All the lobbying of Ed Miliband by Island Labour members including myself, Mark Chiverton, and Deborah Gardiner over the last few weeks drew some positive words from his deputy Joan Ruddock at a meeting with two Vestas workers and the RMT today in London.
Ms Ruddock told the guys that redundancy payments should be reinstated for the sacked workers who occupied/still occupy the plant, that redundancy payments for all 600 should be improved, and that the Government will not abandon the Island even if Vestas have. The proof of course will be in the pudding, though in my view this is the least the government could have told them and anything less from Vestas will show them as the ethically deficient company they clearly are.
I was tickled to notice today up at the plant that the typically opportunistic IW Liberal banner that was displayed on the fencing a week ago has been removed. A consequence I am told of the Simon Hughes visit earlier this week. Bring more of the Liberal leaders down to the Island I say, so that they can be exposed as the charlatans they are.
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