Dave Smith: 'This is not spying on terrorists, this is political policing'

Dave Smith's path into the construction industry was clear; all of his male relatives had followed the same one. Once ensconced within the industry, he became a union rep, and then the work dried up ‘in the middle of a building boom’. He’d been the victim of an illegal practice known as blacklisting. In the second episode of The Justice Gap Podcast, Dave Smith tells Calum McCrae that, though this was devastating, it wasn’t unexpected. Finding out that undercover police were colluding with the blacklisting, definitely was.