Welsh economy loses out to the British Virgin Islands | Letters

Dominic Grieve seems extraordinarily perplexed about the economy and people of the British Virgin Islands (David Cameron must come clean on tax, says Jeremy Corbyn, theguardian.com, 5 April). What about the economy and people of south Wales? Are we all equally perplexed about destroying the livelihoods of its inhabitants? Of course, how silly of me, self-evidently it's harder for a handful of service sector workers in a Caribbean enclave to reinvent themselves successfully in another guise - as clergymen, perhaps - than it is for 15,000 industrial workers (and 25,000 more in the wider community) here in the UK. And after all, look how easy it proved to be for mining communities the length and breadth of the country back in the 80s.
Colin Montgomery
Edinburgh

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