08-08-2021, 11:50
(This post was last modified: 08-08-2021, 12:07 by hibeejim21.)
Boris trying to make out the mines being closed was somehow an achievement of that witch thatcher even in jest is xxxx insulting.
It was a national resource, that employed 250k people back in the day. Thatcher wanted to destroy the unions and then speed up her deindustrialization of the UK, knowing full well what it would do to the unemployment figures and communities.
The environment is a key issue now and would have meant the industry would have to have been scaled right back, but back then thatcher just wanted lots of cheap labour to be exploited.
As recently as 2013, the UK imported 50.6 billion tonnes of coal, the most in our entire history. Most of it from Australia and Russia.
So we really should be spared even jokes about the tories being somehow visionary in this area.
It was a national resource, that employed 250k people back in the day. Thatcher wanted to destroy the unions and then speed up her deindustrialization of the UK, knowing full well what it would do to the unemployment figures and communities.
The environment is a key issue now and would have meant the industry would have to have been scaled right back, but back then thatcher just wanted lots of cheap labour to be exploited.
As recently as 2013, the UK imported 50.6 billion tonnes of coal, the most in our entire history. Most of it from Australia and Russia.
So we really should be spared even jokes about the tories being somehow visionary in this area.