Thatcher died at the age of 88. Scargill at 86 may or may not live to a greater age and wtf cares if he does. The interesting difference between these two was that Thatcher believed in democracy and Scargill believes in mob rule
These people are the Salt of t'Earth. Arthur Scargill speaks for all decent men and women as he has done for decades. You can see he never had a price. There are a fair few men and women like him in UK. These should be the country's true leaders.
@denzel270. Don’t know if this is true as it’s heresay. Apparently, , the NUM paid for Mr. Scargill’s flat in The Barbican, City of London while he was NUM leader. And a hairdresser went to his home every morning before Mr. Scargill made national TV and public appearances to fix his hair. All the while, the striking miners were living on the breadline. And - after his “retirement” Mr. Scargill expected the seriously depleted NUM to fund his private car and other associated Union “expenses”. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least if it was true. Smacks of “Pull up the ladder, cos’ I’m alright Jack!” Stay safe and well.
@@denzel270Agreed, just like Red Robbo at Longbridge. These union leaders used their members as cannot fodder to further their ideology whilst skimming a nice living off the member’s dues. Has Scargill still got tie NUM flat in London?
@@denzel270people like you have destroyed Britain. Tell me are you proud of your legacy? Britain will never be an industrial world power again because of your lot. Well done…I’m sure the Chinese, Indians, Germans, Americans are very happy with you.
fishy rishy should be made to watch this video and shown that the sentiment over gaza and the feeling of westminster's failure, is not exclusive to the muslim community that is why rochdale voted for george galloway and david tully
Making anyone watch this is beyond heartless. No matter how much you hate poor Mr Fishy Soonak you surely must be devoid of all humanity if you would subject even your worst enemy to this crap
As a striking Derbyshire miner, your efforts will never be forgotten. Without you, and the GOOD people of Britain and throughout the world we couldn't have stayed out as long as we did. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. ✌✌........
The UK has 300 years of coal reserves at 1980s rate of use and were coal to receive the same subsidies as nuclear power and renewables then people could have been paid to use electricity and natural gas made from coal.
All lost now. They concreted over the mines and built retail parks and housing estates on them. Be impossible to access the coal seems at economical points now. T0ry b@stards have a lot to answer for.
@@thehellyousay Technology exists for mining extraction, transportation, storage and processing to be greatly automated with risks to humans minimised.
@@thehellyousayGeoengineering Watch has information about chemtrails containing barium, strontium, aluminium nanofibres being sprayed in the skies worldwide day and night.
Absolutely correct about Saltley in 1972 Arthur I was there when we were joined by the factory workers and that resulted in the plant being closed Respect to Arthur Scargill history is proving him to be correct in everything he predicted at that time Respect to every striking miner and their families who stood their ground in the 1984 strike ✊✊🏿✊🏽
Respect to you sir , I was one of the strikers that had a year without pay & looked on in horror at how thatcher deployed the police at Orgreave with the sole intention to physically assault the striking miners, don’t get me wrong the miners retaliated out of self defence but I was there & the press coverage was similar to Hillsboro, disgusting , still a Scargill man to this day ! It’s amazing how the wealthy elite printed press circle their wagons when someone like Scargill & Corbyn get anywhere near power ! Thankyou !
@@marksykes5434 Ultimate respect to you Mark. Generations of us producing coal to meet the energy requirements of the nation and treated appalling badly by the Thatcherite ruling class Shame on them !!!! ✊✊🏿✊🏽
@@barrywest2170 Bozo was even recently recorded as saying that they destroyed the coal industry because they knew it was bad for the environment ! Thanks Barry 👍✊🏻
@Paxanglorum I started work in the mining industry in 1958 Any pit closures during the Wilson government periods of government were due older colliery coal seams being worked out or to unsafe to mine. Any workers affected by a pit closure were always found alternative employment at another colliery In my particular case in 1963 when the old pit closed we were re employed at at brand new colliery This was very different to the butchering of the industry which happened during the Thatcher government which lead to the wholesale destruction and devastation of mining communities I hope this will help you to understand what actually happened and what the 1984 strike was all about ✊✊🏿✊🏽
Even before the strike, he was loved by Yorkshire miners for his role in winning compensation for miners who drowned in the Lofthouse colliery disaster. NCB claimed it was unreasonable for them to be expected to know there was an old flooded pitt close to the new pit. Arthur went to the University of Leeds archives and found documents detailing the old pit showing if the NCB had done due diligence they would have know the location of the old pit. Those miners died horrific deaths drowning in the dark underground. And this document won the court case for their families. People don’t forget stuff like that.
In the 1984-5 strike we were all miligned it was part of Thatchers plan "the enemy within" remember?. With the help of Murdoch and the right-wing media, she managed to keep a large part of the country "on-side". Without that support she would have failed.
Thank you for publishing. What a way to treat people (a community) that worked in terrible conditions. Shame on the media. Shame on Government parties and MPs. The same thing with GAZA. Well said Arthur. Thank you and greetings to you all.
Fair brought a tear to my eye that, and I was barely a teenager when it was all going on, but I knew I was 'on his side' even though I wasn't entirely sure what that was! Years later my Mum casually told me she was in the YCL in Leeds in the fifties or early sixties and used to be going out with Arthur's best mate so he'd been round for Sunday tea a couple of times. I was really pleased about that! So good to see him again, and to see the respect he still gets from the people that matter to him.
He made some big errors but his analysis of the goals of the establishment to destroy the miners was the key to destroying all workers rights and were still paying for that today
Usual diatribe of lies, fact more pits were closed under Labour than the Tories, fact the pits would still be dead by now no matter which government were in power with advent of diesel powered trains, gas and electric central heating, power stations generating by using natural gas, wind and solar farms, and the demise of the steel industry due to steel being cheaper to import there was no demand for coal, as for Scargill how the hell he has the nerve to show his face to the miners after he stole from them
maybe he made some mistakes I don't know but i'll tell you this I would never trust a man who did not make mistakes--the only leftists who do not make mistakes are the ones who sit around in pure trotskyite or ml groups and spout all the "correct" answers a do nothing --if you fight you will make mistakes if you don't fight you are useless
@@earth_sunlove how about the innocent people and children of Israel who have died / injured in random rocket attacks across the border. Convenient forgotten that ?
