Tuesday, 16 March 2010
800 Jobs Lost as Labour Destroys Yet another UK Industry
The Labour regime’s plan to complete the Conservative Party’s plan to utterly wreck Britain’s manufacturing base took another step forward this week with the announcement that the army’s new light tanks would not be built in this country.
Army bosses had agreed that the 30-year-old Scimitar tank currently in service needed to be replaced and had recommended to the Government that the CV90 armoured reconnaissance vehicle be built by BAe Systems in Newcastle and Telford.
The Government, however, dismissed the army’s preferences and gave the £1 billion contract to General Dynamics for the Ascot armoured vehicle, which is made in Spain and Austria.
Officials at BAe told the media that more than 800 jobs would now be lost in Britain and that there would be a “critical drop in engineering skills” in Britain.
In addition, a BAe spokesman was quoted as saying that the contract would have created “hundreds more jobs at its factories in Newcastle and Telford, in Shropshire.
“It will be difficult to retain the skills in armoured vehicle systems in the UK that are necessary to support the front line,” the BAe company spokesman said, adding, “obviously we are going to have to look again at our footprint in the armoured vehicle sector in the UK.”
In plain English, that means that BAe Systems will now have to close down its armoured vehicle manufacturing facilities in Britain.
The Government’s decision goes against the army’s choice and reveals the lie behind Labour’s promise of “British jobs for British workers.”
More importantly, the closure of the BAe Systems plants will herald the final destruction of the nearly 100-year-old British tank manufacturing industry.
* The plan to gut the manufacturing heart of Britain was first launched by the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher. Since then, the Labour government has actively pursued this policy as well.
Current estimates claim that there are some eight million “economically inactive” adults in Britain.
Read more about the Scimitar by clicking here.
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