Howard Wilson was Prime Minister for five years. Thatcher for more than ten. I don't know about Wilson closing more mines than Thatcher but I'm pretty certain Labour did.
And why? The 1950s every train, nearly every power station and nearly every house was powered by coal. By the 1980s barely any train was, many power stations werent and gas central heating was in millions of homes.
Unfortunately this happened across the west. I don't dispute it was a very difficult time and a situation very badly handled by both Thatcher and Scargil IMO. I love the valleys and can see how some of the communities there took decades to recover, if at all in some cases.
Not sure who is selfish here, but given the appalling recent education figures for Wales, maybe the selfish ones are those who put their inherent political beliefs over those of the next generation? Just a thought.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/e...again-28216255
Originally Posted by JamesWales
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