Keir Starmer, PM of Britain + the northeastern corner of Ireland, said that 5000 lightweight-multirole missiles will be made for Ukraine at the Thales weapons plant in Belfast, creating 200 jobs
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/order-for-5000-missiles-for-ukraine-hugely-significant-for-belfast-robinson-1735921.html
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PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
200 jobs for 1.6Billion pounds. So that means those employees are going to be getting paid at least ~1million pounds each over the life of the contract right? Must be super high-paying jobs in order to even bother discussing it right?
vzq@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
5000, not 500.
DasKapitalist@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
fixed
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
The northeastern corner of Ireland? Don't like that phrasing. Northern Ireland is a different country from the rest of Ireland, not just a part of it.
To be fair... Ireland reunification is based, so long as England fucks off