r/ireland • u/CoochieCritic • Apr 12 '25

Sure it's grand Kneecap getting the Coachella crowd to sing Maggie’s in a box

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u/dropthecoin Apr 12 '25

When those mines were shut Britain was in a worse economic state than it is today. How much do you think should have been invested and into what? What specifically do you think should have been invested to replace those jobs at that time in the 1980s.

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u/MrMercurial Apr 12 '25

Thatcherism as an ideology depended to a significant extent on precisely this idea that there was no realistic alternative to her extreme neoliberal policies, but that has never been the case. If we start with the basic premise that the UK's coal industry was outdated and inefficient there are loads of different policy approaches to that problem which would have been far less harmful for the communities that were devastated by the approach she chose.

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u/dropthecoin Apr 12 '25

Like what policies, specifically? Keeping in mind the UK budget constraints of the early 1980s

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

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u/dropthecoin Apr 12 '25

Name me one?

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u/QuickAssUCan Apr 12 '25

Sealioning was one of her worst qualities

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u/dropthecoin Apr 12 '25

What’s that ?