Starmer’s plan to build a bomb factory on a gas pipeline in Milford Haven
Posted: 21st November 2025
PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release 19/11/25
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Starmer’s plan to build a bomb factory on a gas pipeline in Milford Haven shows yet more contempt for Wales, say Campaigners
As anti Radar Campaign opposes Military munitions base in Milford Haven
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BEGINS.
Following today’s UK Government announcement that Milford Haven has been earmarked as a potential site for a new military munitions factory in Wales, PARC Against DARC the campaign which set up in 2024 in opposition to the proposed US run military Space radar at Brawdy in Pembrokeshire, has issued a statement opposing any further militarism in Wales as well as what it describes as “The UK’s current drive to war at the behest of the US and Trump”.
The statement lays out key arguments against a munitions factory in Milford Haven saying it is unnecessary and unwanted and would be bad for the area.
The statement reads:
“PARC Against DARC is categorically against increased military spending at the behest of the US and Trump. We are against the rush to war with Russia, but even more so against the bigger risk of inciting a whole new Cold War with China.”
“At a time when political solutions to conflict are needed more than ever, the UK Labour government always seems to have the money to find yet another excuse to paint a military target on Wales’s back, and add to the long litany of armament factories, military bases and training grounds that already litter our rural communities. It is no coincidence to us that they rarely seem to find a reason to put many of them in the nicer parts of the South of England, but they’re happy to push for arms factories and massive radar farms in some of the most beautiful parts of our country.”
“John Healey’s suggested 1,000 jobs across 13 sites is not a very significant number of jobs at all for the privilege of making Milford Haven—which sits on the UK’s largest high-pressure gas pipeline and is known for a nearby major oil refinery—into even more of a target in wars that the UK Labour government, and perhaps the US arms interests adjacent to it, seem to be only too excited to try and start.”
“We find it especially abhorrent that Defence Secretary John Healey is now parroting the US’s aggressive rhetoric, using phrases such as “war fighting readiness” when a nation’s priority should always be to strive towards maintaining peace, not pushing for war.”
“Have we learned nothing from the aggressive colonial wars of Iraq or Afghanistan? Hundreds of thousands of people from all nations died as a result of the UK propping up US aggression purely for the sake of US supremacy and domination of oil and resources.”
“We do not need a US-run DARC space wars radar in Pembrokeshire, and a munitions factory in Milford Haven would bring a pitiful number of jobs for how much of a military target it would make a town on a high-pressure gas pipeline. It would bring absolutely nothing positive to the area.”
“Military spending is the worst type of public spending in terms of boosting an economy. After fifteen years of austerity and cuts to our social infrastructure, we need investment in public services and to reverse the cost of living crisis far more than we need to exacerbate the decline in people’s living standards by siphoning yet more profits to arms companies and military producers.”
“Agitation for war is an extremely polluting and high carbon exercise. To tackle the climate emergency and provide high skilled, secure jobs in Pembrokeshire we need massive investment in green jobs as part of a coherent green industrial strategy.”
“The UK government claims these moves are about Russia, but given that Russia was always highly unlikely to attempt open warfare with the whole of Europe and NATO combined, we’re far more concerned about the government escalating tensions with China.”
“The rhetoric coming from our leaders seems to be attempting to manufacture a consensus view that China is a huge global threat, but when you consider that the US has over 750 military bases around the world where China has none, and the fact that the US has been involved in wars with almost every country on earth whereas China has been involved in no foreign wars since 1991, it begs the question: who are the real aggressors here? And why should the UK blindly follow the US war drive when there is no evidence that we are under threat?”
The anti radar Campaign has recently gained increased political support with a Statement of Opinion opposing DARC being signed by a third of Welsh Senedd members and a similar EDM (Early Day Motion) named DARC in Wales gaining cross party support from MP’s in Westminster.
Both Plaid Cymru and the Green Party have officially supported the campaign which tells us they remain resolutely against DARC Radar or any munitions factory in Milford Haven and are ready to fight any planning applications “if ever submitted”.
Adding: “A big shake up of the Senedd is expected in the next Senedd elections in May 2026 which will see a change of the voting system to proportional representation and an increase to 96 MS’s as well as votes for 16 to 18’s, therefore the probability of a progressive coalition government in Wales comprised of Plaid Cymru, Greens and Lib Dems which is likely to be far less sympathetic to DARC or any further militarism of Wales.
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Notes to Editors.
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Full Links
Early Day Motion tabled by Liz Saville Roberts MP on 19/03/25 in UK Parliament.
EDM 975 – DARC in Wales
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/63346
Statement of Opinion – Senedd - https://record.assembly.wales/StatementOfOpinion/460
Consultation on DARC – Send your questions directly to the MOD via their London Based PR firm Cascade Communications; [email protected]
Or by using their online feedback form; www.gov.uk/guidance/deep-space-advanced-radar-capability-darc
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