Post AkXKHgXiUidcuw3QP2 by TCMuffin@toot.wales
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 (DIR) Post #AkXKHfmZK0vMYhzlui by TCMuffin@toot.wales
       2024-08-01T19:09:52Z
       
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       A sobering and sad watch, especially for anyone who lived through the miners' strike...https://www.channel4.com/programmes/miners-strike-1984-the-battle-for-britain
       
 (DIR) Post #AkXKHgXiUidcuw3QP2 by TCMuffin@toot.wales
       2024-08-01T19:58:58Z
       
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       The worst of it was that Thatcher could have ameliorated the worst effects of the closure of the mines by planning and enabling new well paid jobs in the mining communities, but she chose to go to war with the unions 🤬Just like Cameron's failed austerity policy, it was a political choice aimed at those least equipped to fight the government 🤬
       
 (DIR) Post #AkXKHhHRkhDZClRwgK by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-08-01T22:12:05Z
       
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       @TCMuffin Unfortunately, succeeding governments for decades had refused to deal with the question of industrial retraining schemes, instead ordering the CEGB to build more coal-burning power stations (such as Drax). I've encountered some interesting Parliamentary debates on this question in ATOM, the magazine of the UKAEA.The Tories, we can presume, just didn't care ; Labour were apparently more afraid of breaking up safe constituencies in mining areas than interested in miners' well-being.