Another Tory Woman 'Aving A Go.

[Canary42]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/theresa-may-attacks-boris-johnson-093706479.html

[naomi24]

18.56. Perhaps you should have said it then, atheist … but you didn’t.

[woofgang]

a has been attacks a has been.....must be a slow news day

[perseverer]

Naomi, whatever you or I think of Theresa May her "attack" was part of a feature in the Sunday Times Magazine which would have been printed well before Nadine Dorries finally made up her mind.
As far as the latter was concerned, perhaps so little time was spent either in parliament or in her constituency in the last few months because she was too busy composing her vituperative resignation letter.

[naomi24]

Hmmm ... no rumblings within the ranks then, perseverer. Just a coincidence. Okay.

[THECORBYLOON]

NAOMI, "Labour closed more mines than the Conservatives…but no one mentions that."

Not accoring to this link, https://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/PM-Closures.html

"overall from a total of 1,250 pits in 1947 to the present day, 522 mines were closed throughout the UK by Labour and 728 by the Conservatives, including several hundred small licensed mines."

Large mines closed
"Labour 371
Tories 584
Tories/LD 2"

[naomi24]

//including several hundred small licensed mines//

That's misleading, Corby. Those were not nationalised mines.

[THECORBYLOON]

The figures for the large mines show more were closed under the Tories than Labour.

[naomi24]

No it doesn't. The figures includes //several hundred small licensed mines.//

By my reckoning 584 minus 'several hundred' takes the figure below Labour's 371. We've had this conversation here many times before.

[THECORBYLOON]

NAOMI, the, "several hundred" relates to small licensed mines so why are you deducting them from the Tories' closure of 584 large mines?

[naomi24]

Should have been 728. I can't see where you're getting 'large mines' from. This is what I'm reading in your link. //522 mines were closed throughout the UK by Labour and 728 by the Conservatives, including several hundred small licensed mines.//

[THECORBYLOON]

I have highlighted the figures here,

https://ibb.co/HhtpLmp

[naomi24]

Your blurb is contradicting itself.

[THECORBYLOON]

It's not, "my blurb" but what is the contradiction?

[naomi24]

It's your blurb insofar as it's what you've produced it to support your argument. The first figure is 728 which includes 'several hundred' non-nationalised mines. That becomes 584 'large' mines, which would make either the 728 or the 'several' hundred inaccurate. The not so large mines closed by any government aren't mentioned and so appear to be lost somewhere in translation and therefore I suspect your figures are skewed.

You and I will never agree on this Corby. There's no point going round the houses.

[THECORBYLOON]

What are your figures then?

[perseverer]

I have no idea who is right and who is wrong in this friendly discussion, (or if both are correct in their own ways) but looking at this quote from Corby,

"overall from a total of 1,250 pits in 1947 to the present day, 522 mines were closed throughout the UK by Labour and 728 by the Conservatives, including several hundred small licensed mines."

it is not clear whether the several hundred small mines applies to the Conservatives or to both parties, but it does seem unlikely one party would have a monopoly.

The large mines closed figures
Labour 381
Tories 584
Tories/LD 2

Give a total of 957, so there are presumably 293 pits still to account for to produce the 1250 total.

Amen. (It is often the last word, but probably not in this case.)