It really isn’t. It’s because of several decades of government policy which treats houses as investments rather than homes; where profit is the only motive, developers are given a free rein, and absolutely zero consideration is given to housing need. It’s not helped by a selfish generation who bought their homes 30 years ago, watched them treble in price, decided they were Rothschild and started voting Tory. Only for their children to be stuck at with them at 28 because there’s no affordable homes for them to move into.
Good grief you're thick. Staffy comes in with a corker that proves Aldo's claims about the English electorate to be 100% accurate.
Today's generation is the first ever, that's ever folks, in the whole of history, since Jesus was a chippy making cabinets in Nazareth, to be worse off than the previous. Think about that when you are hero worshipping the great Tory figurehead ya spanner.
Thatcher was branded a far right scumbag for closing the coal mines and putting folk out of work. Trump was called a far right scumbag for keeping them open and folk in work. As our American cousins say, go figure
Bit of a stretch that. Trump has so far created zero mining jobs. All he’s done is made it easier for open caste mining companies to rape the environment; oh, and drive an oil pipeline through the Dakota Hills National Park, overturning the previous administrations decision to suspend it on environmental grounds. They aren’t opening any new mines; he’s just bending over to allow the big mining firms who these days employ very few people, to ignore their responsibilities to the environment. And Thatcher’s real crime wasn’t closing mines; it was abandoning those mining communities to their fate.
174,000 is quite a high number. 174,000 what though, and from where? I mean, a million billion gazillion is also a big number, so what?
I disagree. The deindustrialisation of the UK was criminal. The lies they told while doing it even more so.
174,000 Yanks employed by the coal industry, wtf else could I mean Fact is it's mostly white working class. It was fine in the 70s/80s to want the white working class to do well. It's racist now because it doesn't fit into the identity politics the likes if Labour and the Democrats are selling. Ipso facto.
The mines were running at a loss and had to be heavily subsudised, it made no sense to keep them open
So not 174,000 new jobs then? The rest of your post is tribal bollocks, you should try and get out of your Belfast bubble mate.
De-industrialision was politically motivated and incredibly damaging. The days of coal were numbered though. But a lot more could and should have been done to prepare those communities for new industries.
