IN the recent EU referendum, the people of St Helens voted by a wide margin to leave.

Fair enough, that's what the majority of people wanted... but is the law of unintended consequences about to give us a hard bite?

There can be little doubt that the Japanese owners of Pilkington are now organising a committee to decide if Brexit will be the final nail in the coffin for its once-great operations in St Helens.

There is every chance the end is in sight for Pilks in St Helens.

So is there anything that we can do? The answer is yes.

It's called the Pilks Plan - a campaign launched by St Helens Green Party last year to reopen the unused glass production lines at Pilkington as a key part of a campaign for one million green jobs in the UK, environmental protection and better care for the elderly.

Due to inadequately weather-proofed homes in the UK, tens of thousands of people - mostly seniors - die every year and huge amounts of fossil fuels are wasted. Green Party policy calls for the weather-proofing of all homes in the UK, for which massive numbers of double and triple glazed windows would be needed. What better place could there be to produce them than at Pilks?

We call on the council, our MPs and the people of St Helens to join us in this effort to save Pilks and bring hundreds of jobs back.

David Jay Morris

St Helens Green Party