As little as that, eh, youngmaf!?
"vhg...not sure why you put mining like this... "mining" "
The reason is, mikey, that these areas are no longer mining areas. They haven't been so for thirty years. The problem is that many of the people living there still believe they are, people who haven't been down a coal mine for thirty years (and many who haven't been down a coal mine at all) still regard them as mining areas, and people who have never been to the area, were not born in 1979, and who like to associate themselves with every protest movement that surfaces out of the rag bag that is the Left like to regard them as “mining” areas.
We don’t mine coal in the UK in any quantity any more in the UK for the same reason as we no longer spin cotton, we no longer make plastic toys to go into boxes of Corn Flakes, we no longer manufacture cutlery. It’s because other people do it more efficiently. Stuff happens and when it does you get on with it, don’t keep harping about how your life has been devastated by events of thirty years ago (which would have happened anyway with or without Mrs T, only over a longer and more painful period) and make the best of life that you can. There’s nothing to forgive Lady Thatcher for.