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The steel crisis is exposing Cameron’s total disdain for working people in Britain
If Tata Steel sells off its UK plants, 40,000 people will lose their jobs and whole communities will go to the wall. Instead of stepping up to take control of the crisis, David Cameron’s government has dithered – not because it was unprepared, but simply because it doesn’t care.
When 15,000 steel workers found out they were probably about to lose their jobs, David Cameron was in Lanzarote enjoying some “time to think”, George Osborne was somewhere between eating ice creams in Cheshire and heading to Paris, and Business Secretary Sajid Javid was on a plane to Australia for a work/holiday trip with his daughter while staff in his department were preparing for a drama school workshop.
By the time Cameron had assembled a few random ministers for an emergency meeting on Thursday morning (no sign of Osborne or Javid yet), which apparently achieved no concrete results, much of the country had long been screaming for action to save the steel industry and the communities that rely on it.
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Source: http://www.philosophers-stone.co.uk/?p=10098
