But General Dynamics is, of course, an armaments company; they refer to some of their products lovingly as ‘combat systems’; their business, ultimately is in the field of warfare and killing.
Calls to find
ways of helping the company and retaining the jobs seem to me to be the wrong
response to this particular situation. I
will never shed any tears over any job losses in the armaments industry. And I’ve never been one for the idea that we
should take any jobs at any price; expending time and resources on the production
of weaponry is not something that I could or would support.
The question we
should be asking is not how we keep these jobs but how we replace them – and
all other jobs in the “defence” industry – with more useful and productive
activity. I don’t understand why so many
of those amongst Wales’s politicians who claim to support the peace movement
aren’t saying the same thing.
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