Britain needs coal. After all, we have plenty of it. Yet we import it from Russia, South Africa, and the child and slave labour of Latin America, just as global demand is going up.
As Martin Meenagh says:
Reopen the mines.
Ask those men to back into the dark and bring back coal for their country and their hearths and their families and their socially accountable power stations.
Allow for tax-breaks for cooperatives to do it, if the men are still around who remember how.
Reestablish communities in areas devastated and enslaved to agency work after the mines and steelworks shut.
And let Margaret Thatcher live long enough to see it happen.
We also need nuclear power, in order to secure high-wage, high-skilled, high-status jobs for the working class, and independence from Arab oil and Russian gas.
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I see that Monbiot/Moonbat now says that nuclear is all right because at least it's not coal.
ReplyDeleteMonbiot/Moonbat writes:
ReplyDelete"The workers mustn't have proper jobs, you know - they'd end up producing trade unions, co-operatives, credit unions, mutual guarantee societies, mutual building societies, friendly societies, miners' lodge libraries, debating societies, brass and silver bands, pitmen poets, pitmen painters, and before we knew it political parties.
We mustn't be independent of Arab oil, you know - what would we live on?
The lower orders must not be permitted to travel, you know - it would give them ideas above their station.
And the darkies must not be permitted to develop economically, you know - where would it all end?
But if nuclear isn't coal, then I suppose it will just have to do, for that strictly limited purpose, of not being coal."