The Fleet Solid Support Ship contract is another broken promise by the government - Progress Union

Mike Clancy, General Secretary of Prospect, responding to the Prime Minister's visit to Harland and Wolff to talk about Fleet Solid Support ships, said:

"The Fleet Solid Support Ship contract is another broken promise by the government to protect British ship-building and to support British jobs.

“Since the Prime Minister has betrayed British ship-building by giving this contract to a consortium that will send most of the high value work and intellectual property overseas, he must now guarantee that the little value to the British economy it promises will actually materialise. 

"This must include guaranteeing that the promised British jobs are created. And insisting that British steel that is used to build the ships.

“If he doesn’t what looks like a good deal for Spain will become a great deal as the contract progresses."