I’m happy to support this, but as Heath says it all goes back to the Thatcherite policies of the 80s.
If the government had put together a long term plan of closure and retention instead of a wholesale slaughter of the mining industry (as has been the case in other countries) jobs would not have been lost in such huge numbers or whole communities destroyed.
If the last five years have shown us anything it is that UK governments seem incapable of putting together any kind of withdrawal plan.