I was 15 in 1983 and I remember every night my late parents watching the news and seeing the brave mining communities fighting to save the pits. Every night at tea time we as a family were glued to the TV. My dad cleared factories with scrap iron and metal and my parents never claimed a penny of support from the state only family allowance, now known as child benefit. Due to the situation with the steel works the price per ton of scrap iron and metal went down and my parents were struggling. They were worried but they understood the reasons. We watched as community kitchens opened to feed the miners and their families, the cooking being done by the miners wives ect. I remember mum and dad sending £10 to help the miners cause, they didn't have much coming in at the time but like they said, we do have food. Thatcher and her Tory government were the start of the break up of families and the working class communities of Britain. Look at what is going on now with the Tory party in power, yet again the working class are suffering. This New Labour lot are no better, how can they call themselves socialists when they are just as bad as the Tories. I struggle who to vote for. To see Arthur Scargill was amazing and brought back many memories from being a young girl. Kind regards Angeline ❤️ xx
I was a similar age and my dad was on strike for the duration with the vast majority of the Kent coalfield. I remember the hardship but it gives me a warm glow all these years later to think of families out there like yours. We pretty much thought we and the other communities were on our own, the "enemy within" as the media portrayed us. Thank you.
@@hackedoff736 Things were so hard for all you mining families and so unfair. Thatcher has destroyed so many families, communities and ways of life. It was hard for us to see but much harder for you to live it day in day out. Kind regards Angeline ❤️ xx
Long life and best wishes Arthur for standing up for the first British victims of Neoliberal capitalism when I was just 3. If a nation had have listened and stood with the miners in overwhelming numbers, my life would have been better for it.
Well said. I doubt many now grasp the pivotal role the Miners played in the UK economy then, and why this was essential for their collective destruction, for the scumbags in Westminster/Downing Street/The City.
I was delighted, whippet on lap, to sit, on the Waterloo/Yorkshire train and grabbed the free seat next to Arthur. As each train staffer as they passed, paid respect and solidarity. Sitting across from Arthur was a smart, thirty-ish senior management staffer who wanted to challenge strikers . What impressed me was how he was able to spend, in those days of war, his time, patience and sincere explanations of the strikes and how Thatcher would ruin of the nation. Much to my chagrin I only got to say a few words of solidarity on leaving the train.
Thank you again for publishing Arthur Scargill's speech Crispin. My wife and I supported the 1984/85 strike with food and money. Listening to Arthur today, I've learnt a couple of things I never knew at the time. Carry on as long as you can Arthur.
@@stephenroche5107 I doubt he's that thin skinned,Stephen! It was an affectionate nickname widely used back then (and obvs ironic). The media were (and still are) fond of dubbing Union Leaders as "bosses" and "barons"...so we simply upped the ante!
When he brought coach loads of miners down to London for the Grunwick picket line back in 1977, stepped off the bus and and was arrested in about 2 seconds ; they were scared of him long before Thatcher 😂. Top boy, Arthur and great to hear him once again. Respect to the sister who gave the introduction, remembering the smells. I remember the sounds of plastic buckets being rattled, full of coins as funds were collected outside all the tube stations. We gave but not enough😢
Think what could have been achieved if social media had been around in 1984. Must say the young guy who spoke at the end was inspirational as well as the great Arthur. Great video.
I have never had so much hatred in my heart for another man like I have Arthur the snake scargil. While miners was not getting a penny losing there houses starving and freezing etc then you had Arthur receiving bundles of blood money from Libya that should of been for the minors this rat was paying his own debts off. Both sides of my family suffered at the hands of this man aswel as my mother almost losing me from the stress!!
Thanks for this video, Crispin, and for giving us the chance to hear Arthur Scargill's heartfelt words at the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike and their valiant struggles against Thatcher's draconian policies aimed at the working class and the Trade Union movement: it was a speech full of spirit and wit - he's lost none of his fire or determination. Very heartened to hear his support for the Palestinian people: forever in solidarity.
He started a strike without a meaningful ballot of members and in March after Thatcher had been stockpiling coal. You have to hand it to him, Arthur was a master tactician.
Yes, the overtime ban was working, and stocks were coming down but nowhere near the numbers required= calling a strike without a ballot at the start of a long summer was suicidal. It was the Yorkshire miners who elected him, and they had the power to unelect him- he didn't have the ability to reason with or stand up to them. Had the strike been organised properly it could have succeeded, unfortunately it was a mess from day one.
To true on that one sir you hit the nail on the head commie dictators they all where that lennin hat dont they corbin weres one as well that all you need to know champagne commies@@ElJay2412
He was right from day one, pity some quislings among the miners sold out, in fact they sold the South Yorkshire miners out to try and save their own jobs, how did that work out?
As a striking Derbyshire miner, the only ones to sell anyone out, came from the Mansfield area of Nottingham. Kent, Durham, Wales, Scotland were all 100% behind strike action. WHAT would have happened if Notts miners had gone on strike, I'm afraid we will never know will we. But don't FORGET there were hundreds of Nott's miners who were on strike (and just like us for a full year). When a group of workers takes on the full force of the state there can only be one winner, NOT the workers. And remember this! during this period of time, Thatcher had huge popularity throught much of the country.
