Mr A Tis...you beat me to it!
The coal mining industry was destroyed for the political gratification of the government of the day.
"In 1984, the National Coal Board announced that an agreement reached after the 1974 miners' strike had become obsolete, and that in order to rationalise government subsidisation of industry they intended to close 20 coal mines. " (Source Wikipedia)
Sound familiar? Ten years was all it took to renege on that deal. So don't tell me that voting yes is going to protect my pension for 15 years (never mind that that doesn't even take me to retirement age).