Originally Posted by
Lee Reynolds
It would have cost to get them re structured etc, but then it would not have needed subsidising. I reckon the cost of restructure would be a drop in the ocean compared to what it cost to close them. Its not just the mines think of the knock on effect it had mate.
As for people being paid huge sums, not the workers!
The unions wouldnt have allowed any restructuring, you are living in a dream world!
Back then if they so much as dared to change the fillings in the staff sandwiches it was "EVERYBODY OUT!" for a month
