the wishes of the majority of the people of the UK who didn't want a repeat of the 1978-1979 Winter of Discontent

Scargill wanted to bring down a fairly elected legal government and run the country, and he was prepared to use the miners has his army in order to do it. In my view it was a rebellion against a lawfully elected government, nothing less.

They broke so many laws, and hurt so many people...and they never had a legal ballot for that strike.

Plus the strike threatened the survival of the Ravenscraig Steel works in Scotland, as once you turn off those Bessemer Converters for lack of coal or coke, you lose them completely!

I blame Scargill and the NUM for the destruction of the mining industry... if they had tried to work with the government, and accepted that there could be NO GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES (like that had to use in France) because the money wasn't available ... then perhaps the deep coal minng industry would still exist.

Answer 3

Arthur Scargill is still alive and continues to demonstrate the guts and integrity that he has shown throughout his life.

Scargill is a man who is utterly opposed to the exploitation of the working class and to the destruction of the industries that had become traditional to Great Britain, in particular mining for raw materials, steel production and shipbuilding, a destruction that would not benefit the average Briton, but that would benefit the ultra-rich whose wealth is distributed in tax-havens that ensure that the UK does not benefit.from either their commercial operations or any potential tax accruing therefrom.

Scargill challenged the monetarist poicies of Margaret Thatcher, that were a thinly disguised effort to destroy the Trades Unions and thus reduce the power of the working class to negotiate wages, conditions of service, etc. His greatest stand was the Miners Strike, in which the vast majority of coalminers struck work for nearly a year, in protest agains a management who had reneged upon a signed agreement concerning colliery closures. The strike was supported by other Trades Unions, in particular, the Railwaymen, and also by vast numbers of individuals. Thatcher had to use every coercive power that the state had at its disposal to keep this legitimate protest down.

Unfortunately, some miners, principally in Nottinghamshire, found an excuse not to join the strike, doubtless feeling that, as some of their pits were the most modern in the Uk, they might enhance their job security by violating their solidarity. Their reward from the Thatcher Government was to see their pits, and jobs, sacrificed in like measure to the pits that had been loyal to their Union in the wholesale slaughter of the coal mining industry that occured after the defeat of the strikers.

The ultimate result is that the UK is sitting on megatons of the best coal in the world that we cannot or will not mine, so, as our gas resources run out, we have to buy gas from Russia, and we import coal from nations that still employ child labour. The destruction of the Trades Unions has resulted in our workers having some of the worst conditions of service in the Western world, and we have a situation that, when the average salary is £24000 pa, many people are expected to survive on a national minimum wage of less than £13000 pa.

Vast swathes of Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland and South Wales have become ghettoes of no hope, their collieries and supporting industries now just memories. The dignity of generations has been sacrificed and trodden in the dust for the sake of the Southern English frequenters of gastropubs. The nobility of the worker has been poleaxed and has been replaced by a consumer culture that is forced to content itself with fast food. The slagheap has been replaced by an armageddon of empty lager tins and polystyrene hamburger containers.

I feel I can justifiably rest my case.

Answer 4

King Arthur retired from public life right now he's tucked up in bed watching Desperate Housewives.

Answer 5

I will not get Political about this, as some have, just to say that when he said he had information about the closure of the coal mines, he was telling the truth.
His downfall was his way of demonstrating but, of course, his opposition was fierce and we now have no NCB Mines left.
Plenty of coal though, opencast mines are being worked as we speak, so to say.

Answer 6

Grimsby

Answer 7

last i heard he was living next to a coal mine

Answer 8

I thought he had died a few years ago.