The mine at Bradley may be closing, but Britain still consumes eight million tonnes of coal every year, which it imports despite standing on a thousand years' worth of the stuff.
Britain also goes to war over oil, and it permits in the coalfields the permanent existence of an impoverished country within the country, with a population larger than that of Scotland, and rather a lot of which now returns Conservative MPs with small majorities.
Until the Strike, Britain was the world leader in clean coal technology. It needs to be so again. Along with civil nuclear power, this must be the backbone an all-of-the-above energy policy. The trains powered by the electricity thus generated must be the backbone of an all-of-the-above transport policy.
And the force delivering all of this must be the State, free of the EU State Aid rules by which, astonishingly and yet not, Keir Starmer's Labour Party wishes to keep Britain constrained forever.
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