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To: dennisw

What was the reference to maggie flooding the mines?


52 posted on 03/08/2009 1:21:11 PM PDT by stockpirate (A people unwilling to use violent force to defend liberty deserves the tyrant that rules them SP)
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To: stockpirate
What was the reference to maggie flooding the mines?

There was a very bitter coal miners strike circa 1983. The mines were state owned I believe
I guess Margaret Thatcher flooded some mines but I don't know if she intentionally ruined billions in mining machines

54 posted on 03/08/2009 1:47:30 PM PDT by dennisw (Archimedes--- Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum to place it, and I shall move the Earth)
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