Dear Ringer.

I was a miner and entered an industry where over 40% of payroll cost was on health and safety responsibility. Still, during my short eight years, two men died at my pit. The World Health Organisation in 1981 reported that our production was possibly the most efficient in the world given our good and improving safety and welfare costs. The cost of resource deployed to tonnage was by far the best in the world. That's why companies providing deep mine equipment were UK based. They knew which side their bread was buttered on.

I left not long after the strike. That was my choice. So did many employed to look after the rest of us. That wasn't their choice.

The cost of Polish and Australian coal increased pro rata our inability to provide our own. Good job her people were clever enough to see that coming? Vindictiveness I can understand. Incompetency I can understand. The combination known as Thatcherism is a lesson for history that it should never be repeated.

The best way to begin that is to ensure revisionists in London don't get away with their crocodile tears. Burn the bitch.