FERRYBRIDGE POWER STATION CLOSURE
Would it be synical to suspect the timing of the announcement of the closure of Ferrbridge Power Station, was it delayed to help the Tory Candidate, or were the owners hoping for a Labour victory?
What I did hear this morning was an interview with their Conservative MP, he promised - yes this is true - that he would be sending a strong letter to the Energy Minister. I am sure the Energy Minister is quivering in his boots in anticipation.
What was talked about was the 600 people who would loose their jobs, only an afterthought mension of the ancillary jobs and contractors, no mention of the massive loss of income to the Local Authority as a consequence of the closure and the system set up by Eric Pickles.
The MP did the usual, blambing "previous" gouvernment decisions (15 years ago he said) and what I suspect will rapidly become the "Usual suspect" for all that goes wrong, "Europe".
Whatever the Polatics, today real families have had their future and standard of living put at risk and out thoughts must be with them. Lets hope that all that is possible is done to find them jobs, though their local MP's suggestion that they work on tidal barriers is probably a bit on the optamistic side at arround Selby.
