The tories and Thatcher finished off the mining industry at a time of high unemployment and seemed to enjoy doing it. People out of work and with no jobs to go to.

Drive through plenty of old valley villages now and you can still see large old abandoned pubs which would have had trade after men finished work.

High youth unemployment as youngsters had no work to go to. Result crime drugs.

The highest percentage of mine closures i believe was by some distance Thatchers.