{"id":429595,"date":"2021-08-07T10:52:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T05:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429595"},"modified":"2021-08-07T12:52:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T07:22:23","slug":"uks-johnson-under-fire-over-crass-coal-closure-quip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uks-johnson-under-fire-over-crass-coal-closure-quip\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Johnson under fire over &#8216;crass&#8217; coal closure quip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Opposition leaders and former mining communities on Friday lashed out at Prime Minister Boris Johnson for joking that former leader Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s coal mine closures had given Britain a head start in fighting climate change. <\/p>\n<p>Thatcher, in power from 1979 to 1990, fought a bitter battle with coal miners in the 1980s, delivering the unionized industry&#8217;s death knell by closing over 100 mines, devastating communities in northern England, South Wales and Scotland. <\/p>\n<p>A year-long walkout against closure plans by miners in 1984-85 was one of the defining moments of her premiership, eroding union power and accelerating her free-market reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Opposition leaders and former mining communities on Friday lashed out at Prime Minister Boris Johnson for joking that former leader Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s coal mine closures had given Britain a head start in fighting climate change. Thatcher, in power from 1979 to 1990, fought a bitter battle with coal miners in the 1980s, delivering the unionized industry&#8217;s death knell by closing over 100 mines, devastating communities in northern England, South Wales and Scotland. A year-long walkout against closure plans by miners in 1984-85 was one of the defining moments of her premiership, eroding union power and accelerating her free-market reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}