Talk about re writing history. Our "beloved leader" is now suggesting that Maggie closed the pits to give the UK a head start on becoming a "green" economy. What an absolute tool this man is and I sincerely hope that the "red wall" voters are proud of getting the buffoon elected. Ironically, 40 years on, there would have needed to be a move away energy generated from coal. However, did this government not just allow a new open cast coal mine in Cumbria: www.theguardian.com/business/202 ... reen-light Nice one Boris

Talk about re writing history. Our "beloved leader" is now suggesting that Maggie closed the pits to give the UK a head start on becoming a "green" economy. What an absolute tool this man is and I sincerely hope that the "red wall" voters are proud of getting the buffoon elected. Ironically, 40 years on, there would have needed to be a move away energy generated from coal. However, did this government not just allow a new open cast coal mine in Cumbria: www.theguardian.com/business/202 ... reen-light Nice one Boris

You can add to this a new oil field which apparently they must go ahead with because you cannot rip up a signed contract. Is this not the same PM who threatened to rip up the EU contract he signed because he hadn’t understood what he was signing so it didn’t count.
The green speech she gave was as a result of the Green Party receiving 15% of a vote and they were worried. The pits were just collateral damage for a fight against the NUM whose pension scheme they have been taking funds from ever since. I wonder how those in Nottingham felt when despite backing her and her promise to support them resulted in their pits still closing as they were warned.

Who has been taking funds from the NUM pension scheme ?

Yes both used the same conditions but one party wanted to give 1.2b back and adjust the agreement whilst the other who is now PM promised he would sort it out but has decided not to bother.

As opposed to Arthur Scargill who went into the strike with a big union and a small house... Came out of it with a small union and a big house.

The bungalow on Sheffield Rd at Worsborough is still there although I don't know who owns it now, perhaps it was sold to buy the apartment in the Barbican in Central London, unless he pillocked the NUM to buy it for him.

No the poor suckers who went down the mines bought that for him . Took his own union to court as well when they wanted to sell it.

I bet you weren't slagging her when her and her government sold off the council houses you live in, especially when some of your mates sold them on for a tidy profit. cheers maggie

Worth 5million is Arthur

I can certainly say I had no liking for Thatcher or any of her policies regardless on her views on council houses, even those used by her friend in Westminster to gerrymander the elections. It’s a shame the money from house sales went to central government rather than the local authorities who built them.
It became obvious why she was known as Margaret Thatcher milk snatcher.

It did not stop you buying one though did it unless of course your still a council tenant, I can to a point understand your bitterness towards the Tory party as like a lot on this board grew up having Labour rammed down your throat, and because your parents and their parents voted Labour you feel the need to do the same out of false loyalty, but are you that desperate to bring up things from 40 plus years ago because having trotted out the same old, same old stuff about Boris your quickly running out of material, you need to seek help squire and get a life, go on liberate yourself you'll feel better for it, concentrate on Wakefield Trinity and how you can help them, give Michael Carter a ring and offer him some help and advice, far more satisfying and rewarding than trying to put the world to rights on here

I cannot believe I have another who thinks they know the person I am. I am not a council tenant and I did not buy it from them either just to correct your initial assumptions. The reason I despised Thatcher I also worked out myself when I came across her work to stop the young by increasing the A level threshold which meant despite two years of hard work their results were lower and they struggled to enter university. I drag up something from so long ago because it was a sign of the person she was by taking the 1/3 pint of milk provided at school.
With regards Boris he is just the leader who keeps on giving the latest being money spent on unnecessary paintings. He is happy to approve a boat costing 250m + but doesn’t like funding children’s meals. The sleaze will continue to grow and once the shadow of the pandemic recedes people will finally start to take notice. I look forward to those so called red wall Conservatives going out to the destroyed mining towns to explain his pre planned joke about how they were sacrificed for the planet earth.

You seriously need to get a life, quick question do you live anywhere near Neil Fox way by any chance?

Never mind trying to identify who may be posting.
Is Thatcher really the Grandmother of the green revolution, I dont think so and is the current self serving PM actually bothered about genuine "green" policies ?
The real issue here is the number of people on the planet and the consumption of those billions, which is the polar opposite of the capitalist ideals that most of the world follows.
Things will certainly get interesting over the next century or so and whilst we will all of departed the planet by then, there should be some thought on how "we" leave the place for future generations.