The last time that anyone bought British Steel, then it was for one pound. Renationalise it at twice its most recent market value.
From the constituency that contains Consett, look at what has become of British Steel. Isn't privatisation grand? Isn't deregulation? Isn't globalisation? Isn't the EU?
Services are all well and good. But you can't service nothing. The stuff itself has to come from somewhere.
Refusing to make our own goods, and to protect those industries, is how we have ended up in the middle of a trade war between China and the United States, which do still make things, and which do still protect their manufacturing base.
It is also what has destroyed our steel industry, without which a modern country simply cannot function, and in which we once led the world.
Refusing to make our own goods, and to protect those industries, is how we have ended up in the middle of a trade war between China and the United States, which do still make things, and which do still protect their manufacturing base.
It is also what has destroyed our steel industry, without which a modern country simply cannot function, and in which we once led the world.
This is all lost on the Thatcherite-Blairite rump that makes up most of the House of Commons. Another hung Parliament is coming, however, 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.
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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