Ironically if we decided to go back to deep mine collierys you would be hard pressed to find anyone willing to work in one.
@4-dman464 Жыл бұрын
That's true - - except it's also true you'd be hard pressed to find anyone willing to work in the job they've actually got today, with its longer hours for less pay and less holidays and less rights. But they've got to, post-1980s. That's the deeper irony.
@west_ldn_xxx5549 Жыл бұрын
I don't think so, look at the salaries of gurners, the benefits they receive and how quickly they retire in, for example, Poland. There is no shortage of people willing to do this job and mining traditions are maintained from generation to generation.
@ADZ019826 ай бұрын
Completely disagree. Coal jobs where always well paid. Great opportunitys for young lads and lasses.
@JamesRichards-mj9kw5 ай бұрын
@@ADZ01982 It was dangerous work that should have been phased out during the 1960s.
@ADZ019825 ай бұрын
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw As in most industries health and safety wasn't at here it should back then. But it 2024 it will be alot better now.
@4-dman464 Жыл бұрын
When the country had a spine and political awareness.
@ashleyparry2470 Жыл бұрын
The side of history that should be taught in schools
@mikeluscher159 Жыл бұрын
Didn't Nissan move into Sunderland a few years later?
@trytellingthetruth.2068 Жыл бұрын
The miners didn't do themselves any favours in the mid 1970's holding the country to ransom and when Labour came to power demanding a pay increase and Labour giving them a 35% increase in 1974 and again in 1975. Thatcher wasn't going to allow the miners to do the same in the early 80's and now look, no mining industry and having to import coal from around the world. Absolutely crazy.
@vikingsmb8 ай бұрын
totally agree, and this needs to be told to certain parts of south wales who think it was all maggies fault, but it wasn't though
@stephenduncan36056 ай бұрын
Thatcher should NEVER have been voted in in the first place.
@vikingsmb6 ай бұрын
Grow up
@JamesRichards-mj9kw5 ай бұрын
@@stephenduncan3605 The Soviet agent Wilson closed twice as many coal mines as Thatcher did.
@teaplease10006 ай бұрын
This was the moment the working people lost confidence in the police.
@JamesRichards-mj9kw5 ай бұрын
The police were too lenient during the illegal strike.
@MarkHarrison7339 ай бұрын
Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.