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Originally Posted by ianch99
Not sure why you wasted your effort here. Of course the current strategy is away from fossil fuel energy production.
The reply was specifically addressed at an attempt at misinformation ..
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I already addressed your claim of misinformation.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/l...-mines-2401926
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Between 1963 and 1979, Labour governments closed a total of 303 collieries. Successive Conservative governments shut 162 mines. Even the left-of-centre Energy Minister, Tony Benn, recognised the economic argument and closed more coal mines than Margaret Thatcher and Michael Heseltine put together.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_m...United_Kingdom
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Between 1947 and 1994, some 950 mines were closed by UK governments. Clement Attlee’s Labour government closed 101 pits from 1947-‘51, Macmillan (Conservative) closed 246 pits from 1957-‘63, Wilson (Labour) and Heath (Conservative) collectively closed 253 between 1964-’76, Thatcher (Conservative) closed 115 between 1979-'90.
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Hardly a great deal in it. The true answer to "Who made more miners redundant Conservative or Labour" is of course Arthur Scargill.