Hi coolerman, I believe Roy Lynk is dead., As a striking miner my next door neighbour was a working deputy, but to be honest we never really had a fall-out. What would have happened if they had have gone on strike I don't know, they would probably have been bought off by Thatcher, or senior management would have done the inspections. Either way the outcome would have still been the same. WHAT NO ONE SAYS IS WE NEVER REALLY HAD FULL BACKING FROM OUR FELLOW WORKERS. We were not only fighting this government we were fighting Murdoch and the right wing media.........@@Coolerman565
I was 15 during the '84 strike - my father owned a business in Wigan and one day drove me down the road to see the picket lines at Bikershaw mine and then another near St.Helens, saying "take a good look - you'll never see the like of this again". He did not agree with the strike, but gave them £20 from the window of his executive car, as said they were very likely starving. During that time a friend was robbed and the Poice gave us a lift home - they were boasting of all the overtime they were earning and the skulls they'd cracked and great rumpases they had all over the north. Up to that point, I was ambivalent towards the strike.... but this got me thinking. I did not agree wth Scargills politics, but slowly came to believe it was a stich-up job by the Government to destroy the NUM and shut all the mines. The constant assassination of Scargills character , with lies of fraud and slander, when in fact it was just keeping the supplies into the soup kitchens rolling, just confirmed it in my mind. Tragedy - we all lost. The Yorkshire & South Wales coalfields and communities devastated for nothing, and worse, the madness of hundreds of year's worth of coal stuck underground doing nowt - it could all be feeding clean-burn technology.
It was at that time i lost all respect for the police who allowed themselves to become a gang of thugs that would have been at home in a South American fascist dictatorship, not one of those scumbags was ever prosecuted for lying on oath about Orgreave.
We knew then what the police and military were all about, heroes my arse, nothing but hired thugs and killers, the first line of defence against the establishment. Breaking the solidarity of the workers followed by the sell off of social housing destroyed britains communities, we've been divided ever since.
Fact is she won a Landslide Election after defeating Scargill. He maybe 86 but Castro was old when he went. Will be Interesting to see the future of Cuba.
I wish Arthur Scargill had not brought up Gaza, when this should have been a discussion about coal and its future. They really are two separate issues, huge as they both are.
Hamas themselves are no friends of the people of Palestine. He (Scargill) and anyone else should read the book "Son of Hamas" by Mosab Hassan Yousef whose father was the leader of Hamas. The situation in Gaza and the Middle East is very complex. Hamas want to obliterate Israel and are so are intent on genocide as Israel is intent to obliterate Hamas. Hamas themselves are bank rolled by Iran which are no friends of freedom of speech nor the rights of women etc. It is easy to take sides living at a distance from this conflict. Israel themselves are not the good guys in this either. Though they have a right to defend their nation as any nation does, it is difficult (if not impossible) when your enemy embeds themselves in the population.
Brilliant, thank you Crispin for bringing on Arthur Scargill. My father was a coal miner, was in hospital, i wrote to Arthur and he sent a get well soon letter to him, he weeped with tears of joy and it helped him improve, to this day i still have Arthur’s very sweet, kind and sincere letter. Thank you Arthur, God bless you, we need Arthur in George’s Workers Party, he would make a marvellous MP.
@@barrywest2170 Thank you Barry, my old fella is gone now. Arthur is the greatest trade union leader of all time. Met him many times together with George Galloway and Tony Benn, on all occasions the room was packed out to the rafters.
I did want to thank the organiser's i speak to gary i think , the gentleman who did the announcement's and introduced the speaker's , We travelled with friend's ex miner's from Bersham and north wales and were so pleased with the warm welcome ! And as the son of a miner was so , pleased to hear these people speaking , and continuing a fight for working class people to try to maintain and improve term's and working condition's , it is a diffiult time , I had the honour of shaking mr scargill's hand as he left the meeting at the Dodworth club , And i hope one day to return to helo , to some of the people who we met that day , thank's to the organiser's great job ,👏👍
The man who used thousands of pounds of NUM money as if it was his own, with a £34000 per year flat in London while Miners and their families went hungry and cold. Complete Rat.
I didn’t understand the strike, mum was a Tory and believed the miners were trying to bring down the country. She read the daily mail and believed all that. But 40yrs ago we had an nhs, free schools, benefits affordable housing. All gone now. Vote green Rishi and Starmer aren’t going to make our lives better. Barb
I remember Libya donating to the miners, he paid £ 29.000 off his bridging loan plus £ 25.000 towards his house, he only gave £ 10. 000 to the Nottinghamshire miners, check it out. Greed
Nice try, looks like you should have read that the claims about paying off the mortgage were false though. "The editor of the Daily Mirror at the time, Roy Greenslade, wrote an article in The Guardian in May 2002 to apologise to Scargill for the false claims about paying off the mortgage and for putting too much trust in Roger Windsor, who at the time had still not repaid the £29,500 that he had taken from the Miners' Welfare Fund and that the Lightman Report had asked that he repay."
There's was a strange puzzle in the history of the Miners' Strike - we know that the collection of scumbags in Westminster/Downing Street imported coal from Poland - and stockpiled it - in an effort to out manoeuvre the Miners/the Union. The puzzle being this ---- The export of Polish coal occurred BEFORE the USSR fell apart. We might presume that Moscow (which supported the Miners) would find this objectionable; so ... did the pertinent agents in Poland manage to send the ships off without Moscow finding out? A little bit of fiddling the books, at the dockyards, perhaps?
We can also see now, that the London media output vis. Walesa and co. was wholly dishonest. As was the man himself! Perversely, we can see that Washington attempted to roll out 'Chicago School' economics in Poland, as it had in Chile, among several other states; which was resisted. So we can see a paradox - Polish coal assisted in the roll out of Neo-liberalism in the UK, but the policy set was resisted in Poland.
From what I recall UK deployed Gladio forces against the miners, which would tally with what Arthur is saying...this is from a Lobster article...David Hart being a key operative in this area. Looking at National Assoc Manufacturers in USA using American Legion to fight back against labor post-new deal and bring in neoliberalism, is an interesting comparison.
