Leekbrookgull
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What is the problem,if any government wants green/renewable fossilhas to go. As for communities they have sadly long gone well before M/T. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58117044:dunce:
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[News] Boris and coal mining.
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Beach Hut
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Before the OP answers his own thread first, usual political garbage deserves as a serial thread starter the accolade BBC1, weekdays 17:15
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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You're not wrong there mate...
Fat Boy Fat
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I don’t think for one minute Margaret Thatcher was thinking of green issues when she destroyed the UK’s mining industry. Boris clearly not understanding or showing any empathy for whole communities IS the problem. The man is an insensitive clown, simple!
I miss those tags that used to be at the foot of the thread……’ Must start daily thread’ usually made me smile.
Beach Hut
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I agree
- Jul 10, 2003
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I love this quote from someone I was chatting with his week
'Yes, of course Cummings was an egotistical **** with ideas way above his abilities, but at least he was an Egotistical **** with ideas way above his abilities WITH A PLAN'
'Yes, of course Cummings was an egotistical **** with ideas way above his abilities, but at least he was an Egotistical **** with ideas way above his abilities WITH A PLAN'
Leekbrookgull
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Love it B/H GO FOR IT. Respect. 
rogersix
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- Jan 18, 2014
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Love it B/H GO FOR IT. Respect.
does this mean anything to anyone?
Leekbrookgull
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Come on bn9/BH go for it. 
Absolutely nail on head there!
Leekbrookgull
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Probably not.
nicko31
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Trolley Johnson loves August for a bit of attention seeking, I remember back in 2018 he did his Letterbox Muslim column in the Telegraph. He knew what he was doing, the racists loved it!!
But this stuff on coal mines, who the f**k is he appealing to?
But this stuff on coal mines, who the f**k is he appealing to?
newhaven seagull 85
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- Dec 3, 2006
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Anybody stupid enough to listen.
So you'd rather live in the filthy, sooty, black slum that was England before natural gas was piped into all our homes?
The fantastic mining industries and communities became obsolete almost overnight in Britain and around the world.
That's what humans do - evolve! That's why we currently live in a gigabyte super digital streaming world of data and information and have cast away the ink pens and blotting paper etc of my childhood.
One thing that will never change though - is humans ability to produce garbage!
I'm not so sure about that. Of course, it wasn't the main reason she took on the miners, nor even the secondary reason, but she was fully aware of some of the environmental issues too - she was well ahead of the game compared to most politicians at the time
Fat Boy Fat
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So it wasn't about an ideological desire to crush the unions then like she further did when joining forces with Rupert Murdoch to destroy the print unions a couple of years later - or was that to further her green credentials too!
Her dalliance with climate change was luke warm (excuse pun) by 1990 and she went on to reject many of Al Gore's now widely accepted views on climate change and green issues in her memoirs.
So no, I don't think it was about saving the planet...
Fat Boy Fat
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I am making an assumption that your last sentence isn't referring to my post as "garbage" and that you mean mankind's abity to produce garbage.
This idea of soot blackened slums hardly stands either, or that of evolution. The industry was destroyed for political gain, nothing else and the Tories were fortunate to have Arthur Scargill at the fore in the miners Union as he was quite easy to dislike!
dsr-burnley
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- Aug 15, 2014
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Why are people so sentimental about the days of the three day week, afternoon football matches because they couldn't use the lights, and candles in every home for when the power went off? When if you wanted a telephone installed, you had to wait for months? When the bodies lay unburied and the ambulance union leader said that it was worth someone dying if his members got their pay rise? When riotous assemblies outside a steelworks were the norm, because the people who had killed off their income by refusing to dig up coal wanted to ensure that other people should suffer for their benefit? I realise that some people look back on the seventies with fond affection and wish we could all go back there. I don't.