The usual weak, flaccid and tbh silly argument Abbey. Your point reminds me of the infamous saying “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. (Joeseff Goebbels) As has been said on here more pits closed under Labour so whats your comment to that?
Plus how about the cotton industry? Far more pertinent to us around these parts yet that was sacrificed meekly without all this fake rending of cloth and gnashing of teeth across the nation. The farming industry employs 80% fewer workers now than 50 or 100 years ago but who cares about the effect of that demise on outlying communities? Fishing? Shipbuilding? Steel prodn? Car making? I could go on and on about changes in employment which have affected communities yet I've never heard you even mention them.
Where is your stance re: Blackburn? As I mentioned above mill after mill closed as textiles went abroad and the only legacy is a growing islamic community brought in after the industry had passed the point of no return. Not only that but big employers ROF shut in 2001. Mullards in 2009. Newmans closed putting 500 unemployed. Star paper 2009. All under New labour! Presumably because they became uncompetitive in the modern world. There are countless cases of job losses in these parts and no doubt as many under Labour as under the Tories but who across the nation was willing to take up our cudgel for time immemorial?
I will tell it to the pit villages...... just so long as you tell that to the people around here.
Plus how about the cotton industry? Far more pertinent to us around these parts yet that was sacrificed meekly without all this fake rending of cloth and gnashing of teeth across the nation. The farming industry employs 80% fewer workers now than 50 or 100 years ago but who cares about the effect of that demise on outlying communities? Fishing? Shipbuilding? Steel prodn? Car making? I could go on and on about changes in employment which have affected communities yet I've never heard you even mention them.
Where is your stance re: Blackburn? As I mentioned above mill after mill closed as textiles went abroad and the only legacy is a growing islamic community brought in after the industry had passed the point of no return. Not only that but big employers ROF shut in 2001. Mullards in 2009. Newmans closed putting 500 unemployed. Star paper 2009. All under New labour! Presumably because they became uncompetitive in the modern world. There are countless cases of job losses in these parts and no doubt as many under Labour as under the Tories but who across the nation was willing to take up our cudgel for time immemorial?
I will tell it to the pit villages...... just so long as you tell that to the people around here.
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