No?
You mean you are not a stupid prat?
But some of you wanted coal to be subsidised?
Strange?
You mean you are not a stupid prat?
But some of you wanted coal to be subsidised?
Strange?
Would you subsidize a typewriter manufacturer?
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Not if it's cheaper than paying them to stay on the dole.
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I find your ideas strange.
Are you saying they are not good enough to find new work?
The coal was going to run out one day anyway, or would you then just pay them to dig up holes, and pay another lot to fill them in.
What a grand vision!
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There are a couple of hundred years of coal left. Just need to find cleaner ways of burning it.
What were all these other jobs that these miners found that proved so profitable for the UK?
What were all these other jobs that these miners found that proved so profitable for the UK?
The population of the UK has increased by nearly 10 million since the 1970s.
Yet unemployment is a few million.
Why should I have to sit here and list all the jobs, when the numbers clearly show they are there.
Why are these miner villages so incapable of finding or creating these new jobs, whilst everywhere else moves on?
At what point do we stop funding "unskilled" jobs just to keep the people in work, at what point do we accept the need to move on, or do we fund them indefinitely.
I think the latter option seems an easy option.
I find them qwerty
Funnily enough another consequence of the b*tch's ideological purge was the closure of the 'clean coal' research facility which was years ahead of it's time - and could very well have made us a market leader in the technology...
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I found it that funny I just clicked the ignore button by mistake.I find them qwerty
Makes me laugh. The UK coal industry declined over most of the last Century. Between the Wars it declined 40% due to increased overseas competition and cheaper fuel alternatives. Within 2 years of the miners strike coal production was back up to nearly pre-strike levels because the industry was more efficient, cleaner and safer to work in. But since then it has slowly declined due to costs. carbon cleansing, competition from other sources and other fuels and so on. The coal industry knows it's days are numbered but if the strike didn't happen or if the government of the day had just paid them what they wanted it would have ceased to exist years ago.
Plenty of cheap labour coming over in the next couple of years... maybe time to think about reopening a few of the old mines..
Great idea.
Only as tourist attractions though-- Romanian brass band and Choir would be great .
Would make much more money than mining for coal -for sure.
Maybe even get Max Boyce below ground also- singing his little head off and eating a Leek. ?.
Would be the best GIG Max has had for a long time .
Is he still alive ?. yakidar .
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