tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post6408330602184802364..comments2024-03-02T10:38:04.108+00:00Comments on Borthlas: Changing attitudesJohn Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-89803492304317114722015-04-08T20:07:27.345+01:002015-04-08T20:07:27.345+01:00The coal industry was bled to death by the decisio...The coal industry was bled to death by the decision to axe steam overnight and substitute diesel powered units coupled with the Beeching axe which effectively destroyed the use of the railways to carry freight It is ironic that the only line to be allowed to carry general freight per se is the Mid Wales line and it carries small packages of fish <br />The Conservatives under Thatcher closed the Mines as a political act the tragedy was that no thought was given to the viability of many all had to go <br />We are in a period of relatively cheap oil but how long this will last is very uncertain We only know that the industry will decline as global use is greater than planetary generationG Horton-Jonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-16730048990456765232015-04-08T00:42:02.735+01:002015-04-08T00:42:02.735+01:00Has it really been 40 years?
Do you remember the P...Has it really been 40 years?<br />Do you remember the Plaid conference of '71 when Robyn Lewis welcomed everyone in Welsh then in all the other languages of the Common Market. He predicted that such an introduction would soon be the norm, "But without the Welsh"<br />In '75 I was a member of Swansea Trades Council and active in the "Get Britain out" campaign. We organized a well attended public meeting that was addressed by a young Marxist firebrand, Dafydd Elis Thomas. He produced a document, prepared by Plaid, that described the fate of the coal and steel industries in Wales if we stayed in the EEC. It was remarkably accurate as it turns out. <br /><br />Things and people change over time, though for me it seems like only yesterday.<br />Peter Freemannoreply@blogger.com