Abstract
In June 1984 a striking Durham miner interviewed on television asked a simple question: ‘Why pay me £60 a week to do nothing if I’m unemployed, when, with this or less to help cut the cost, I could be usefully mining coal?’. At much the same time another simple question was being asked: ‘If food surpluses are piling up unused here and elsewhere people are starving, why is not the food sent where the need is?’. To store EEC surplus grain for four years costs £200 a tonne; to transport it to where the need is costs £25 a tonne (Observer, 28 October 1984). Why are not resources moved to needs, saving people and money?
With their money they bought ignorance and killed the dreamer
Alice Walker
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© 1986 Stephen Bodington, Mike George and John Michaelson
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Bodington, S., George, M., Michaelson, J. (1986). Britain in the World Economy. In: Developing the Socially Useful Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18155-1_2
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