Roy Bowdler:
I posted the material below in another thread last year.  It is history now, but the National Coal Board offered the majority of Engineering Apprenticeships and Graduate Engineer training schemes in some parts of the country.  Mining was also one of the cornerstones or our national prosperity through history. 


I hope that we have a better quality of argument, than throwing tabloid style abuse at political leaders.  For the record, I agree with the remarks recently attributed to HM Queen.   

 

I grew up in a heavily industrialised part of the country, Roy - I did my apprenticeship with a German company heavily involved in both steel and coal mining. I studied alongside a lot of NCB and BSC apprentices, and the training was excellent - including the student apprenticeships that put me on the course to higher education.


Mining also killed an awful lot of people, and the desire to retain it caused an awful lot of unpleasantness in the communities of my youth - I was a young apprentice during the miners strike so saw much of it first hand.


Just because JC's family happened to be in engineering and science doesn't make him a saint - and history records just what a creature the man really is.


Regards


OMS

Roy Bowdler:
I posted the material below in another thread last year.  It is history now, but the National Coal Board offered the majority of Engineering Apprenticeships and Graduate Engineer training schemes in some parts of the country.  Mining was also one of the cornerstones or our national prosperity through history. 


I hope that we have a better quality of argument, than throwing tabloid style abuse at political leaders.  For the record, I agree with the remarks recently attributed to HM Queen.   

 

I grew up in a heavily industrialised part of the country, Roy - I did my apprenticeship with a German company heavily involved in both steel and coal mining. I studied alongside a lot of NCB and BSC apprentices, and the training was excellent - including the student apprenticeships that put me on the course to higher education.


Mining also killed an awful lot of people, and the desire to retain it caused an awful lot of unpleasantness in the communities of my youth - I was a young apprentice during the miners strike so saw much of it first hand.


Just because JC's family happened to be in engineering and science doesn't make him a saint - and history records just what a creature the man really is.


Regards


OMS