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there is a place and a time for governments to intervene in business.
in the last years of the jim callaghan government there was an opportunity to get an order to build a new battleship.
the reds refused to give the company in the north east any help in winning the tender despite it being a high unemployment area.
the order was won by a polish shipyard that had government assistance.
result closure of shipyard hundreds of working skilled people on the dole, taxpayers fund them and their families.
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