Quote Originally Posted by pipster View Post
My point is a there is no difference between a pit being closed under Wilson than there was under Thatcher (you seem to think there was). A closed pit is a closed pit, except that Wilson did more of them than Thatcher.
Your point is bollocks

Thatcher closed pits for political reasons

Which is why she stockpiled loads of coal before the strike started

If we didn't need the coal .....which she said we didn't......why did we have people starving on picket lines because the government had decided that coal wasn't wanted......yet loads shipped in via Hull kept industry going

You are a clown