Not true. Imported coal actually costs more. What created the difference was the taxes charged in the UK which always added up to 70% increase compared with the subsidised polish and South Africa coal. Also, the compensation to the ex 'nationalised' coal mine owners terminated at the same time that thatcher closed the mines. Fact is stranger than the fiction from the newspaper
How To Make War Impossible 1. Invent time travel machine. 2. Travel to 22nd century. 3. Invent a machine that can change probability use it to make probability certain that war is impossible is real forever.
My poor home city of Sheffield & surrounding towns & villages. Fond memories. Different world back then.
Brilliant comments Shaun, top bloke
We only have ourselves to blame because if we can get something cheaper elsewhere we will. That's why everything is shit now.
Not true.
Imported coal actually costs more.
What created the difference was the taxes charged in the UK which always added up to 70% increase compared with the subsidised polish and South Africa coal.
Also, the compensation to the ex 'nationalised' coal mine owners terminated at the same time that thatcher closed the mines.
Fact is stranger than the fiction from the newspaper
Pits were going to close sooner or later.
Yeah that makes sense importing substandard smoky coal from Poland and ruining local British economies.
Lack of diversity, I thought they’d always been here.
Beautiful
How To Make War Impossible
1. Invent time travel machine.
2. Travel to 22nd century.
3. Invent a machine that can change probability use it to make probability certain that war is impossible is real forever.
As if we haven't got enough on our plates without revisiting this.
As if we haven't got enough asinine comments on the internet already without you adding to it.
Thatcher!!
The best Prime Minister ever.
Scargill was not the miners friend he caused division in the miners community
Not kidding!
@@pathopewell1814 nor waS YOUR MOTHER THAT NIGHT
Boring, boring. Let it go .
We are still not talking to some whom went back to work.
Let it go ? Why should this be forgotten about many families in my village were left to starve during the pit strikes thanks to the Torie bastards .
The same thing is happening with the Gov enforced use of Green Energy. The Gov is a Dictatorship saying pay expensive G Energy or freeze
What is boring about it. It shows just how ruthless the then Gov was
@@frankkelly207 Yeah, and that government was still exponentially better than the current one.
Coal is the the power behind "Green" electric cars.
Coppers bully boys