[the truth]

Originally Posted by hijaxers

Hey wouldn't it be great if all the miners turned up and threw coal at her coffin !!

the miners are above this, they showed way more dignity than she ever did. the miners are heroes to a man. theres a 1000 years of world class coal left , but she flooded the mines after shutting them. thankfully slowly but surely theyre reopening several drift and open cast mines in wales. no one in SOUTHERN england seems to begin to appreciate what king coal means to the welsh, there is also the abandonment of the slate quariies, the lime, the wool, the gold , the silver, the copper, the steel too.....cardiff was the single biggest coal exporter IN THE WORLD...the 1st ever million pound business deal on record took place at the coal exchange in tiger bay....all the gold you see on the queens throne and the house of lords is ALL pure welsh gold. wales is the oldest inhabited part of the UK and perhaps its for this reason its grown so rich in some resources or perhaps this is why the original britions lived in wales.

mining had taken place in wales for at least 750 years, hirwaun was the biggest coal pit in the world, blaenavon alone had 130 drift mines, hundreds of thousands flocked to wales for this massive industiral revolution, visit cardiff bay (tiger bay) today and you will still find a multi cultural happy community where many people are black or mixed race. they were welcomed with open arms and the local working class people showed very little racism towards them. ask any black person from that area and he / she will confirm this remarkable community of people.

the blaenau ffesitniog slate quarry is sstill the biggest in the world and all those communites were 100% self sufficient building homes from the slate, fuelled by the coal and exporting to the world via cardiff and llandudno, wales also produced 66% of the entire worlds copper using recipes 4000 years old and refined in the great orme north wales, it was this ingeuity that gave the welsh the reputation for being mercurial and mystical people and lead to them using the mythical dragon as its national emblm... they were living the dream in many ways

Ive read the 5th century mabinogion and the welsh/britons were a free spirited people, they didnt wish to have leaders or to be lead. this ultimately made them relatively peaceful home loving self sufficient tribes. but also made them vulnerable to attacks by the vikings, the anglo saxons and the french in future centuries...

all the coal and copper and cannonballs for lord nelsons ships were produced in wales, the copper was placed on the bottom of british ships and made them unsinkable which in turn helped him defeat the french and ultimately let britain rule the waves for a few centuries

delighted to say though tata has a huge mine reopening in port talbot to fuel its steel works , still the largest in the uk. theyve used new methods of drilling to find the rich seams easier and as a drift mine will be able to use machinery to find this coal with far less danger, ill health and greater safety.
the little steam trains remain and the coal mining expertise remains and has been passed on from one generation to another. when the welsh suffered harship they quietly left and took their industrial expertise to argentina, pennsylvania (usa) and russia to name but a few. their ingenuity in these areas and in forming the unions to run them proved massively successful. welsh communities were built and pennsylvania was named after welsh immigrant william penn, they settled there as the place best suited to their industrial agenda and also most similar to wales itself.

maggie thatchers destruction of coal will be remembered but the spirit and heritage of these great people will outlast her disastrous industrial legacy