Brilliantly put. I remember the miners strike is Selby through the eyes of a thirteen year old living there at the time. Perhaps it was an early inoculation against media peddling simplistic narratives.
I could see a mythos of salt-of-the-earth miners Vs evil Tories reflected an important truth but also missed out some important truths too.
Class war is etched into the British Political outlook in a way that I think it is not in Scandinavia , where I have lived.
If there same issues arose in Sweden , new towns would have been built near Southampton with subsidised housing for relocating miners. There would also have been a new technical training university to retain mining technicians for electronics and computing.
Class warfare would be regarded as a frivolity that a country positioned close the the Soviet Union could not afford.
It's not that some of that didn't happen in there UK. Many miners did retrain in state - funded courses . But in Sweden it would have been done well - so well that nobody would notice. They'd just get on with it. There wouldn't be any inter - class psychodrama stopping people from thinking straight and poisoning political relations for a generation.
Brilliantly put. I remember the miners strike is Selby through the eyes of a thirteen year old living there at the time. Perhaps it was an early inoculation against media peddling simplistic narratives.
I could see a mythos of salt-of-the-earth miners Vs evil Tories reflected an important truth but also missed out some important truths too.
Class war is etched into the British Political outlook in a way that I think it is not in Scandinavia , where I have lived.
If there same issues arose in Sweden , new towns would have been built near Southampton with subsidised housing for relocating miners. There would also have been a new technical training university to retain mining technicians for electronics and computing.
Class warfare would be regarded as a frivolity that a country positioned close the the Soviet Union could not afford.
It's not that some of that didn't happen in there UK. Many miners did retrain in state - funded courses . But in Sweden it would have been done well - so well that nobody would notice. They'd just get on with it. There wouldn't be any inter - class psychodrama stopping people from thinking straight and poisoning political relations for a generation.