I hope you're being vaguely tongue in cheek there and not just being an immense cock
because far more than the mining jobs were lost - the loss of mining jobs made entire local economies collapse, plunging many many people into hardship
not to mention the fact that they were given bugger all help finding new jobs, and the loss of their jobs was largely the result of a thatcherite vendetta against the miners.
thousands and thousands of people were adversely affected by those decisions and the Tories have never once shown any remorse for it whatsoever.
( Mushroom, Sat 10 Jun 2006, 7:01, archived)

Vaguely tongue in cock
Ask a miner if he wants his son to be a miner. Speak from a real position, and not a rose-tinted idealist stance. Aye, Thatcher deserves death (repeatedly), but when it's cheaper to bring coal to the UK from Australia than to dig it out our own soil, I couldn't give a XXXX for the pits. Now if they had opened up biomass farms and retrained the miners to grow this, I'd have been a lot happier also.
(Prince of Prance, Mon 12 Jun 2006, 0:25, archived)