REGARDING your report (LET, January 12) about Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle joining a last-ditch parliamentary attempt to stop the closure of the Royal Ordnance Factory in Blackburn and the sale of the ROF at Euxton.
Why didn't these MPs kick up a fuss 15 years ago when the then Thatcher government got rid of the ROFs and sold them off to BAe at a knock-down price and also sold the tank factory at Leeds to Vickers?
I think it's a futile exercise as the Blackburn ROF site is already half covered with new houses and Euxton is earmarked for a 'super village.'
It's just a bit of sabre rattling 15 years too late -- to justify the existence of these MPs.
Britain's armaments industry, as we once knew it, is gone. God held us if we ever have another real war.
P BROADLEY (ex ROF employee), Beechwood Drive, Blackburn.
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