Rebecca Long-Bailey did well at Prime Minister's Questions. But she was wrong, because the Labour Party nationally is wrong, about coal. The new mine at Whitehaven was unanimously approved by Labour, Conservative, and Liberal Democrat members of Cumbria County Council. Well, of course it was.
As soon as Margaret Thatcher died, then we knew that the miners would be back. As soon as Jeremy Corbyn became the Leader of the Opposition, then we knew that the miners would be back within 10 years. As soon as Donald Trump became the President of the United States, then we knew that, by crossparty consensus, the miners would be back within five years. And now, here we are.
"Do you regret the defeat of the miners in 1985?" is the Yes-No question that infallibly separates the real Left from the fake Left, and the real patriots and the real supporters of traditional family life from the fake patriots and the fake supporters of traditional family life. The correct answer is, "Yes." Britain was the world leader in clean coal technology until the Miners' Strike, and it ought to be so again. We need never fight another war over Arab oil or Russian gas. We ought never to have fought such wars in the first place.
"Do you regret the defeat of the miners in 1985?" is the Yes-No question that infallibly separates the real Left from the fake Left, and the real patriots and the real supporters of traditional family life from the fake patriots and the fake supporters of traditional family life. The correct answer is, "Yes." Britain was the world leader in clean coal technology until the Miners' Strike, and it ought to be so again. We need never fight another war over Arab oil or Russian gas. We ought never to have fought such wars in the first place.
A new pit will mean a new branch of the NUM. 35 years after the Strike. "Who won?" is suddenly no longer the rhetorical question that those who posed it had always assumed it to have been. We may look forward to seeing the Whitehaven banner at the Durham Miners' Gala. And indeed, at the 2026 Burnhope Miners' Gala, to be addressed, like that in 1986, by Jeremy Corbyn.
If you want to guarantee that there is a Burnhope Miners' Gala in 2026, and if you want the balance of power in the coming hung Parliament to be held by someone who recognised that Britain needed to return to being the world leader in clean coal technology that it was until the Strike, then it has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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