Thread by @clim8resistance

Not entirely true. Miners strikes had had plagued Con & Lab governments for a long time. MT asked for a mandate to confront the issue and got it. The strikes, conversely, were not democratic. Meanwhile, global warming had been touted as the basis for nuclear by Sweden in the '70s

https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1423523300270133249

Mines were uneconomic. Closures had happened under both party's governments -- more under Labour. And the unions and left were quite happy to use industrial disputes to bring down the MT government, despite the wishes of the voters, and without balloting their own members.

They failed. And the consequence of their own undemocratic position was that they were left unable to negotiate in their members' (and broader communities') interests, and the laws regulating union activity were changed.

Meanwhile, as @RupertDarwall points out, Sweden's social democrats were seeking to use green scares to establish their nuclear energy programme, and the green issue on the global political agenda.

amazon.co.uk/Green-Tyranny-…

Also meanwhile, Norwegian PM, Brundtland had been appointed by the UN to define 'sustainability'.

We think of green globalism as a 90s/2000s thing. But it was in reality a '70s & '80s thing. That was when the work was done.

sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/docume…

This chart debunks the claim that Thatcher was a significant factor in the decline of coal, and so on.

Thatcher is a story that leftoids tell their children so that they grow up to become good Gretas or something. But the constant mythmaking (and demonology) goes both ways, and is always being revised to suit the present. Bojo isn't the first...

climate-resistance.org/2013/04/did-ri…

Key points here...

Another useful chart.

Zoom in on coal production since peak. Red line depicts duration of Thatcher administration. In fact coal production didn't fall as much in that era as it had in earlier times, or since.