douglas - // He's always struck me as a reasonable and fair-minded sort for a millionaire Tory. //
Speaking as someone who lives around the corner from what was one of the largest and deepest coal mines in Europe, and watched the decimation of my community caused by Heseltine importing cheap Polish coal under the guise of 'market forces', with the knock-on effect of the destruction of the entire domestic coal mining industry, I can't view has as in any way 'reasonable' or 'fair-minded', and you may find the other Stokies on here will echo that view.