Thatcher was not the cause of the Coal Mine industry collapse. As much as people like to attribute it to her.
The man to blame Is Arthur Scargill. He was searchng for a political platform to become an MP on. When the Coal Board decided to close a mere 20 mines out of near 300 at the time for the sensible reason of those mines no longer containing enough coal to be worth mining, Scargill jumped on the opportunity.
At this time Thatcher had inherited a declining economy, EVERYONE was suffering low wages, but Scargill lied to the miners unions and claimed it was a targeted attack on them by Thatcher, in the king her name trying to claim political clout.
The coal board closed the mines of their own volition.
So Scargill caused a strike and most coal mines around Nottingham etc downed tools.
Infighting occurred as it turned out any paychecks that were being sent out to those who still worked, were being sent to the unions first. Under the orders of Scargill no one got paid.
Then the pleas for aid and funding came out. Scargill put incoming funds into banks and trusts operated by himself and his friends.
Soon after the strikes broke. People went back to normal work at other mines because they couldn't afford otherwise.
It was later revealed in the 90s that scargill did not payout any of the donations received to the miners, spent thousands of pounds on a home for himself, squirreled more thousands away and even received donations of over a million from the Soviet Union to keep the strike going. (all open on wiki).
Thatcher was no angel, she ditched funding on housing (it fell by nearly 70%) and general food costs went up, which hit the poor line hard (which is where the hate comes from), but what many don't realise is during her time she raised NHS funding by over 30% giving it the then worldwide holy reputation, she improved policing to the modern era and took it out of the thug police 70s and massively improved education funding.
Thatcher was not the cause of the Coal Mine industry collapse. As much as people like to attribute it to her.
The man to blame Is Arthur Scargill. He was searchng for a political platform to become an MP on. When the Coal Board decided to close a mere 20 mines out of near 300 at the time for the sensible reason of those mines no longer containing enough coal to be worth mining, Scargill jumped on the opportunity.
At this time Thatcher had inherited a declining economy, EVERYONE was suffering low wages, but Scargill lied to the miners unions and claimed it was a targeted attack on them by Thatcher, in the king her name trying to claim political clout.
The coal board closed the mines of their own volition.
So Scargill caused a strike and most coal mines around Nottingham etc downed tools.
Infighting occurred as it turned out any paychecks that were being sent out to those who still worked, were being sent to the unions first. Under the orders of Scargill no one got paid.
Then the pleas for aid and funding came out. Scargill put incoming funds into banks and trusts operated by himself and his friends.
Soon after the strikes broke. People went back to normal work at other mines because they couldn't afford otherwise.
It was later revealed in the 90s that scargill did not payout any of the donations received to the miners, spent thousands of pounds on a home for himself, squirreled more thousands away and even received donations of over a million from the Soviet Union to keep the strike going. (all open on wiki).
Thatcher was no angel, she ditched funding on housing (it fell by nearly 70%) and general food costs went up, which hit the poor line hard (which is where the hate comes from), but what many don't realise is during her time she raised NHS funding by over 30% giving it the then worldwide holy reputation, she improved policing to the modern era and took it out of the thug police 70s and massively improved education funding.