The poor became a lot better off under Margaret Thatcher.
The coal mines were unprofitable and like all nationalised industries at the time were a burden on the taxpayer (I remember when there was a three month waiting list to have a phone line installed). It was Arthur Scargill who didn't give a damn about the miners, the strike was an attempt to bring down the democratically elected government. Would you approve of that?
I know the Church doesn't live up to your expectations of it so you refer to the institutional Church to distinguish it from the church of John Hobson where you are your own pope and magisterium, you have said so on numerous occasions.