[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Cherie Christmas

Basically it boiled down to cost, it's cheaper to import coal than to mine it here.
I don't know why Polish and Russian coal is so cheap, maybe it's heavily subsidised by their governments or maybe the pay nothing to their workers either way just like the collapse of British Steel due to cheap imports from China, the Government should have taken steps to save these industries.

Okay thanks for the explanation.

Yes it does sound sad that we didn't keep these Industries going, but I think it's always been a Tory tradition to have Industries by foreign companies whilst closing our Businesses down hasn't it?