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Originally Posted by GEaston
Time to debate dead industries, lets start with Coal...
It's himself, Phelan: Myths and the miners strike
Now I know there are many here with Rose tinted glasses, not to mention a few miners. I'm interested to hear the counter arguments as to how the above is factually wrong, and in particular why this industry should have been kept alive at the taxpayers gigantic expense? |
If it really is time to debate why didn't you start this so called debate with your own opinions rather than drag up some link hoping that it will do the work you cannot be bothered to place on site yourself.
I think that investing in the pits during the seventies and eighties when we had monies coming in from gas and oil would have now given us a cheaper productivity and far more efficient mining industry which would have by now saved a fortune that is being wasted on imports.
It is only my opinion, I have no figures to back it up because we no longer have a coal industry so this conversation is perhaps mute and just placed on site by the thread starter in an attempt to make himself appear smart or else as an attempt to stir things further between the pro and anti Maggie factions.
Perhaps next time you attempt to start a debate you will make it one that is worthwhile, such as if we have three beans and meet a young man walking to market could we as true Tories fool this simpleton into exchanging his mothers best milking cow for them and how much tax on the said beast will we need to avoid paying before we can call the deal profitable?
