O/T The Price Of Coal 1977 BBC Drama

[Brin]

Wow! Where have you popped up from?

The mines Wilson closed were way outdated and way out of the modern era to sufficiently produce coal at profit. Made sense to close them and invest more modern technology on mines that would return a good profit to the taxpayer.

Over to you....

[Exiletyke]

Wow! Where have you popped up from?

The mines Wilson closed were way outdated and way out of the modern era to sufficiently produce coal at profit. Made sense to close them and invest more modern technology on mines that would return a good profit to the taxpayer.

Over to you....

That's a very uncomfortable argument for Thatcherites to swallow Brin & proves it was ideology & revenge that drove her agenda

[twinCAT]

Wow! Where have you popped up from?

The mines Wilson closed were way outdated and way out of the modern era to sufficiently produce coal at profit. Made sense to close them and invest more modern technology on mines that would return a good profit to the taxpayer.

Over to you....

That's exactly why they were all closed; because they weren't profitable in the long run. I'm friends with many fitters/electricians who served their time in the industry, and from their tales it's not difficult to understand why it wasn't profitable. They all agree it was the best job they've ever had, the best paid job they've ever had, the best pension scheme they've ever had, while also telling stories of how often they were skiving, and did very little work. It was never going to be sustainable with that work ethic. Why should the government have subsidized it? Welcome to the real world now, it must come as a shock to you.

[Brin]

Animal, have you ever seen the film 'The brave don't cry' starring John Gregson?. This too was about a mining pit disaster.

[gkotw]

And let's not forget the ideological attack on the steel workers a couple or so years earlier. She even used the same hatchet man, Ian Macgregor.

Ive always said Rotherham got a real double whammy from thatcher. First she decimated our steel and then she went for our pits!

[Exiletyke]

In a perverse sort of way when ideology is your agenda I can to some degree see why but it's what happened afterwards that grates
no atempt to revytalise the area or invest properly in rebuilding the damage
Britain did more to revytalise [wont' let me spell it properly for some reason] Germany after the war & look at the consequences of that leg up

re*****ise [see what I mean]

[KerrAvon]

From the fracking thread:

i for one want us to stop burning fossil fuels, we're killing the planet, we need to use cleaner methods of power generation.

So you would have ended coal mining too? Why get upset with twinCat then?

[Brin]

From the fracking thread:



So you would have ended coal mining too? Why get upset with twinCat then?

Because after all the years he's been absent from this site, he's still a Tory c.ock....ring a bell?

[millmoormagic]

From the fracking thread:



So you would have ended coal mining too? Why get upset with twinCat then?

Absolutely i would, i'd end it across the world right now if it was upto me, you see, it's killing the planet, i couldn't give two f's about the money side of stuff, but i can and do realise, unlike yourself and other blinkered folk, that the burning of fossil fuels is going to kill us all........the strike, and the fight for jobs, is a totally different issue, totally.

[KerrAvon]

Absolutely i would, i'd end it across the world right now if it was upto me, you see, it's killing the planet, i couldn't give two f's about the money side of stuff, but i can and do realise, unlike yourself and other blinkered folk, that the burning of fossil fuels is going to kill us all........the strike, and the fight for jobs, is a totally different issue, totally.

Can you explain how it is a different issue? Whether the mines were to be closed for economic, political or environmental reasons is irrelevant to the issue of whether jobs would be lost.

Reading the posts on here, it's hard not to conclude that the jobs you were fighting for were dangerous and unpleasant ones that you didn't really want.

You are mistaken in your belief that I am a climate change denier, by the way. I think perhaps the head of steam that you developed on the fracking thread may have blinkered you on that point.

On the topic of the thread, I remember the programmes being talked about at school, but have never watched them. I may well do so when I am back in blighty.