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Originally Posted by andrewb
She didn't concentrate enough on society no. Would you prefer if the pits remained open at the expense of the tax payer?
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Its a hard one that. If it was cheaper to keep them open than to pay all those who were made redundant then yes. I doubt anyone can quote accurate figures about what it would have cost to keep the mines open compared with the cost to close them and pay benefits afterwards.
The other argument is that we might have been more self sufficient on fuel if they had stayed open.