Arthur made a big blunder when he should have spent more time trying to get the Nottingham miners to come out on strike. With out Nottingham miners strike was doomed
My late stepfather’s family were from County Durham and many of them worked in the mines, they’ll never ever forget how Thatcher treated them. Arthur Scargill is a national hero and we’ll never forget what he did for the miners. It’s good to see him still going strong in his 80’s god bless him. Solidarity always ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
It’s lovely to see Arthur Scargill looking well & still has spirit to fight for justice despite the negative media coverage as usual, some things never change!!!! Why Thatcher has been eulogised is disgusting 🤮 She was & will always be the downfall of so many communities & the rise of inequality 🇵🇸🙏🕯️
Bless you King Arthur !!! My grandad did 30 years on nights at Bullcroft col.iery God bless his soul,it was pick and shovel back the n,im 69 now and remember the lads on strike,theey had nothing,the num wanted to help but thatcher froze their bank accounts ,,,,she wanted my mam to bo hungry!the time to stand up for all injustices is now everybody,
I hope Arthur pays you back from the millions he received from two foreign governments. These payments were sent solely for the Miners Welfare Fund, which Arthur kept for himself.
wonderful to see Arthur Scargill still strong and true! I’m not a believer but here’s a heartfelt “God bless you”. Along with the victory of George Galloway last week I feel there’s at last a chance this year to turn the tables on all these corrupt politicians both Tory and Labour.
Scargill ended up after the miners strike living in an expensive flat apartment central London in the barbican paid for by the NUM ..for years... After the strikers lost in their lives...
The Tories threw down the Chalice, the Miners picked it up. Respect to the Miners and Arthur Scargill fighting against a Fascist Tory government, they had the full power of the state against them.
The company I worked for built the coal import facility for south African coal ahead of the strikes. I learned about the project well after completion when querying project accounts in head office. It surprised me.
I'm from a Doncaster pit village where the police ran riot. The military were definitely involved. Mixed feelings...why?...because there should have been a national ballot. My family and friends who were miners were saved from dying premature deaths due to pneumoniconiosis. Thatcher did nothing to help the communities she closed down.
Arthur Scargill has outlived Thatcher by many years. Time for Britain to find its backbone
What a stupid statement. She was born 13 years before him and was older than he is now when she died. I don’t get your point.
@@makeithappen1952 point is..she is long dead and he is still alive..thats the point
you must love thatcher so sad @@makeithappen1952
Thatcher died at the age of 88. Scargill at 86 may or may not live to a greater age and wtf cares if he does. The interesting difference between these two was that Thatcher believed in democracy and Scargill believes in mob rule
@@carolberry2239 really..?
These people are the Salt of t'Earth. Arthur Scargill speaks for all decent men and women as he has done for decades. You can see he never had a price. There are a fair few men and women like him in UK. These should be the country's true leaders.
No, he never had a price. He earnt more than enough as a Union leader (and parasite)
@denzel270. Don’t know if this is true as it’s heresay. Apparently, , the NUM paid for Mr. Scargill’s flat in The Barbican, City of London while he was NUM leader. And a hairdresser went to his home every morning before Mr. Scargill made national TV and public appearances to fix his hair. All the while, the striking miners were living on the breadline. And - after his “retirement” Mr. Scargill expected the seriously depleted NUM to fund his private car and other associated Union “expenses”. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least if it was true. Smacks of “Pull up the ladder, cos’ I’m alright Jack!” Stay safe and well.
@@denzel270Agreed, just like Red Robbo at Longbridge. These union leaders used their members as cannot fodder to further their ideology whilst skimming a nice living off the member’s dues. Has Scargill still got tie NUM flat in London?
Yes ...speaks for decent men a women. And the appalling corruption we see today originates from her and her conservative party and their policies
@@denzel270people like you have destroyed Britain. Tell me are you proud of your legacy? Britain will never be an industrial world power again because of your lot. Well done…I’m sure the Chinese, Indians, Germans, Americans are very happy with you.
Unity is strength.
Respect.
✊
fishy rishy should be made to watch this video and shown that the sentiment over gaza and the feeling of westminster's failure, is not exclusive to the muslim community
that is why rochdale voted for george galloway and david tully
Making anyone watch this is beyond heartless. No matter how much you hate poor Mr Fishy Soonak you surely must be devoid of all humanity if you would subject even your worst enemy to this crap
didn't help the miners though did it ?
@@HiddenCreaturesHQminers are still alive today. The right wing agenda was to defeat the miners but they are not defeated
@@kwanchan6745 A Muslim like Galloway was always going to win in Rochdale.
I collected for the miners in Liverpool. I was 24. People spat on us but many many more supported and gave generosity.
Respect to you Eileen I’m sure your efforts and support would have been greatly appreciated ✊✊🏿✊🏽
Me too Eileen, in the South! Remember it well. We too had a lot of abuse, but huge support too
As a striking Derbyshire miner, your efforts will never be forgotten. Without you, and the GOOD people of Britain and throughout the world we couldn't have stayed out as long as we did. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. ✌✌........
Liverpool funded IRA terrorism, yet expected sympathy for the drunk fans.
@@paulbird3235 Scargill should have negotiated after the autumn of 1984 when it was obvious to everyone that his illegal strike had failed.
The UK has 300 years of coal reserves at 1980s rate of use and were coal to receive the same subsidies as nuclear power and renewables then people could have been paid to use electricity and natural gas made from coal.
All lost now. They concreted over the mines and built retail parks and housing estates on them. Be impossible to access the coal seems at economical points now. T0ry b@stards have a lot to answer for.
I believe there is more
yearning for the black fogs, are you? miss the black lung and poisoned water, do you?
@@thehellyousay Technology exists for mining extraction, transportation, storage and processing to be greatly automated with risks to humans minimised.
@@thehellyousayGeoengineering Watch has information about chemtrails containing barium, strontium, aluminium nanofibres being sprayed in the skies worldwide day and night.
Absolutely correct about Saltley in 1972 Arthur I was there when we were joined by the factory workers and that resulted in the plant being closed Respect to Arthur Scargill history is proving him to be correct in everything he predicted at that time Respect to every striking miner and their families who stood their ground in the 1984 strike ✊✊🏿✊🏽
@@My0wnLyingFiveEyes Respect to you brother ✊✊🏿✊🏽
Respect to you sir , I was one of the strikers that had a year without pay & looked on in horror at how thatcher deployed the police at Orgreave with the sole intention to physically assault the striking miners, don’t get me wrong the miners retaliated out of self defence but I was there & the press coverage was similar to Hillsboro, disgusting , still a Scargill man to this day ! It’s amazing how the wealthy elite printed press circle their wagons when someone like Scargill & Corbyn get anywhere near power ! Thankyou !
