My grandfather went down the pit. So did his father, and his father before him. For hundreds of years, the men of my family dug coal out of County Durham to keep this country's lights on.
Then they shut the pits.
My mam and dad met on a factory floor in County Durham. My brother has spent his whole working life in and out of factory work, because that's what's left when the thing your town was built for gets taken away.
So when I see NSK in Peterlee, Erwin Hymer in Consett, Clayton Glass in Stanley, Greggs in Seaham, I don't see numbers on a spreadsheet. I see my family. I see every family I grew up with.
The companies say "profitability." Here's the truth. Profitability wouldn't be a problem if Britain didn't have some of the highest industrial energy prices in the developed world.
We make things up here. Glass. Bearings. Caravans. Making things takes energy. When energy costs a fortune, the factory closes or the work goes abroad. It really is that simple.
And what is Labour doing about it? Sitting on decisions about drilling our own oil and gas, because it's terrified of losing votes to the Greens in London seats hundreds of miles away.
Our jobs, traded for their seats.
Nobody down there cares about the people up here. They never have.
County Durham powered this country for centuries. We deserve a government that will at least let us keep the lights on in our own factories.