Thatchers and the Tory *******s finally exposed .

"About 6.1 gigawatts of UK coal plant capacity is expected to shut down by 2015 due to the European Union's Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD). The LCPD requires plants to reduce sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and particulate matter emissions. If plants choose not to comply, they can only operate for a further 20,000 hours - and must shut down for good by 2015."

http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/08/the-uk%E2%80%99s-power-plant-graveyards-what,-where,-and-why/

 

It was cheaper to import because :- (1) Other countries subsidised their coal industries and (2) Those that didn't, used child labour to mine their coal and still do to this day, are you comfortable with that. I'm not and never will be. I wonder how many of the "ruling classes" have a financial interest in foreign coal producers, including those that use child labour.

 

that is exactly what it was tyronne,it was also to end trade unionism as we knew it.

 

laws made up by eurocrats with interests in 'green energy.fcukin pathetic,and one reason why our electric bills are as high as they are.Clean coal burning was up and running in this country and the tories flattened it and sold it off to America.

 

Cheap coal is being imported from the USA, I don't think they use child labour.

 

you beat me to it,i was just about to put this.

 

Then its category 1 he quoted then thicko

 

I'm trying to show my support for my friends and family here who were on strike for 12 months

Having read your drivel I'm still not sure which side you support


But I will tell you one thing you can Ffs scargill as much as you want but he was right.

 

not only did our coal industry receive no subsidy we also had to pay a nuclear fuel levey on every tonne mined,another tory idea.

 

I don't see it as simply as that, some people like to make out that everyone in Barnsley worked down the pit or had a job that depended on the pits and then Thatcher came along and shut the pits and made everyone unemployed but there was probably higher unemployment in Barnsley in 1984 than there is now and mines had been closing since the 50s, Labour closed most of them in the 1960s, all we hear in Barnsley is "the Tories closed all the pits", no they closed the last ones but as ever Labour can do no wrong.

 

Are you seeing a psychiatrist I really think yo should, you may not realise it in your state but yo have just doe full Circle in your argument or whatever it was

 

This is the first post I've read in this thread, and I don't want to get into anything. I can say though, that for some people it really was like that. Every family I knew in my village (Grimethorpe) had someone who worked down the pit.

 

the difference was that the Barnsley pits shut by labour were on their last legs,whereas the majority of the pits shut by that lovely person thatcher were state of the art having just received massive investment to take them into the new milleneum.Incidently this investment is what the tories used to turn profitable pits into loss making ones.

 

Personally, the dissolution of the monasteries still rankles with me.

 

Who we now buy a third of our coal off

 

wrong shenk mate,we get 60% of our imported coal from russia

 

Also jobs we're guaranteed as although they were shutting pits (labour) it was because there weren't enough miners so the pits were sacrificed to staff up the existing ones.as people were leaving for other better paid/conditions post war industries

 

Don't think they use child labour either though.