Thatcher’s ghost haunts the Green movement Readers' Letters

over 4 years in TheScotsman

The end of BiFab feels like the return of Thatcher. A flashback to a darker time when the very breath of Scotland’s beating industrial body was choked out of us. Factory closure followed factory closure and the sheer weight of industrial collapse crushed all opposition. Back then it was the free market, now it’s the Green movement. Pious principle may have replaced price as the catalyst for change but the impact on working-class communities is the same.

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