I typed out a reply that either disappeared into the ether or was deleted (I suspect the former, there was nothing rude or controversial in it), but suffice to say I don't think the answer to the issues for the workers of the rust belt or Grimsby lies with the ultra-free market economics of the alt-right.

We need to educate our workers to compete with the far east and we need to encourage science and education to innovate and develop the new technologies that will drive us forward in the future. As Brexit and Trump are both fundamentally anti-science in their approach they will hold us back in the long run.

Re-opening mines, foundries and out of date production lines will to help these communities spring back to life, they need more long-term and creative solutions to their problems, not a return to the 1970's.