Chip you know everything about anything dont you!

You talk shit mate and have no idea on the subject. you obviously have no grasp of the kind of money it has cost to close the mines...do you think it was just the cost of filling the shafts?
Its been proven in the last few years that uk coal is a viable source if structured correctly.
As for being better for the country with them being closed, better for ignorant areas like yours maybe where it didnt happen on your doorstep so its ok, but certainley not better for areas like mine where we are still suffering 25 years on.
Typical ignorant Tory where figures are far more than peoples lives, livelihoods and keeping communties together. . Even Tebbit admited the closures went too far as thatcher got it in her head to destroy the miners and hence destroyed communities!