Fife Labour politicians are demanding Westminster supports a rescue bid for the kingdom’s two Remploy factories.
MPs Lindsay Roy, Thomas Docherty and Gordon Brown will call for government backing at a meeting with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith on Wednesday.
They will present a business plan showing how under current Government proposals, the Cowdenbeath and Leven factories would be destroyed because of what they call “an unfair and unrealistic privatisation”.
In their plan, the MPs show how government support of £1.6 million in the financial year ending in 2012 is being slashed to less than £140,000 a year across the coming three years.
However, say the politicians, the factories have a full order book and the prospect of expansion if their future can be assured.
It is because of this the politicians have sought to convene a meeting at Westminster with the UK and Scottish governments and Fife Council.
Scottish Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing will attend, as will representatives from the local authority.
The three MPs say a doubling of transitional help from the UK and Scottish Governments is needed to save the two 60-year-old factories, which provide employment for disabled workers.
They say that it would be economic madness to allow two factories with full order books, a world-renowned product and the possibility of a 25% rise in sales to go under and that the jobs could be lost to Asia.
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