On 3 May 2019, from Unite:
Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, has written to the new defence secretary Penny Mordaunt urging her to take action in the Sea King asbestos scandal. This follows a new Freedom of Information release has revealed that the MoD’s records show that on at least 100 occasions workers had been exposed to asbestos.
Last year it was revealed that thousands of workers who undertook maintenance on the Sea King helicopter between 1969 and 2018, when it was decommissioned could have been exposed to asbestos. The MoD has been forced to finally admit that 90 of the helicopters components contained asbestos.
Since the MoD was forced to admit that workers could potentially have been exposed to asbestos, Unite has sought to ensure that everyone potentially affected, including current and former employees, are both notified and given medical checks. The MoD has said it is unable to do so as it lacks a ‘central record’ of who worked on the Sea King.
https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2019/may/new-portsmouth-defence-secretary-must-act-on-sea-king-asbestos-scandal/
Did Mordaunt act? There’s no sign of anything.
How important was that ask?
Asbestos is the biggest cause of work-related deaths in Britain https://www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/asbestos-biggest-cause-work-related-deaths-britain-iwmd
Figures reveal 396 people died of the asbestos related disease Mesothelioma in Devon and Cornwall in the last 5 years https://www.shieldservicesgroup.com/figures-reveal-396-people-died-of-the-asbestos-related-disease-mesothelioma-in-devon-and-cornwall-in-the-last-5-years/
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Penny supports Trident. Illegal wars, tax evasion and financial fraud. Brexit losing £Billions. £100Billion a year.
2019/20. UK raised £813Billion+ in revenues. 2020/21 UK Revenues raised £731Billion+. UK Gov spending £1006Billion+ In the rest of the UK.
Scotland raises £87Billion in revenues. Spends £54Billion. Where does the rest go? To be wasted by the UK Treasury.
Penny pinching revenues. Supporting policies wasting £Billions. Soon the voters will tell them where to go.
Tories cut NHS funding £20Billion. £125Billion a year since 2015. Instead of increasing it. Spend £250Billion on pensions/benefits. Instead of increasing Gov pension to save on administration costs. Save by increasing pensions so people do not have to apply for ‘benefits’. The lowest Gov pensions in Europe. 1/4 of average earnings.
The Tories are a disgrace and soon will go. A few months left? Thank goodness.
Scotland would ge far better off Independent. Handling its own matters. Better off, more prosperous, equal and fair. Independence supporters voting for unionist parties will not support Independence.
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with approx 350 Sea Kings built a lot of their maintenance and upgrades would have happened here.
https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/18807879.rnas-culdrose-history-sea-king-helicopter/
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So instead of “Victorian diseases and rats” they get 21st Century diseases and abdication of responsibility
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