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That attitude is born out of a failure to recognise the inherent exploitation in the work place in my opinion (but I understand even Donut isn't going to agree with that!). The government exploited those workers for a long period of time then, due to its own failure to modernise, discarded them completely. The government at the time held two contradictory policies effectively - they stated that there wasn't any work and that the pits had to close, and they also stated that there was work everywhere and that they therefore didn't have to pay unemployment benefits as the recipients were just scroungers. How is it possible to maintain at one and the same time that the econimic situation was good and also bad? Well... ask Norman Tebbit as he managed to do so for quite some time.
[ 03-09-2004, 10:23 AM: Message edited by: Barry the Sprout ]
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