Good heavens – Westland is causing political waves again.
Labour MPs from Sheffield are complaining because a Somerset helicopter manufacturer – the same one which somehow caused Michael Heseltine to walk out of Mrs Thatcher’s Cabinet back in the 1980s – has been given a government loan by Vince Cable. The same man who refused an earlier loan to Sheffield Forgemasters.
This is obviously suspicious because the Westland factory is in Yeovil, the constituency represented now by David Laws & previously by Paddy Ashdown.
But – doesn’t Nick Clegg represent a Sheffield constituency? Yes, but the other six Sheffield MPs are all Labour, so they obviously don’t get as much gravy.
