Peter Reynolds

Port Talbot Steelworks

If it wasn’t for the miners and steelworkers of South Wales, the UK would now be a province of the Third Reich.  As it is, the disastrous  incompetence of  the last Labour government, topped off by out-of-touch toffs has brought us to the point where if we stay in the EU, we will be just a subsidiary of Frau Merkel’s Greater Germany.

Call them Keystone Cops, Bullingdon Club Blaggers or Carry on No 10, the loons that sit round the cabinet table in Downing Street have failed this country and should be sent packing back to their country seats. They have no idea what Britain really is and even less how to lead us into an uncertain future.

The ramifications of South Wales steel pervade our economy and our society.  It has made Britain great while Blair, Brown, Cameron and the self-serving political elite have diminished us in every way: financially, socially and morally.  We are a shadow of our former selves. We must wrest back control from these idiots.  They are an exact parallel with overpaid Premier League footballers: utterly selfish, egotistical to the ultimate, irresponsible of everything that does not benefit them directly and despised except of the power they hold. Footballers have their brains in their feet.  Our political leaders have their brains in their wallets, pension funds and the sinecures they will acquire when they leave office.

My grandfather was a South Wales steelworker.  It was career progress after he first went down the mines at age 14.  In 1938, my father was malnourished with rickets because he didn’t have enough food to eat.  It was only that year with the build-up to war that grandad had regular shifts and the family could be properly fed. Later my father won a scholarship to Oxford.  In the 80s and 90s he became one of the top commercial lawyers in the City and independently wealthy.  He was the archetypal boy from the valleys made good.  Such is the way that South Wales steel has built Britain and not just with girders, RSJs and driving piles for foundations.  It goes much deeper than that in ways that many of the Eton-educated wasters and ponces can never understand.

We must look after our own first.  It is ludicrous that we have thousand using foodbanks, we’re cutting benefits for disabled people and meanwhile we’re giving £12 billion a year away in foreign aid, £300 million to India which spends its own money on a space programme! We also pay £13 billion each year to the EU. We have to stop this madness.

Any independent nation of significance must have its own steel manufacturing capability. We are the fifth biggest economy in the world.  Save our steel industry by nationalising it.  It’s not socialism, it’s common sense.