And for those who thought democracy was over rated....

Mind you, my views of Th*tcher apart, I must take a little bit of issue with Al's comment about lads in mining communities being not so well educated. I appreciate you were trying to do so, but the statistics were not quite as bad as you think.

When I got my engineer's ticket (basically a HNC called AMEME (hons) it sounded good but at Manton pit back then, the other electricians included twenty odd BSc, a smattering of MSc and to my recollection, eight of us were chartered engineers. I ended up with a PhD, and my son, who also used to work down the pit is presently researching his. Every lad down the pit since the mid '60s had spent a year minimum at college before even taking out labouring jobs such as haulage.

it was a skilled job regardless of what you did and that became part of the problem. Highly intelligent skilled people but the training and qualifications were not much use outside of mining. That's the awful legacy, lack of transferable skills when industry as a whole was on its knees.

That's why her lack of understanding of her own citizens caused so much hardship and grief.

That's why she felt she could call her own citizens "the enemy within."

That's why I hope she rots in Hell.