[tonyedgecombe]

At the start of the last century the UK had a million people working in the coal mining industry. Now it is effectively zero.

That reduction happened over a long period but it wasn't without its problems. Even now there are old coal mining villages that have never really recovered economically.

[AlecSchueler]

Maybe the village hasn't recovered but what about the descendants of the miners who now work service jobs in London?

[tonyedgecombe]

It's the descendants that don't leave that cause all the problems.

[account42]

> Even now there are old coal mining villages that have never really recovered economically.

Are villages the correct unit to look at there though? Do individuals from these villages now have worse opportunities than they had before?

[marysol5]

Very much so, nothing was done to even give them opportunities to get work anywhere else either. And then on top of that the Tories destroyed everything else.