@@marksykes5434 Ultimate respect to you Mark. Generations of us producing coal to meet the energy requirements of the nation and treated appalling badly by the Thatcherite ruling class Shame on them !!!! ✊✊🏿✊🏽
@@barrywest2170 Bozo was even recently recorded as saying that they destroyed the coal industry because they knew it was bad for the environment ! Thanks Barry 👍✊🏻
@Paxanglorum I started work in the mining industry in 1958 Any pit closures during the Wilson government periods of government were due older colliery coal seams being worked out or to unsafe to mine. Any workers affected by a pit closure were always found alternative employment at another colliery In my particular case in 1963 when the old pit closed we were re employed at at brand new colliery This was very different to the butchering of the industry which happened during the Thatcher government which lead to the wholesale destruction and devastation of mining communities I hope this will help you to understand what actually happened and what the 1984 strike was all about ✊✊🏿✊🏽
Scargill. Much maligned, much vilified by the establishment. But much loved by his people. God bless.
Was at home on Christmas day when the press called whilst the pickets lines were still being manned.
@denzel270 he was only one man and it was a different time back then , he did all he could and he tried hard for all Brit workers .
Even before the strike, he was loved by Yorkshire miners for his role in winning compensation for miners who drowned in the Lofthouse colliery disaster. NCB claimed it was unreasonable for them to be expected to know there was an old flooded pitt close to the new pit. Arthur went to the University of Leeds archives and found documents detailing the old pit showing if the NCB had done due diligence they would have know the location of the old pit. Those miners died horrific deaths drowning in the dark underground. And this document won the court case for their families. People don’t forget stuff like that.
In the 1984-5 strike we were all miligned it was part of Thatchers plan "the enemy within" remember?. With the help of Murdoch and the right-wing media, she managed to keep a large part of the country "on-side". Without that support she would have failed.
Thank you for publishing. What a way to treat people (a community) that worked in terrible conditions. Shame on the media. Shame on Government parties and MPs. The same thing with GAZA. Well said Arthur. Thank you and greetings to you all.
great man mr scargill
You are the greatest Arthur, God bless you and preserve you! The future will always be in the hands of working men and women.
Spot on
well said!!
Fair brought a tear to my eye that, and I was barely a teenager when it was all going on, but I knew I was 'on his side' even though I wasn't entirely sure what that was! Years later my Mum casually told me she was in the YCL in Leeds in the fifties or early sixties and used to be going out with Arthur's best mate so he'd been round for Sunday tea a couple of times. I was really pleased about that! So good to see him again, and to see the respect he still gets from the people that matter to him.
Scargill is still in surprisingly good form considering he is 86 years old.
He's still as anti-Semitic as ever.
Well , he's against the Genocide , so yes , that makes one Anti Semitic doesn't it ?
@@MadderMel Scargill was always extremely anti-Semitic, like McGahey.
But has he got his own teeth?
A great hero of the working class.
Thank you for remembering our oppressed loved ones
Thank you. The legend speaks.
Now let’s get Corbyn to join Galloway. Your country needs you, Sir.
Galloway is anti abortion anti Europe Racist transphobic etc Corby won't support him neither will I and many others
We certainly don’t need these two anti U.K. looney lefties mate. What are you smoking ?
That would involve St JC growing a backbone...
He made some big errors but his analysis of the goals of the establishment to destroy the miners was the key to destroying all workers rights and were still paying for that today
Usual diatribe of lies, fact more pits were closed under Labour than the Tories, fact the pits would still be dead by now no matter which government were in power with advent of diesel powered trains, gas and electric central heating, power stations generating by using natural gas, wind and solar farms, and the demise of the steel industry due to steel being cheaper to import there was no demand for coal, as for Scargill how the hell he has the nerve to show his face to the miners after he stole from them
maybe he made some mistakes I don't know but i'll tell you this I would never trust a man who did not make mistakes--the only leftists who do not make mistakes are the ones who sit around in pure trotskyite or ml groups and spout all the "correct" answers a do nothing --if you fight you will make mistakes if you don't fight you are useless
Always admired him
Bless you sir
Thank you for your support for the people of Palestine
You are the man of the people❤
WTF has Palestine got to do with a Union leader?
@@denzel270you really are a complete bollix!!!!
@@denzel270it's called being a decent human being with feelings
@@earth_sunlove how about the innocent people and children of Israel who have died / injured in random rocket attacks across the border. Convenient forgotten that ?
He says we were just about to win, when the strike was called off. He obviously still remains delusional after all these years.
Remember it well.
Good to see Arthur.
✊🏻✊🏽✊✊🏿.
Great to see Arthur, the struggle continues.
Does it?
@@lackof548 it so does
Good to hear young people supporting. Scargill has faith, but the youth bring hope.
They're too young to remember the damage Scargill and Unions did to our country and economy in the 70's. They made us the poor man of Europe.
King of West Yorkshier
Arthur Scargill is a legend and an honest man.
Millionaire legend thats the truth
I was 15 in 1983 and I remember every night my late parents watching the news and seeing the brave mining communities fighting to save the pits. Every night at tea time we as a family were glued to the TV. My dad cleared factories with scrap iron and metal and my parents never claimed a penny of support from the state only family allowance, now known as child benefit. Due to the situation with the steel works the price per ton of scrap iron and metal went down and my parents were struggling. They were worried but they understood the reasons. We watched as community kitchens opened to feed the miners and their families, the cooking being done by the miners wives ect. I remember mum and dad sending £10 to help the miners cause, they didn't have much coming in at the time but like they said, we do have food. Thatcher and her Tory government were the start of the break up of families and the working class communities of Britain. Look at what is going on now with the Tory party in power, yet again the working class are suffering. This New Labour lot are no better, how can they call themselves socialists when they are just as bad as the Tories. I struggle who to vote for. To see Arthur Scargill was amazing and brought back many memories from being a young girl. Kind regards Angeline ❤️ xx
News nowadays is a state controlled machine
I was a similar age and my dad was on strike for the duration with the vast majority of the Kent coalfield. I remember the hardship but it gives me a warm glow all these years later to think of families out there like yours. We pretty much thought we and the other communities were on our own, the "enemy within" as the media portrayed us. Thank you.
