The build

Don't get me started!

Many years ago I worked for 10 years at British Steel  Consett works. It was the Thatcher era and we were told if you get production up the site will be saved. We grafted our bollocks off and got production up. We made it a profitable enterprise but Maggie and her cronies shut the place anyway in 1980 putting 7500 souls on the dole and turning Consett into a ghost town.

Heavy industry in the UK has nigh on been wiped out.

Rubbish isn't it  I was brought up in a Welsh mining village  - the pit strikes when I was a kid are still vivid memories. Food banks everywhere. Everyone out of work, if the miners didn't have any money no one else did either as they weren't having any work done etc....Foraging food was a big thing, I remember picking mushrooms or blackberries to make pies for the neighbours. It was pretty tough.