Quote Originally Posted by imagine View Post
i think closing down the mines was like cutting off your nose to spite your face, the reason she shut the mines was to kill off the stronghold of the unions, which weakened and eventualy destroyed the unions, the unions brought their destruction on themselves through striking for winnie ninni things,

but to destroy the mines was a wicked thing to do to our country, those mines had many years left in them and at the time was well worth modernisation
Coal had been a decaying industry for years, history was re-written by Labour and they keep repeating it until they believe it is true :-

Declining number of pits under Wilson & Callaghan

1964 .. 545
1965 .. 504
1966 .. 442
1967 .. 406
1968 .. 330
1969 .. 304

1974 .. 250
1975 .. 241
1976 .. 239
1977 .. 231
1978 .. 223
1979 .. 219

Declining Number of pits under Mrs Thatcher

1979 .. 219
1980 .. 213
1981 .. 200
1982 .. 191
1983 .. 170
1984 .. 169
1985 .. 133
1986 .. 110
1987 .. 94
1988 .. 86
1989 .. 73
1990 .. 65