@@hackedoff736 Things were so hard for all you mining families and so unfair. Thatcher has destroyed so many families, communities and ways of life. It was hard for us to see but much harder for you to live it day in day out. Kind regards Angeline ❤️ xx
Long life and best wishes Arthur for standing up for the first British victims of Neoliberal capitalism when I was just 3. If a nation had have listened and stood with the miners in overwhelming numbers, my life would have been better for it.
Well said. I doubt many now grasp the pivotal role the Miners played in the
UK economy then, and why this was essential for their collective destruction,
for the scumbags in Westminster/Downing Street/The City.
He didn't stand with them though did he? He was at home with his family enjoying Christmas while they were out on the picket lines
@@denzel270utter bs.
@@denzel270utter bs.
@@denzel270utter bs.
I was delighted, whippet on lap, to sit, on the Waterloo/Yorkshire train and grabbed the free seat next to Arthur. As each train staffer as they passed, paid respect and solidarity. Sitting across from Arthur was a smart, thirty-ish senior management staffer who wanted to challenge strikers . What impressed me was how he was able to spend, in those days of war, his time, patience and sincere explanations of the strikes and how Thatcher would ruin of the nation. Much to my chagrin I only got to say a few words of solidarity on leaving the train.
God bless you King Arthur.
Living legend. Fills my heart to hear him. We shall overcome.
A leg end in his own lunchtime
So, how's that going? Whom do you want to overcome and when will it happen?
@@jonathan9wood More like his own imagination, or just before coffee time. Sorry, mis read your post, I was sure you said leg end, not bell end.
Bless your soul 😅
Thank you again for publishing Arthur Scargill's speech Crispin. My wife and I supported the 1984/85 strike with food and money. Listening to Arthur today, I've learnt a couple of things I never knew at the time. Carry on as long as you can Arthur.
All of my respect goes to these wonderful people. A different breed of people than today.
oh King Arthur, it is a rare treat to see and hear you again!You're looking and sounding mighty as usual!! Well said.
Please do not call him king he would find that offensive
@@stephenroche5107 I doubt he's that thin skinned,Stephen! It was an affectionate nickname widely used back then (and obvs ironic). The media were (and still are) fond of dubbing Union Leaders as "bosses" and "barons"...so we simply upped the ante!
When he brought coach loads of miners down to London for the Grunwick picket line back in 1977, stepped off the bus and and was arrested in about 2 seconds ; they were scared of him long before Thatcher 😂. Top boy, Arthur and great to hear him once again. Respect to the sister who gave the introduction, remembering the smells. I remember the sounds of plastic buckets being rattled, full of coins as funds were collected outside all the tube stations. We gave but not enough😢
Think what could have been achieved if social media had been around in 1984. Must say the young guy who spoke at the end was inspirational as well as the great Arthur. Great video.
Arthur Scargill HERO
Why
I have never had so much hatred in my heart for another man like I have Arthur the snake scargil. While miners was not getting a penny losing there houses starving and freezing etc then you had Arthur receiving bundles of blood money from Libya that should of been for the minors this rat was paying his own debts off. Both sides of my family suffered at the hands of this man aswel as my mother almost losing me from the stress!!
Thanks for this video, Crispin, and for giving us the chance to hear Arthur Scargill's heartfelt words at the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike and their valiant struggles against Thatcher's draconian policies aimed at the working class and the Trade Union movement: it was a speech full of spirit and wit - he's lost none of his fire or determination. Very heartened to hear his support for the Palestinian people: forever in solidarity.
Thank YOU, Arthur Scargill!! You will always be a 'working-class hero' in the U.K.!
@michellenorris8471 Definately something to be! and yes he is .
@@muckle8 that john lennon song should be sung out loud
He started a strike without a meaningful ballot of members and in March after Thatcher had been stockpiling coal. You have to hand it to him, Arthur was a master tactician.
Yes, the overtime ban was working, and stocks were coming down but nowhere near the numbers required= calling a strike without a ballot at the start of a long summer was suicidal. It was the Yorkshire miners who elected him, and they had the power to unelect him- he didn't have the ability to reason with or stand up to them. Had the strike been organised properly it could have succeeded, unfortunately it was a mess from day one.
To true on that one sir you hit the nail on the head commie dictators they all where that lennin hat dont they corbin weres one as well that all you need to know champagne commies@@ElJay2412
He was right from day one, pity some quislings among the miners sold out, in fact they sold the South Yorkshire miners out to try and save their own jobs, how did that work out?
As a striking Derbyshire miner, the only ones to sell anyone out, came from the Mansfield area of Nottingham. Kent, Durham, Wales, Scotland were all 100% behind strike action. WHAT would have happened if Notts miners had gone on strike, I'm afraid we will never know will we. But don't FORGET there were hundreds of Nott's miners who were on strike (and just like us for a full year). When a group of workers takes on the full force of the state there can only be one winner, NOT the workers. And remember this! during this period of time, Thatcher had huge popularity throught much of the country.
Yes wonder what happened to the missing Roy link? also i believe if the Deputies had come out it could have been game over.
