Electric cars are marvellous. Like trains, they can be run, not on imported oil, but on domestically generated electricity.
There needs to be an all-of-the-above energy policy based around civil nuclear power and this country's vast reserves of coal. Proponents of wind turbines, how do you think that steel is manufactured?
The unanimous decision of Cumbria County Council to permit a new deep mine at Whitehaven indicates that, 40 years today since Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, the taboo against coal on the British Right, which is completely out of line with right-wing thinking everywhere else, is dying out. So, too, should the taboo on the British Left against nuclear power, although in fact the last Labour Government was much more supportive of nuclear power than the Conservatives have been.
Yes, nuclear power was used to break the NUM, and that began long before the Miners' Strike, at Hartlepool under Harold Wilson. But like coal, it provides highly paid, highly skilled, high status, unionised jobs while securing independence from Arab oil, from Russian gas, and from coal that has been mined using child and slave labour. By contrast, both open-casting and fracking extract hardly anything while employing hardly anyone.
George Galloway tweeted this morning: "As I told a caller last night if Nissan threatens to leave a #Brexit Britain we must build our own cars on their plant which we subsidised. The country which built Rolls Royce Jaguar Lotus Range Rover et al can build the Nissan Micra! Have some FAITH in ourselves, our workers."
In that spirit, I have now been working for years with all of the non-Labour members of Durham County Council and with the trade unions, to bring Volkswagen's production for the British market to County Durham after, or even before, Brexit. I am more than open to further suggestions along similar lines. Among many other things, this project will guarantee the financial future of the Durham Miners' Gala and of the Durham Miners' Hall.
The absence of the County Council Labour Group is that Group's own sorry fault. But while I unreservedly condemn the decision of that Group to award to the Kier Group, with its history of blacklisting, the contract to build the new headquarters of Durham County Council, the door is open to the many on the Labour Group who despise the present Leadership. If they want to become part of the Volskwagen and other such projects, then they know where I am.
Beyond that, another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
George Galloway tweeted this morning: "As I told a caller last night if Nissan threatens to leave a #Brexit Britain we must build our own cars on their plant which we subsidised. The country which built Rolls Royce Jaguar Lotus Range Rover et al can build the Nissan Micra! Have some FAITH in ourselves, our workers."
In that spirit, I have now been working for years with all of the non-Labour members of Durham County Council and with the trade unions, to bring Volkswagen's production for the British market to County Durham after, or even before, Brexit. I am more than open to further suggestions along similar lines. Among many other things, this project will guarantee the financial future of the Durham Miners' Gala and of the Durham Miners' Hall.
The absence of the County Council Labour Group is that Group's own sorry fault. But while I unreservedly condemn the decision of that Group to award to the Kier Group, with its history of blacklisting, the contract to build the new headquarters of Durham County Council, the door is open to the many on the Labour Group who despise the present Leadership. If they want to become part of the Volskwagen and other such projects, then they know where I am.
Beyond that, another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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