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    Jonathan Reynolds mocks Nigel Farage’s coal mines plan as an ‘absolute parody’
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    Jonathan Reynolds mocks Nigel Farage’s coal mines plan as an ‘absolute parody’

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    1. socratic-meth on

      > Jonathan Reynolds has mocked Nigel Farage for wanting to reopen the coal mines in Wales, dubbing him an “absolute parody”.

      > The business secretary, whose grandfather was a coal miner, admitted that Reform UK are Labour’s biggest opponents – but said Mr Farage fails to understand “the pride in where we’re from and what we represent, but also the aspiration for the future”.

      Let them eat coal

    2. supergodmasterforce on

      Forgive me naivety/ignorance on this subject, but one would assume that reopening coal mines would involve a considerable amount of money being spent on infrastructure, training, recruitment etc.? People just don’t turn up on day one with a pick axe and start mining.

    6. miserable_jesowka on

      Yet they will still vote for Farage

      Ex Public school boy wants working class people back in the mines (which by the way will not be profitable)

      Hail the working class champions Farage and Tice

      Do they have a single original thought or are they happy just parroting Trumpism?

    7. Frogs4 on

      I lived 200 metres from a coal mine in my youth. It’s been a housing estate for over a decade now. There’s no hole there anymore (ooh, err, missus), none of the machinery and no-one left who want to do such an awful job. All the members of my family who worked in the mine are long dead.

    8. limeflavoured on

      Farage yearns for the mines!

      There was, maybe, a bit of a case for that one mine in Northumberland for the purpose of coal to use in steel production, but the idea that coal mining has any major place in the UK economy in 2025 is mad.

    9. hyperlobster on

      I have done something Farage has almost certainly not: been down a working coal mine.

      It was in the early 80s when my grandfather, on the cusp of retirement, pulled in a favour to get me, most favoured grandson, a tour of the pit where he worked in the north Derbyshire coalfield.

      I still have vivid memories of the cage, the descent best described as *brisk*, the dark, the air thick with the smell of coal and traces of gas, the heat, the fact as a visitor on your first time you hadn’t got your “pit sense” (i.e. the ability to not trip over stuff on the floor whilst simultaneously not hitting your head on the low ceiling), the noise of the machines and the conveyors, and even as a young lad on my first time, being aware of the ever-present risk of trouble (i.e. death). What if the ceiling comes in? What if there’s firedamp? What if, what if, what if.

      Yeah, the only reason people did that was that there was nowt else, and it paid relatively well.

      My grandfather never spoke fondly of the pit.

    10. pajamakitten on

      How many Reform voters would willingly work down the mines? I bet a few would say they would, only to quit shortly after they realise it is hard work that destroys your health.