Monday Morning* Moan - Cool Britannia? UK Prime Minster Keir Starmer is in ‘something must be done’ mode at the start of London Tech Week (again)
For centuries, Warrington was at the forefront of Britain’s soap-making industry Until a few years ago, a Unilever factory was its epicentre.
As UK Prime Minster Keir Starmer told an audience at the opening of London Tech Week earlier today:
Generations of local people worked there. Families built their lives around it.And for over 130 years, the smell of soap from that factory was a familiar part of daily life.
It’s a quaint evocation of the kind of down to earth, working class community that was once the beating heart of Starmer’s Labour Party.
Tell us more, Prime Minister:
But then it closed.
Oh! Bummer!
But fear not as Starmer has good news:
That factory is being transformed - into a new AI data center!…Young people can look at that site and see not what their community used to be. But what it can become.
What? A factory employing generations...
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