19 January 2024 , 23:19
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Huge job losses at a steel company receiving a £500million public subsidy is a bad return for taxpayers.
Tory ministers can’t run Tata, an Indian conglomerate, but they must challenge more than 3,000 redundancies at the Port Talbot works in South Wales.
The mass cull would devastate workers, families and communities. Shutting the last blast furnaces would also mean we have to import steel, adding to an already massive balance-of-trade manufacturing deficit.
Installing electric arc furnaces makes sense and nobody wants to halt technological and environmental progress. But dumping thousands of workers in a vital industry is a matter of national importance that deserves more than a rubber stamp from Government.
To get that £500million, Tata must prove it is operating in the interests of Wales and Britain, rather than just its investors.
Teachers, civil servants and train drivers walk out in biggest strike in decade
Tittering twit
Forget the laughing… what Rishi Sunak’s uncomfortable conversation about the NHS proves is that this isolated Prime Minister has not got a clue.
It was a Gillian Duffy moment, echoing the time Gordon Brown failed to grasp a Rochdale woman’s concerns about migration.
Sunak’s lack of empathy and arrogance will deservedly be punished at the polls – because the bald truth is that Tory austerity plunged the NHS into crisis long before Covid.
Waiting lists were rising steeply ahead of the pandemic, and voters know the Conservatives are to blame, not striking junior doctors.
Sunak’s laughter was the sound of a Tory PM stumbling towards electoral humiliation.
A cheeky trick
Shrinkflation, charging the same price for less of your product, is a sneaky trick that leaves a nasty taste in the mouth of any customer it’s played on.
And with mouthwash among the products we’re getting less of these days, we can barely afford to wash it away.