So instead of keeping jobs in local communities and the money from those jobs being spent in those communities. Even tax collected by her majesty’s revenue. Instead unemployment benefit paid out to people who wanted to work.
Coal pouring in from Poland and Venezuela where kids were used in the mines.
Tell me how economical it is to close down mining communities and paying out on social benefits while importing coal and exporting money to Poland and Venezula for the coal.
I know for a fact pits were made to keep running old unprofitable seams so those pits could be shut because they were making a loss. Some of those pit had machine at the face of new seams the as soon as they were switched on would have put those pots straight into profitability.
It was a political decision not a financial decision of the Tories and that twat Thatcher.