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yes, retaining was offered to all miners, some took it up, others did not.
rubbish
you're a victim of the PR machine sludge. The long term trend indicated the mines would all be closed by 1984. The single biggest government decision to impact the South Wales mines was not Thatcher in the 80s but the government switching the Royal Navy to Diesel in the 1920s.
We know that , it was the way it was done
not sure of the point you're trying to make
are you saying the miners and others weren't sick and were in fact benefits cheats? I thought you said earlier in the thread benefits cheats don't really exist.
Thatcher invented incapacity benefit to park people on the sick rather than have them show up on the unemployment figures
I don't see a problem with this. The unions wanted to dictate government policy. We vote for our politicians to decide policy. Unions should stick to the workplace.
Bollocks
it was not cheaper Sludge, the world had moved on from coal. and why on earth would you want to propagate and maintain such a dangerous and unhealthy industry? miners may have formed strong communities, but it was at great expense to their health. Rather than seeing this as a political football ,we should be grateful that few of us now have to work in such conditions to put food on the table.
It was cheaper to keep people in work , spending money in their community rather than put them on benefits , its not difficult
it was not a worldwide crash, unless Australia, Canada, Russia, Japan, Norway et al all inhabit a different world to you
Of course it was , its described as a global financial crash because that's what it was , unless you , as a person I am unaware has written on the subject , thinks it wasn't? Don't stop believing mate
all politicians are sludge, you are just too blinded by dogma to see it.
Bollocks
we do, the libdems.
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