A Tangled Web

JOBS FOR THE BOYS



The self-importance of our political class and their delusions of grandeur is vividly demonstrated in the news that TBF Thompson Engineering factory in Garvagh, County Londonderry, is to close with the loss of 36 jobs. The "solution" lies in...restoring the Assembly!



SDLP John Dallat and UUP Norman Hillis have figured out that only "our" late lunlamented Assembly can restore the fortunes of trailer manufacturing. Quite how, well, we're not sure....perhaps MLA's are so used to hitching their comments to any potentially vote-raising issue that they figure they can now use a trailer?



Of course the reality is that the Assembly would be utterly impotent in matters of economic decision. Instead of doing anything constructive it would merely hot-air the issue, suggest a "task-force" and generally provide fatcat politicos with the chance to waffle. Not much use to TBF or the workers affected!