Shame on politicians as steelworkers suffer

SO they’re at it again. Our MPs, who work so hard, and who this country cannot survive without, have their snouts in the trough again, giving themselves a 1.4% pay rise, £9,000 in the past two years, yet deny more deserving people, like nurses, doctors, police officers, firefighters, soldiers, and public-sector workers in general far less. Their alreadygold-plated pensions will also rise, yet they deny former steelworkers at ASW, Tata, and thousands in the FAS the pensions they have already paid for, and in their own words and literature these pensions were safe and protected by law no matter what happened to the company.

Only last year former ASW steelworkers handed a letter in to 10 Downing Street asking the UK government to look again at ways in which these promised pensions could be fully restored. Of the 40 Welsh MPs who were asked to sign, only eight had the decency to support Welsh families, 32 refused pointblank, and 12 of those had constituents affected by what is the biggest social injustice this country has ever known. A disgrace.

Our Prime Minister has said she wants to end social injustices, like that at ASW and Tata. Pull the other one, Mrs May, your government and the previous Labour government are just a bunch of money-grabbers who believe it is the taxpayers’ duty to give the 650 MPs in Westminster an open cheque. I say shame on the damn lot of you, but you know no shame, as you don’t feel others’ pain. John Benson Dinas Powis