[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Claymores

Another point of disagreement Shas - Thatcher vs Scragill became a battle of wills. In my area we have the highest quality of coal deep-mined and there is a deep seam that runs under the Forth. Regretrully, Thatcher's battle with Scargill resulted in the mines becoming flooded so it became unecomonic to restart working them and the pitheads are now housing estates. Fife used to get trains to run the crapola you're talking about from Central Scotland to fire it's slag burning power stations.

Of course it became a battle of wills, but the points you make dont disagree with my comments in fact they support them. Thatcher didnt close any mines, it was the economics of reopening them that actually destroyed the mining industry, to save a few hundred jobs Scargill brought the industry down, costing thousands of jobs. It was the same in the area where I was raised.