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Thatcher
Boris is now claiming that Thatcher gave the U/K an early start in Climate Change, by closing the coal mines down..... Absolute rubbish coming from Boris as usual....
.......Thatcher took the miners on because she Hated Scargill and the working class.
.......Thatcher took the miners on because she Hated Scargill and the working class.
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Thatcher was a despotical tyrant who deliberately ruined the manufacturin
14:17 Fri 06th Aug 2021
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Thatcher was commendably among the earliest conservatives to warn about climate change though she did not remain in power for much longer after she did so… she had a science background and had a better grasp of the issue than most tories then or now (and her religious/social convictions did not prevent her from caring about the problem as they did with AIDS). When people like ymb say that support for green policies is non-tory then they are being dishonest… it is clearly possible to be a green tory:
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Closing our coal mines was undoubtedly a net positive for the environment because coal is a dirty resource… though it was done in extremely cruel and socially destructive way with little regard for the communities left behind… it is disingenuous to say that Labour closed more: Labour and Tories closed hundreds of pits over 1945-1979 but both did so gradually and carefully to reduce harm without removing he economic backbone of individual communities…Thatcher rapidly closed 115 in a few years and in such a manner that was absolutely devastating to places like Yorkshire…
Unfortunately i think humanity has let the environmental problem get so bad that we are about out of time for gentle solutions… the responses we’ll be forced to take to the climate issue will make Thatcherism look like a picnic.
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Closing our coal mines was undoubtedly a net positive for the environment because coal is a dirty resource… though it was done in extremely cruel and socially destructive way with little regard for the communities left behind… it is disingenuous to say that Labour closed more: Labour and Tories closed hundreds of pits over 1945-1979 but both did so gradually and carefully to reduce harm without removing he economic backbone of individual communities…Thatcher rapidly closed 115 in a few years and in such a manner that was absolutely devastating to places like Yorkshire…
Unfortunately i think humanity has let the environmental problem get so bad that we are about out of time for gentle solutions… the responses we’ll be forced to take to the climate issue will make Thatcherism look like a picnic.
The one who closed the most pits in one 6 year term from 1957 to 1963 was Harold Macmillan (Conservative) with 246, and ‘nobody noticed’, not even me until I researched the figures. Kellingley in North Yorkshire was the last deep mine in Britain and closed in December 2015 bringing to an end at least 1,000 years of underground coal mining.
Thatcher was a despotical tyrant who deliberately ruined the manufacturing base of this country, to the benefit of her husbands cronies, and to the detrement of millions of people who she knew would face years and years of hardship. Some areas have never recovered. She should have been hanged in Parliament Square for treason. She did more harm to the industry of this country than Adolf Hitler ever did. But some people profited from it. They must have done, otherwise they wouldn't say she was of any use.