Hi coolerman, I believe Roy Lynk is dead., As a striking miner my next door neighbour was a working deputy, but to be honest we never really had a fall-out. What would have happened if they had have gone on strike I don't know, they would probably have been bought off by Thatcher, or senior management would have done the inspections. Either way the outcome would have still been the same. WHAT NO ONE SAYS IS WE NEVER REALLY HAD FULL BACKING FROM OUR FELLOW WORKERS. We were not only fighting this government we were fighting Murdoch and the right wing media.........@@Coolerman565
I was 15 during the '84 strike - my father owned a business in Wigan and one day drove me down the road to see the picket lines at Bikershaw mine and then another near St.Helens, saying "take a good look - you'll never see the like of this again". He did not agree with the strike, but gave them £20 from the window of his executive car, as said they were very likely starving. During that time a friend was robbed and the Poice gave us a lift home - they were boasting of all the overtime they were earning and the skulls they'd cracked and great rumpases they had all over the north. Up to that point, I was ambivalent towards the strike.... but this got me thinking. I did not agree wth Scargills politics, but slowly came to believe it was a stich-up job by the Government to destroy the NUM and shut all the mines. The constant assassination of Scargills character , with lies of fraud and slander, when in fact it was just keeping the supplies into the soup kitchens rolling, just confirmed it in my mind. Tragedy - we all lost. The Yorkshire & South Wales coalfields and communities devastated for nothing, and worse, the madness of hundreds of year's worth of coal stuck underground doing nowt - it could all be feeding clean-burn technology.
The press just told the truth about Scargill.
British coal was too pollutive and dificult to extract.
I could have listened to Arthur Scargill for hours. Wish he lived next door. I want to know so many more of the details he gave about 1984.
Thatcher's boot boys were infamous.
It was at that time i lost all respect for the police who allowed themselves to become a gang of thugs that would have been at home in a South American fascist dictatorship, not one of those scumbags was ever prosecuted for lying on oath about Orgreave.
We knew then what the police and military were all about, heroes my arse, nothing but hired thugs and killers, the first line of defence against the establishment.
Breaking the solidarity of the workers followed by the sell off of social housing destroyed britains communities, we've been divided ever since.
Fact is she won a Landslide Election after defeating Scargill. He maybe 86 but Castro was old when he went. Will be Interesting to see the future of Cuba.
There were actual boot boys on the mining estate I grow up on. Paki Bashers they called themselves.
Arthur i was a miner on strike but while nottinghamshire worked we were always going to be defeated- it should have been everyone or no one
I wish Arthur Scargill had not brought up Gaza, when this should have been a discussion about coal and its future. They really are two separate issues, huge as they both are.
He has always been an anti-Semite.
no they are not
Hamas themselves are no friends of the people of Palestine. He (Scargill) and anyone else should read the book "Son of Hamas" by Mosab Hassan Yousef whose father was the leader of Hamas. The situation in Gaza and the Middle East is very complex. Hamas want to obliterate Israel and are so are intent on genocide as Israel is intent to obliterate Hamas. Hamas themselves are bank rolled by Iran which are no friends of freedom of speech nor the rights of women etc. It is easy to take sides living at a distance from this conflict. Israel themselves are not the good guys in this either. Though they have a right to defend their nation as any nation does, it is difficult (if not impossible) when your enemy embeds themselves in the population.
Like most union leaders ,scargill was never short of money when times were hard..
Brilliant, thank you Crispin for bringing on Arthur Scargill. My father was a coal miner, was in hospital, i wrote to Arthur and he sent a get well soon letter to him, he weeped with tears of joy and it helped him improve, to this day i still have Arthur’s very sweet, kind and sincere letter. Thank you Arthur, God bless you, we need Arthur in George’s Workers Party, he would make a marvellous MP.
Arthur is proper Socialist Paul that was so nice of him to send the card to your Father and to know it helped his recovery ✊🏿✊✊🏽
@@barrywest2170 Thank you Barry, my old fella is gone now. Arthur is the greatest trade union leader of all time. Met him many times together with George Galloway and Tony Benn, on all occasions the room was packed out to the rafters.
I did want to thank the organiser's i speak to gary i think , the gentleman who did the announcement's and introduced the speaker's ,
We travelled with friend's ex miner's from Bersham and north wales and were so pleased with the warm welcome !
And as the son of a miner was so , pleased to hear these people speaking , and continuing a fight for working class people to try to maintain and improve term's and working condition's , it is a diffiult time ,
I had the honour of shaking mr scargill's hand as he left the meeting at the Dodworth club ,
And i hope one day to return to helo , to some of the people who we met that day , thank's to the organiser's great job ,👏👍
The man who used thousands of pounds of NUM money as if it was his own, with a £34000 per year flat in London while Miners and their families went hungry and cold. Complete Rat.
I didn’t understand the strike, mum was a Tory and believed the miners were trying to bring down the country. She read the daily mail and believed all that. But 40yrs ago we had an nhs, free schools, benefits affordable housing. All gone now. Vote green Rishi and Starmer aren’t going to make our lives better. Barb
Vote green? 🤣😂
Dear dear sir Arthur Thank you so very much sir for you and and your kin have given me the same approach today...(50 now!)
Working class legends ❤
This is the peoples history, I remember the brutal clashes, Thatcher was a monster but you never here that 😢
Shared. Thank you.
I remember Libya donating to the miners, he paid £ 29.000 off his bridging loan plus £ 25.000 towards his house, he only gave £ 10. 000 to the Nottinghamshire miners, check it out. Greed
Nice try, looks like you should have read that the claims about paying off the mortgage were false though.
"The editor of the Daily Mirror at the time, Roy Greenslade, wrote an article in The Guardian in May 2002 to apologise to Scargill for the false claims about paying off the mortgage and for putting too much trust in Roger Windsor, who at the time had still not repaid the £29,500 that he had taken from the Miners' Welfare Fund and that the Lightman Report had asked that he repay."
There's was a strange puzzle in the history of the Miners' Strike -
we know that the collection of scumbags in Westminster/Downing Street
imported coal from Poland - and stockpiled it - in an effort to out manoeuvre
the Miners/the Union.
The puzzle being this ----
The export of Polish coal occurred BEFORE the USSR fell apart.
