Quote Originally Posted by Once U shop, U can't stop View Post
This is such a crass comment.
The bottom line is, yes it's about economics.
Remember that in South Wales, a good proportion of miners were men who had moved from the West Country to find work and for years were paid better that farm workers. Sure, the owners made money, but the miners earned a living too - better than they had.
Out of work miners after the strike were helped financially. They weren't left entirely in the lurch.
And your mindset is entirely anti-Thatcher.
I didn't and don't support her, but I know that much of this trouble was stirred up by Scargill and his red cohorts who had their own agenda and used their union members as pawns in their political game. How much of the woes of the miners and their families can be laid at Scargill's door?
You’re concentrating on the miners and their families when it’s wiser to look at the bigger picture of the effect on the whole area not just the pit communities. The crucial sentence in Sludge’s post that you were replying to is ‘When areas rely heavily on industry, the removal of that industry should be gradual and other employment provided’. Thatcher and her cohorts didn’t want this, they wanted an already crowded existing labour pool to be flooded to overflow. Resulting in wages stagnating or even dropping in real terms due to establishment’s mantra of ‘take it or leave it’. The things that woman done to this country and the aftermath which still resonates to this day was unforgivable.