Then why are we still importing them and how much has it cost the country in imports since the bitch closed the pits?
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yoda
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Whine all you want but if it's not economical to get the stuff out of the ground then then what is the point, I will give you the name of another great british engineering company that will go down the pan if it does not change direction in the next couple of years, Rolls Royce, within 5 to 10 years planes will be electric powered and if RR don't get at the forefront within a couple of years they will struggle, which politician would we blame that on ?
Change is constant guys, embrace it or fall behind.
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If planes are going to be electric you will need a long flex if you are flying from Manchester to say Munich. And I guess the EU will want the plug to go in a UK socket so we pay for the power supply.
yoda
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I don't whine! I am merely stating fact. Thatchers actions had nothing to do with economics. It was all about winning a personal battle with the miners union leaders and the miners themselves and their families (and my company) were collateral damage that she didn't care a hoot about as long as she won her personal battle. Uncaring bitch.
yoda
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That is economics though, the economics of the country, how much where the actions of the miners and general workers unions costing the country ? (at the time both controlled by communists by the way)
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OnlyOneTugay
Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
Par for the course in nationalised industries . Run by communist led Unions , cushy jobs for their members with customers coming bottom of the list . British Leyland was a perfect example . Macron has seen the light and is following Margaret’s example - but it’s taken France 40 years .
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Quite right, but remember that it's still there Abbey and it will be when the cheaper overseas coal is exhausted and energy sources are at a premium.
The more nationalised industries, the more public servants, the more Labour voters and the less productive the nation becomes.
yoda
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Uncaring !
how would you describe what is happening now in this country
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Sad isn't it? Surely it's about time we put our own people first.
How much do you think it cost the country to pay all the miners unemployment pay after their workplaces were closed?
My personal hatred of the bitch is that she closed down the company that employed a lot of skilled engineers in Blackburn, that I was a director of, and had been employing people since 1896. I actually walked into a much better job in Manchester, starting our own company, but it was not so great for the guys off the shop floor. Not that it mattered to the uncaring bitch. No wonder she gave the tories, who I support incidentally, a bad name. It is one aspect of conservatism that I cannot defend.
It's no fucking good in the ground and by the time other countries' supplies have been exhausted the world will have switched to an alternative source of power. Our natural resource has been completely wasted to fuel a bitch's personal battle.
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ABBEY
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I'm sure that's a great comfort to the families of our pit villages Gordon.
I told my uncle what you said and he said tell your mate to f;;k himself with a rusty pick axe .
I told my uncle what you said and he said tell your mate to f;;k himself with a rusty pick axe .
OnlyOneTugay
Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
I was told by a senior figure in the industry that when the local textile industry was lobbying Barbara Castle to stem the flow of cheap imports , she said that if a cotton mill in Blackburn closes , but one opens in India then she'd be happy with that . Labour governments allowed the Lancashire cotton industry to die and lots of skilled and good people lost their jobs . East Lancashire towns have had to cope with that . We've had to suffer the pain just like those Yorkshire mining towns . For them it was coal for us it was cotton. Maybe we didn't get the publicity they did because Lancastrians whine less and get on with things
Margaret Thatcher had to battle with communist trade union leaders who were determined to send the UK down the plughole and weren't far off achieving that goal . The left love to hate and spew their bile at anyone who disagrees or stands up to them. If you want to apportion blame then look no further than Scargill and his fellow Union bully boys , who wanted to ruin and then run the country ( and did under Callaghan's Labour) Mrs Thatcher had to win the war , yes there were casualties along the way but we came close to losing our democracy . - for that she deserves a sainthood .
Just imagine the state we'd be in if the likes of Scargill and Co had defeated Maggie's Government . If Corbyn's anti Semite lot ever get in you won't need to , we'll be back to 1978 in the blink of an eye - but with a cherry on top if this is anything to go by .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42688288
Where is the new Maggie ? Our great country might need her sooner than we think .
Margaret Thatcher had to battle with communist trade union leaders who were determined to send the UK down the plughole and weren't far off achieving that goal . The left love to hate and spew their bile at anyone who disagrees or stands up to them. If you want to apportion blame then look no further than Scargill and his fellow Union bully boys , who wanted to ruin and then run the country ( and did under Callaghan's Labour) Mrs Thatcher had to win the war , yes there were casualties along the way but we came close to losing our democracy . - for that she deserves a sainthood .
Just imagine the state we'd be in if the likes of Scargill and Co had defeated Maggie's Government . If Corbyn's anti Semite lot ever get in you won't need to , we'll be back to 1978 in the blink of an eye - but with a cherry on top if this is anything to go by .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42688288
Where is the new Maggie ? Our great country might need her sooner than we think .
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ABBEY
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I do believe I've been sick a little in my mouth
OnlyOneTugay
Prediction Champion 2019 & 2020
Yeah Abbey , I've just read that Lambert's got the Stoke job too 
So she actually did you a personal favour then?
'The only constant in life is change'. There were many 'jobs for life' back then Al and for any number of reasons there are very few these days. Mrs Thatcher was ousted 27 years ago and I've not seen much effort from any govt to alter that fact.
The armed forces have had their numbers cut since then, the car industry will be churning out more cars with fewer man hours in them etc etc. How about you Abbey? You've liked Al's criticism of Mrs Thatcher but tell us what happened to all the girls on the switchboard on Duke St... and what could have been done about it?
As far as I can see before the Thatcher era the real demise of Blackburn was heralded by the demise of King Cotton. Lots of industry fed off that and created much wealth and most have fallen by the wayside since and none of the blame for that can be laid at Thatcher's door can it?
btw What products did your company produce?
sorry oot.. I've rather copied the content of your post.
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Nonsense. It's still there and you have no idea what technology will come into being to make it a valuable commodity once the oil starts to run out.
btw What was the personal battle and who with?
Well whoopy do. Who wants to be popular with the few when the good of the majority is at stake?