In November last year I blogged about the hugely inflated estimates on the number of jobs the St Athan Military Academy will bring to Wales being bandied around by politicians of all parties. One of the biggest cheerleaders for the ...Luther ap Blissett -
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John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan, Labour) HOC Welsh Affairs 28th Feb here
John Smith I qualify my remarks by saying that the final negotiations are not complete and will not be for some time. I hope that Main Gate 2 will be ready in spring, and we will have a clearer picture then. However, I shall give the revised figures. There will be roughly just over 1,000 trainers' jobs—in training design and general training provision—just over 1,000 support jobs for training on the site; and 1,000 full-time military jobs on the site. That is approximately—we must be careful—3,000 jobs.
Trainers and military are not jobs to be advertised in barry job centre!
Monbiot. I notice his guardian article today is relevant to the Ffos y fran and St Athan project!He looks at other 'projects' usually unethical and often dangerous to the environment are promoted and welcomed by politicans for JOBS which turn out to cost millions to the tax payer.
The Metrix consortium itself devised the formula for the number of jobs to be created!!!
Snow Jobs
April 1, 2008 The employment figures attached to large projects tend to be codswallop.
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