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By Sharon Graham, General secretary of the Unite union The fight for the future of Port Talbot is a symbol of both our decline – and our recklessness. It’s time for different choices. The story is all too familiar. Tata threatens to quit, a panicked Government writes a cheque, and we’re asked to swallow more job losses. Under the current proposal, the Conservative government is offering £500million to boost the value of Tata’s assets, without giving anything much in return. Just another half a billion tax-payer’s hand-out with no guarantees on jobs, and no say for us about how our money is to …

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