"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

In article ,
Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:
He probably thinks it was because of the miners strike that all the
pits were closed.

The pits were closed because they were unworkable, mainly because of the
actions of Scargill and co, trying to hold the country to ransom.

And the members of Democratic Union of Mine workers (sorry if that's not
the exact name) are all still in work mining coal?

Don't be silly, they were Thatcher's puppets although they were far to
stupid to realise it at the time.

Yet another legacy of Thatcher:

Once upon a time a tired driver fell asleep at the wheel and veered
off the road, down an embankment and his land rover and trailer ended
up on a railway line. Moments later a passenger train hit it at high
speed and derailed. The train stayed upright and It was a perfectly
survivable accident for all on board the passenger train right up
until some considerable distance from the original collision it
catastrophically hit a slow moving freight train coming the other way,
left the lines completely, overturned and killed 10 people.

All this death and heartache - despite their being a direct and
dedicated freight line from a local mine with the *best* productivity
in the British coal industry to a local power station five miles away
it was preferred by the private operators of the power station
(another industry decimated by Thatcher and her minions) to fetch coal
from the other side of the world by bulk carrier, transport it by rail
with the last sector being along a route shared with high speed
passenger traffic.

Thatcher has blood all over her hands.


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