I really don’t think Dundee has recovered from the lose of companies like NCR, Levi’s, Timex etc, people have found other employment but not to the same wage level in many cases, our biggest employers these days are call centres
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Labour is doing well in Wales because Wales is a traditional Labour heartland and Plaid Cymru hasn't pushed its independence agenda as aggressively as it might; it probably isn't even that serious about independence. Obviously it doesn't help Plaid Cymru that there's no real stomach for independence in Wales which is essentially just an English annex. Scotland was a traditional Labour heartland of course but the SNP drive for independence has steamrolled Labour out the way.
I think if Scotland was to gain independence there might be a swing away from Labour in Wales toward Plaid Cymru. Whether there are enough Welsh people left with sufficient nationalistic feeling to swing independence is doubtful for me.
But they found jobs?
I agree that a lot of people might have taken a step down in earnings but by the same token as many will have found work at the same level of or even higher earnings, it would be the same for the 6,000 you quote if Trident was to go.
A job in a call centre is no less worthy of being called a job than the job of furnaceman in a smelter, face worker in a mine or assembler at Timex.