Arms Factory Plan Under Attack
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As the British government announces a dozen possible sites for new arms factories, Pembrokeshire protest group PARC Against DARC has made clear its opposition to the possibility of one of the earmarked locations being Milford Haven.
It says it is “categorically against increased military spending at the behest of the US and Trump. We are against the rush to war with Russia, but even more so against the bigger risk of inciting a whole new Cold War.
The campaign set up in 2024 in opposition to the proposed US/UK military space radar station at Brawdy says a munitions factory in Milford Haven is unnecessary and unwanted and would be bad for the area.
It says: “At a time when political solutions to conflict are needed more than ever, the UK Labour government always seems to have the money to find yet another excuse to paint a military target on Wales’s back, and add to the long litany of armament factories, military bases and training grounds that already litter our rural communities.
“It is no coincidence to us that they rarely seem to find a reason to put many of them in the nicer parts of the South of England, but they’re happy to push for arms factories and massive radar farms in some of the most beautiful parts of our country.
“Defence Secretary John Healey’s suggested 1,000 jobs across 13 sites is not a very significant number of jobs at all for the privilege of making Milford Haven – which sits on the UK’s largest high-pressure gas pipeline and is known for a nearby major oil refinery – into even more of a target in wars that the UK Labour government, and perhaps the US arms interests adjacent to it, seem to be only too excited to try and start.”
More information: www.parcagainstdarc.com.
