She was right for the wrong reasons on shutting down coal -- it's made the most meaningful contribution to the decline in UK carbon emissions. Given her scientific background, she was also early to recognising the impact of climate change -- I'm less keen on the solutions she offered to it though.
Well, yes, partly we should. There was recently a proposal to open a small open cast coal mine (in Cumbria, I think) specifically, or mainly, to supply this need. Killjoy powers that be soon put a stop to that - viva Russian coal, viva Indian steel!
So you'd both be happy for the Bluebell railway to close? It costs a lot to run it & a lot of hard work is put in by volunteers. Some of them stay overnight in makeshift 'sleeper' carriages so they can be there at a certain time in the morning to start everything up. I'm not saying that the mine shouldn't close but you both don't seem to care if things like the Bluebell railway have to close. It's a working museum that managed to get the line extended to Uckfield which some strange commuters actually use. Seems odd that you'd be happy for things like that to close.
Both huge renewable energy producers.
I don't think that subsidizing (nationalizing?) some coal mines in the UK is justified just to keep the Bluebell line open. In any case why can't 'we' import some coal from India for such purposes?
She said that Britain’s future was the finance sector and with that one statement made manufacturing a dirty word.
No it's not you losing the plot, but you & @Mustafa II seemed to be happy for things like that to close (just in general, as they use outdated fuel). Maybe I misread your contribution but Mustafa II seems to think we should shut the heritage lines down full stop as they use coal. I didn't say that the mine shouldn't be shut & I thought I made that clear (I probably didn't as it's been a loooong day). I'm not derailing the thread (do you see what I did there) by making the point that some things should get dispensation for using coal.
Yes, but Mustafa is a gold-plated idiot (as confirmed by a poll).No it's not you losing the plot, but you & @Mustafa II seemed to be happy for things like that to close (just in general, as they use outdated fuel). Maybe I misread your contribution but Mustafa II seems to think we should shut the heritage lines down full stop as they use coal. I didn't say that the mine shouldn't be shut & I thought I made that clear (I probably didn't as it's been a loooong day). I'm not derailing the thread (do you see what I did there) by making the point that some things should get dispensation for using coal.
No it's not you losing the plot, but you & @Mustafa II seemed to be happy for things like that to close (just in general, as they use outdated fuel). Maybe I misread your contribution but Mustafa II seems to think we should shut the heritage lines down full stop as they use coal. I didn't say that the mine shouldn't be shut & I thought I made that clear (I probably didn't as it's been a loooong day). I'm not derailing the thread (do you see what I did there) by making the point that some things should get dispensation for using coal.
the entire point of a steam train is they are running on the original old steam engines. an electric boiler negates this even if it were viable to swap in.
She wanted to sell the coal mines off, not close them down.
The irony is that Arthur Scargill appears to have been right all along
Now you're just being silly.
