Ok for the last time, everything else is irrelevant, immaterial not germane to the argument.
FACT the EU allowed a non member state to vastly subsidise its coal and then, allowed member states to purchase that coal, thus ending Britains coal industry.
That's FACT, it's immutable, regardless of how much smoke filled, coffee house cr4p you want to wrap it up in.
As to why, well some might argue that the EU are just self serving, self promoting and duplicitous.
The EU were placed in an impossible position in relation to UK coal.
I agree that Coal was in a long-term managed decline, which suddenly changed in the early 1980s.
But what exactly was the EU supposed to do? It's true that Poland (then a non-member) was manipulating the market via a state subsidy. It is equally true that the EEC (as it then was) was entitled to provide protection to its member country via imposing appropriate tariffs on Polish coal.
But the then-UK Govt made it very public that they wanted no such assistance from the EEC. Margaret Thatcher was using this as an opportunity to bash the Unions, in particular Arthur Scargill. She had no interest whatsoever in Miners or their families.
So what exactly was the EEC supposed to do? Overrule a duly elected Member's Govt, and impose sanctions to provide benefits that were not wanted by the UK Govt? Costing all of the EEC extra money for coal in order to support a Member State regardless of whether they wanted that help?
The early demise of British Coal was caused by Thatcher. Not the EEC.
And, in some respects (from a political perspective) she was right. At the 2019 election, 12 MPs elected for Staffordshire. 12 Conservatives.
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