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By *oyce69Man
over a year ago
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David Cameron should hang his head in shame, the same day they shut the steelworks in Scunthorpe he was signing a deal with the Chinese effectively putting a nail in the coffin of our steel industry. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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No doubt Tata will be holding out for some UK gov money!.
This is one of the problems I have with the EU, it's far too slow to react to situations, we should have raised temporary Chinese tariffs on steel at the start of this problem |
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"David Cameron should hang his head in shame, the same day they shut the steelworks in Scunthorpe he was signing a deal with the Chinese effectively putting a nail in the coffin of our steel industry."
The EU stops us protecting our home industries and imposing import tariffs, even if we wanted to |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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How times have changed
Who would have thought, one hundred years ago, that the fortunes of a British industry would be decided around a Mumbai board room table ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"How times have changed
Who would have thought, one hundred years ago, that the fortunes of a British industry would be decided around a Mumbai board room table ?"
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Times haven't changed that much, India provided most of the empires wealth!.
It's just the folks sitting round the table in Mumbai that's changed |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"£1m a day loss, can't see anyway of sustaining that"
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It's really easy, you just apply a trade tariff on Chinese steel to the point that makes welsh steel profitable! |
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"£1m a day loss, can't see anyway of sustaining that.
It's really easy, you just apply a trade tariff on Chinese steel to the point that makes welsh steel profitable!"
Except it's not. We're hidebound by being in the EU, and we have Thatch/Heath to thank for it, along with Thatch's almost religious doctrine of free market economy and monetarism.
Except the real world isn't like that.
I'd have critical national infrastructure and industry back in state control. Inefficient - yes, but better than putting hundreds of thousands on the dole where it costs us more financially as well as socially |
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By *olgateMan
over a year ago
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"£1m a day loss, can't see anyway of sustaining that.
It's really easy, you just apply a trade tariff on Chinese steel to the point that makes welsh steel profitable!
Except it's not. We're hidebound by being in the EU, and we have Thatch/Heath to thank for it, along with Thatch's almost religious doctrine of free market economy and monetarism.
Except the real world isn't like that.
I'd have critical national infrastructure and industry back in state control. Inefficient - yes, but better than putting hundreds of thousands on the dole where it costs us more financially as well as socially"
I have always said this.
For all her faults there is no way Maggie would have Chinese steel being used to build British warships |
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"£1m a day loss, can't see anyway of sustaining that.
It's really easy, you just apply a trade tariff on Chinese steel to the point that makes welsh steel profitable!
Except it's not. We're hidebound by being in the EU, and we have Thatch/Heath to thank for it, along with Thatch's almost religious doctrine of free market economy and monetarism.
Except the real world isn't like that.
I'd have critical national infrastructure and industry back in state control. Inefficient - yes, but better than putting hundreds of thousands on the dole where it costs us more financially as well as socially
I have always said this.
For all her faults there is no way Maggie would have Chinese steel being used to build British warships "
But it was she who destroyed our heavy industries such as steel and the coal that powered it. She campaigned vigorously at the last referendum to stay in the EU, labelling Tony Benn et al, as Marxist traitors for saying we'd be better off out |
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It doesnt need to be in state control.. we've been down that road and we know its a dead end.. what it does need is state patronage and support.. i.e. tariffs thaf bite - commitment to use uk steel on uk infrastructure-and tax incentives for uk companies who do the same.. easy peasy. |
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