What's that I can hear creaking?

Homer J

Great! Now i have that song by the Flying Pickets stuck in my head...Baa..da..da..bum...

northernneil

Homer J wrote:

Great! Now i have that song by the Flying Pickets stuck in my head...Baa..da..da..bum...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgDKtLPp46s

Frank the tank

ddraver wrote:

daviesee wrote:

Could it be the most ironic thing ever if Maggie saved this country by leaving us a fuel supply for once the oil & gas have run out?
Unfortunately there won't be any British miners left to get it out but the resource is still there.

do you know it's cheaper for the Steel works at Port Talbot to buy the coal they use in their power station from Australia than to buy it from a mine in S Wales. It's hard to argue that the mines are economical when that is the case.....

That is because the Aussie coal is open cast mined. At the time the pits were being closed the deep mined coal in this country was more expensive than foreign deep mined coal because the pits were getting nothing like the subsidies the likes of Polish coal was getting. In effect handicapping our coal mining industry.

Ben6899

Frank the tank wrote:

Oh Frickley visit us a week on Sat'day another chance to be mis-called. :evil:

I'd take what the Frickley faithful sing with a massive pinch of salt - my brother used to play for them and from memory: a majority of the supporters were too young to know what a 'scab' is!

bigeuan82

Almost certainly not the Daily Mail's headline once the inevitable finally happens.....

ddraver

Frank the tank wrote:

ddraver wrote:

daviesee wrote:

Could it be the most ironic thing ever if Maggie saved this country by leaving us a fuel supply for once the oil & gas have run out?
Unfortunately there won't be any British miners left to get it out but the resource is still there.

do you know it's cheaper for the Steel works at Port Talbot to buy the coal they use in their power station from Australia than to buy it from a mine in S Wales. It's hard to argue that the mines are economical when that is the case.....

That is because the Aussie coal is open cast mined. At the time the pits were being closed the deep mined coal in this country was more expensive than foreign deep mined coal because the pits were getting nothing like the subsidies the likes of Polish coal was getting. In effect handicapping our coal mining industry.

I know why it is but it does nt answer the question of what would/should we have done about it? Subsidise the British mines for the sake of keeping them open, even though no one was going to buy the coal?

tailwindhome

Ben6899 wrote:

Pross wrote:

Ben6899 wrote:

Jesus H Christ, I agree with spen!

Came a bit from left field didn't it?

It upset my Ying and Yang!

I'm scared

tailwindhome

Frankie Boyle on £3million for Thatchers funeral wrote:

For that money you could buy every person in Glasgow a shovel so they can dig a hole so deep they can hand her to Satan personally

Legend

Homer J

My old man is no miner but I'll know he'll loose no sleep over her passing away. As a kid i remember him having to hold down two jobs just to pay the mortgage, from what i remember it went up to around 15%, plus he still raves about how she sold everything off.

Frank the tank

ddraver wrote:

Frank the tank wrote:

ddraver wrote:

daviesee wrote:

Could it be the most ironic thing ever if Maggie saved this country by leaving us a fuel supply for once the oil & gas have run out?
Unfortunately there won't be any British miners left to get it out but the resource is still there.

do you know it's cheaper for the Steel works at Port Talbot to buy the coal they use in their power station from Australia than to buy it from a mine in S Wales. It's hard to argue that the mines are economical when that is the case.....

That is because the Aussie coal is open cast mined. At the time the pits were being closed the deep mined coal in this country was more expensive than foreign deep mined coal because the pits were getting nothing like the subsidies the likes of Polish coal was getting. In effect handicapping our coal mining industry.

I know why it is but it does nt answer the question of what would/should we have done about it? Subsidise the British mines for the sake of keeping them open, even though no one was going to buy the coal?

It's an irrelevant question now but, I'd have subsidised the mines to make our coal more affordable , so it would have been purchased. Also it would have kept a whole raft of people in the private sector in work who provided all the mining equipment etc.