This argument over the ever Blessed Maggie and the coalminers has been explained very carefully to you before shaw. Now pay attention. The UK mining industry had been in serious decline for decades before Maggie came on the scene. Scargill merely fast forwarded the inevitable. Polish coal is imported into Britain and Ireland because it is cost competitive. No other reason. As a man who constantly boasts about cheap wine deals, you should realise price wins, almost every time. I see no need to blame the capitalist system, it is what it is. As yet no-one has found a fully functional substitute. "As for peat, peat is not a renewable resource." By that facile statement are you trying to imply that coal is a renewable resource? For a well educated scientist you have a lot to learn laddie.
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