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Originally Posted by claytonender
Try telling all the people in mining communities that the closure of the pits was a good decisions.
Andrew have you ever been made redundant?
Maybe when you have experienced the feeling of worthlessness that the experience brings, not to mention the worry of how you will provide for your family. Then you can start to lecture us on how good Thatcher's decisions were.
It is all well and good reading books and going to lectures about what happened under Thatcher. But there are many of us who know what long term devastation the evil woman has made to society.
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Its just a pity the same hue and cry wasn't made of the demise of the lancashire cotton industry in the sixties, the fact is Scargill wasn't interested in the miners interests but his own communist agenda to bring down the Tory Government. Wasn't it the General secretary of the TUC who said after the miners strike Arthur went into the strike with a big union and a little house and came out the other side with a small union and a big house
