British Steel

[SueEllen]

Naughty Chinese.

I didn't realise how bloody unreasonable the Chinese owners were being until I heard it when I turned on the radio. They expected the British government to write them a blank cheque as they refused to guarantee they would keep the furnaces going.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cyvqm83z1nrt

<RANT>Yep you Welsh and Scottish folk have a right to be angry about Port Talbot and Grangemouth but at the time we didn't have a openly corrupt madman with dementia in the Whitehouse whose agents are happy to bar tourists entry to their country for criticising him on their devices. </RANT>

[Zigenare]

Remove a country's ability to make steel, remove their ability to make ships, tanks, munitions.

Firstly we should'nt have permitted British Steel to be sold to the Indians, never mind the f'king Chinese!

[Snooky]

I hope this doesn't affect Nigel's plans

[DoctorStrangelove]

Remove a country's ability to make steel, remove their ability to make ships, tanks, munitions.

Firstly we should'nt have permitted British Steel to be sold to the Indians, never mind the f'king Chinese!

^^^This. Be nice if we could still make stuff in this country.

Might be even better if TPTB stopped steel (& such like) being dumped in this country.

[Protagoras]

^^^This. Be nice if we could still make stuff in this country.

Might be even better if TPTB stopped steel (& such like) being dumped in this country.

Let's hope this the UK Govt is at last waking up to the notion of 'strategic industries' and the need to have key industries in UK ownership, including public ownership.

[sadkingbilly]

Let's hope this the UK Govt is at last waking up to the notion of 'strategic industries' and the need to have key industries in UK ownership, including public ownership.

this Labour government IS awake, it's the legacy of 14 years of Tory cronyism and blatant fiscal incompetence that they now have to deal with.
All while being blamed for not achieving this in 5 months.

[tazdevil]

this Labour government IS awake, it's the legacy of 14 years of Tory cronyism and blatant fiscal incompetence that they now have to deal with.
All while being blamed for not acheiving this in 5 months.

Nope this lot are even more incompetent than the last lot, at least the last lot had some understanding of economics and strategy. The trouble is they're all cr@p and shouldn't be in charge of anything

[sadkingbilly]

Nope this lot are even more incompetent than the last lot, at least the last lot had some understanding of economics and strategy. The trouble is they're all cr@p and shouldn't be in charge of anything

yeh, how to give it all to their chums.

[Zigenare]

Looks like we're going to be shipping the relevant coking coal from Australia... That should get the Greens in a bit of a tizzy - mind you, *where* did they think the raw materials were going to come from when they issued support for the nationalisation of British Steel?

[Andy2022]

Trouble is the plant has been badly maintained for decades and the furnaces are near the end of the working life - should have started moving to gas fired or electrical furnaces a long time ago and hopefully that'll now happen

Given the subsidies Grangemouth has had I'm yet to be convinced it's not just a way for Ratcliffe to increase his personal wealth at the expense of the taxpayer