On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:10:44 +0100, "Jerry"
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"Derek Geldard" wrote in message
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Here we go again ...


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"Mining is an extractive industry (when the coal's gone it's gone) and
had been in trouble with mines closing since before the start of the
20th century. Maybe it's just as well that the railways had stopped
burning coal for their motive power and the iron and steel industry
had stopped using coal and the textile industry had folded with it's
big consumption of coal to feed the steam engines in the mills."

Yes, here we go again, more fantasist ******** from the defenders of
Thatcherism.

You find this fantastic?

Takes all sorts.

Derek