G. Gordon Liddy is dead. Watergate would not be a scandal now. People would just assume that that was how political parties behaved. They probably did then, but they still felt obliged to pretend to be shocked. Today, no one would feel any such obligation. Make of that what you will.
The Watergate Complex was owned by the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme, so that its ultimate Trustees included Arthur Scargill and Mick McGahey. That is only one example of the wealth and power that have been lost by communities that still have a thousand years of their valuable natural resource beneath their feet.
We were not really having a culture war in Britain. People on either side of either argument do not believe that statues or street names are as important as abortion. But then it looked as if we were going to get a new coal mine.
Welcome to the coke war. On one side are those for whom coke is used in smelting. On the other side are those for whom coke is used for snorting.
Whether it is the coal to make their turbines and their cars, or whether it is the precious metals for their Green New Deal and their toys, or whether it is their cocaine, the Snorters will cheerfully import the produce of child and slave labour, extracted with no environmental standards whatever and then shipped over vast distances of carbon footprint. But they will never, ever, ever countenance the well-paid, unionised, environmentally safeguarded employment of their compatriots, the Smelters. Welcome to the coke war.
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