SHE HAS DIED

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died "peacefully" at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke while staying at the Ritz hotel in central London.

I just wonder where the long suffering miners went to die, or where they went after their industry was killed off by Britain’s first female PM?

She was born in 1925, so has lived  many more years than the average miner?

It is written that she was regarded as a peace time leader of the 20^th century? Really? Well the war with the Argentinians? The huge battles on the UK streets between coalminers and police? So much more? Peaceful for whom?

They say she transformed the UK with a conservative free market?

Free for whom? So one huge organisation/company could battle “peacefully” among each other and turn into fifty small companies that can not get organised among themselves?

Well whatever your opinion is on the Iron so called lady, she has two children, grown up of course, and I send them wishes, but for her? I lived with my father, a coalminer. Next door to a policeman. In a mining village during her damage. During her harsh words and murders. She killed off an industry, lives and history as well as futures.

My Dad worked in the mines since he was fourteen. He had a really bad life, horrific conditions. Crawling along the floor of the pit, only four foot between him and the roof above him, pushing away at heavy machinery. The days when a canary, and not Irish, was taken down the mine to see if there was gas? If there was, the bird would die, the days when donkeys were kept down the pits, they went blind as they got used to not seeing. It was a hell of a life, but it was a life, not a death. Men were proud they could earn.