Britain has the highest industrial energy prices in the International Energy Association (IEA). Energy intensive manufacturing industries (EIIs) have contracted more sharply than other sectors since 2021. Real output of EIIs is down a whopping 33.6%
chat gpt says... . Economic Inefficiency Many coal mines were losing money and heavily subsidized by the government. British coal was becoming more expensive than imported alternatives, especially due to cheaper coal from overseas. The Conservative government saw continued subsidies as unsustainable in the long term. 2. Shift Toward Market Economy Thatcher aimed to reduce the role of the state in the economy (a key part of her free-market ideology). She wanted to privatize state-owned industries, including energy, and reduce the power of trade unions. Closing loss-making mines aligned with her broader strategy of economic liberalization. 3. Confrontation with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) The NUM, led by Arthur Scargill, had brought down the previous Conservative government in 1974 with a miners’ strike. Thatcher was determined not to be defeated by unions and took on the NUM directly. The government stockpiled coal, prepared alternate energy sources, and used police to keep mines open and control strikes. 4. Energy Policy Shifts The UK was beginning to exploit North Sea oil and gas, reducing its dependence on coal. There was growing awareness of the need to diversify energy sources.
Surprised the Gammonistards haven't put a link up to this ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3vqxp9nn3o
Boris has a row with his wife, we get told the details, such as a spilled wine etc. and daily coverage with interviews with neighbours. Starmer has a house he owns, his former car, and a property he is associated with firebombed by a migrant rentboy and friends...crickets. He had an aids test quite recently too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ce85lg649z8o
Owen Jones and The Grauniad reinforcing their credentials as far right white supremacists. Just why has Keir Starmer’s government proved such a catastrophe? This is a question that must be posed to his cheerleaders, or at least those who were at one time cheerleaders: the road from the last general election is lined with silently discarded pompoms. The idea here is not to rub their faces in a political project that is now both electorally toxic and morally bankrupt, but to determine what happens next. The real problem is clearly this: Starmer, an empty vessel who wanted to be prime minister for its own sake, made a pact with the most cartoonishly Blairite factionalists that Labour has to offer. Starmer and his allies spent so long attacking Labour’s left, they forgot how to govern
Perhaps these groups you're referring to, whoever they may be aren't big enough ****s to try and make sport of a guy where all sides seem to agree he has mental health/emotional issues.
The number of coal mines closed during Wilson's two terms as PM was more than double the number closed during Thatcher's three terms. Yet you specifically blame her for killing British mining. Why is this?
.... errrrr perhaps because she killed coal mining in Britain ... it still existed after Wilsin's tenure ... not that difficult really ...
The most recent application for a pit was refused by this current Labour Government earlier this year, so not exactly 'dead'.
