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  • My Dad worked as a pharmacist in Speke near the car factory serving the families of the factory workers and witnessed the decline through the 80s and the change in peoples health as more and more became unemployed. And as ever with no hope families with generations of unemployment people do turn to crime and kids become feral.

    Sousers throughout have been resilient and kept up their spirit of generosity.

    Speke shut in 1981 and the writing had been on the wall long before that. The plant was the least productive, most strike prone, and most poorly managed in the entire BL empire, and that is saying a lot. However Ford at Halewood and Vauxhall at Elsmere Port continued and still continue to provide car manufacturing, with Halewood in particular now building Range Rover Evoques, Freelanders, and Jaguars.

    One car plant shutting is not about the city or the government. It's about the fact that it was a terrible car plant.

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