The Financial Crisis 2008 and the Miners’ Crisis 1980s
We are told by the media that any regulation of the financial sector will result in that sector ‘going elsewhere’, taking their business to other countries and that somehow this would be a bad thing for the UK. But when the mines were closed down in the UK in the 1980s – amidst scenes of violent unrest and communities being destroyed, a way of life of 100 years being lost – the idea that mining should leave the country and go somewhere else was a good thing. Why? Because mini