It was always on the cards, wasn't it? We knew it was coming,
didn't we? They'd told us years ago. We just kept crossing our fingers and
hoping it would all go away. Maybe some of the employees will get a wee package
out of it all, won't do too badly. Short-sighted thinking, as ever! No
recognition of the need to step forward to actively secure jobs for our youth,
for our future. I'm pretty sure there was no huge lobby to modernise the
systems here. No big Stormont backed, Arlene Foster led investment campaign to
ensure that Coleraine is the number one service provider for UK. And the last
ditch protest was pitiful. Not much of a rumpus really. A few dozen workers
with banners standing outside the Townhall. What on earth do we pay Irene that
big fat wage for? Isn't she supposed to
be seeking out employment opportunities? Shouldn't she be leading the fight
against such closures? Shouldn't she be pre-empting difficulties and throwing
money into ensuring we retrain employees and properly resource the services we
had already been supplying to make them fit for purpose? As they obviously did
in Swansea. They could have centralised
services here, in Northern Ireland. We could have 'grown' our systems to meet
the demand for modernisation. We certainly deserve better than seeing our
Minister for Employment wait 'til it's nearly all over, 'til the offices are
about to be closed and then come out and dance a merry tune. Doesn't she want votes at the next election?
It seems to me we hand out our votes too easily in this country. Don't you
think?
300 jobs gone!!! I think we can safely say that there won't be
too many young people round here lining up to vote for Arlene's party at the
next elections!
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