We might presume that Moscow (which supported the Miners)
would find this objectionable;
so ... did the pertinent agents in Poland manage to send the ships off
without Moscow finding out?
A little bit of fiddling the books, at the dockyards, perhaps?
We can also see now, that the London media output
vis. Walesa and co. was wholly dishonest. As was the man himself!
Perversely, we can see that Washington attempted to
roll out 'Chicago School' economics in Poland,
as it had in Chile, among several other states; which was
resisted.
So we can see a paradox - Polish coal assisted in the roll out of
Neo-liberalism in the UK, but the policy set was resisted in Poland.
From what I recall UK deployed Gladio forces against the miners, which would tally with what Arthur is saying...this is from a Lobster article...David Hart being a key operative in this area. Looking at National Assoc Manufacturers in USA using American Legion to fight back against labor post-new deal and bring in neoliberalism, is an interesting comparison.
Scargill was the wrong person to lead the miners during the strike.
you would have been been better huh creep?
@@bobmcgahey1280 McGahey would have been far better.
@@bobmcgahey1280 Scargill's anti-Semitism and overt support for Stalin's genocides damaged the cause.
It has never been confirmed there were troops.
God bless you Arthur, and all the miners that stood up for themselves. The miners, united, can never be defeated.
A great social, courageous fighter. From a distant country (Mexico), all my admiration and respect for Mr Scargill.
Arthur made a big blunder when he should have spent more time trying to get the Nottingham miners to come out on strike. With out Nottingham miners strike was doomed
Over a fifth of miners continued working from the very beginning.
We all hate the Tories but beware Labour or why do you think the establishment considers Starmer a safe bet ?
Arthur Scargill a real working class Hero 🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟
Arthur was right, but the establishment crushed them. This was the real beginning of the end, when the police turned rogue!
My late stepfather’s family were from County Durham and many of them worked in the mines, they’ll never ever forget how Thatcher treated them. Arthur Scargill is a national hero and we’ll never forget what he did for the miners. It’s good to see him still going strong in his 80’s god bless him. Solidarity always ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
It’s lovely to see Arthur Scargill looking well & still has spirit to fight for justice despite the negative media coverage as usual, some things never change!!!!
Why Thatcher has been eulogised is disgusting 🤮
She was & will always be the downfall of so many communities & the rise of inequality 🇵🇸🙏🕯️
Bless you King Arthur !!! My grandad did 30 years on nights at Bullcroft col.iery God bless his soul,it was pick and shovel back the n,im 69 now and remember the lads on strike,theey had nothing,the num wanted to help but thatcher froze their bank accounts ,,,,she wanted my mam to bo hungry!the time to stand up for all injustices is now everybody,
Good to see Arthur is still a Marxist. ❤ Marx is a philosophy like no other 🟥
Absolutely right Arthur and good to see you looking so good 👍
Lol.
I hope Arthur pays you back from the millions he received from two foreign governments. These payments were sent solely for the Miners Welfare Fund, which Arthur kept for himself.
how wonderful to see this great working class champion of my youth looking so good and still strong and honest
There were no soldiers.
Arthur Scargill is a TRUE British hero. What a great man.
Thank you for posting this. What a legend. Like Corbyn and Galloway, the establishment smeared him and the people he represented.
Bloody hell, you have set the bar low with these two traitorous goons,
If they like communism that much, why don’t they leave our country.
If this is still remembered so viscerally (I was a kid in Yorkshire, in 1984 too), then why did the north vote Tory!? :(
Labour was unelectable in 2017 and 2019.
@@MarkHarrison733 Too true.
That's an amazing lady. What a wonderful tale, told wonderfully. Heart and soul of Britain that; brought a tear to my eye.
wonderful to see Arthur Scargill still strong and true! I’m not a believer but here’s a heartfelt “God bless you”. Along with the victory of George Galloway last week I feel there’s at last a chance this year to turn the tables on all these corrupt politicians both Tory and Labour.
I remember this from my childhood
Should have had a National ballot.
Great man ,the only true union leader this country has seen
A gaggle of bitter old men and guess what? Its raining.
Oh living the dream!
Scargill ended up after the miners strike living in an expensive flat apartment central London in the barbican paid for by the NUM ..for years...
After the strikers lost in their lives...
And your point
King Arthur x God Bless the Miners
Arthur and his family still lived well during the strike, he still drew his pay every month.
so what?
Same old belittling a good man from people who do nothing
Wow, still going, this guy!
Was that memorial to the people they dropped concrete blocks on from a bridge on the motorway?
Scarily was a fascist like all militant trade unions, thank goodness his bulky boy strike fail.
What about Hamas
Where’s the money?
40 years ago. Bloody hell.
I grew up in a mining town. Racist homophobic and misogynistic. Up the Miners.
Thatcher is dead but Arthur is still alive. And Arthur is still right.
The Tories threw down the Chalice, the Miners picked it up. Respect to the Miners and Arthur Scargill fighting against a Fascist Tory government, they had the full power of the state against them.
How can an elected government be "fascist"?
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw hitler was elected creep
Yes, the miners certainly walked into history in 1984-85 ...
A working class hero ❤
He came to speak to us during the early stages of the strike, it seems like a hundred years ago.
I watched with donkeydave best of Britain ❤
The company I worked for built the coal import facility for south African coal ahead of the strikes. I learned about the project well after completion when querying project accounts in head office. It surprised me.
Why?
Nothing else to do now he's been kicked out of his fancy Barbican flat in Central London.
kicked upper us say it fast little fascist boy
I'm from a Doncaster pit village where the police ran riot. The military were definitely involved. Mixed feelings...why?...because there should have been a national ballot. My family and friends who were miners were saved from dying premature deaths due to pneumoniconiosis. Thatcher did nothing to help the communities she closed down.
Arthur 86 years old and still as sharp as a tack
Following this fool was pointless. If only hindsite wasnt an afterthought.
Arthur Scargill, just an old thief at the end of the day.
Thatcher bears a lot of responsibility for the state this country is in today!
Love Comrade Scargill ❤