Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
Shocking wasn't it what happened to those miners jobs BT, bloody Tories, evil witch Thatcher, and it was all planned for well in advance.

"The challenge from other fuels will not let up. It is only by going forward with its modernisation plan and concentrating on the most economic pits that the coal industry will be viable…In the next few years the number of miners will fall by 35,000 per year…The country cannot afford excessive protection for any of its industries if we are to compete in world markets, we must aim for cheaper energy. Over the last ten years the number of miners has been reduced from over 700,000 to under 400,000 an average fall of 30,000 a year"

B@stards, only 400,000 miners left and they were planning to lay the poor buggers off at a rate of 30,000 a year, they knew that in ten years time there'd only be 100,000 left, the industry would be dead on it's feet. Fecking Torys eh, fecking w@ankers, cruel, heartless b@stards, except this is from Labour's 1967 White Paper on Fuel, Thatcher was still an insignificant backbench Tory MP, it was 12 years before she became PM, but you Lefties never let the truth stand in the way of a good story do you BT, Wilson closed hundreds more pits than Saint Margaret ever did, but best keep that a secret eh.
They certainly got cheaper energy sinkov. They are flagging motorists down outside our local ESSO and begging them to buy petrol.