Was Margaret Thatcher the one to blame for the coal mines shutting in the 80s?
Britain was at it’s most succesful during the Thatcher years, if you loved her or hated her. She upset a lot of people and she did close the coalmines. The problem is coal was out of fashion, times were changing and she recognised those changes and led them. It upset a lot of people. Although those coalminers suffered, losing their jobs was inevitable at some time or another, and Thatcher had the foresight to lead Britain another way. I think power went to her head in the end and she upset people even more with her poll tax idea, but she was one of the best leaders Britain has ever had. Under Thatcher, Britain was one of the strongest countries financially, in the world. Then labour came along and systematically destroyed the UK.
