Tata Steel

3000 jobs to go closing both furnaces at Port Talbot plant devastating news for the people effected and the wider community, I bet senior management still collect their little bonus.
Didn't hear the full report but it was mentioned that it will now make the UK entirely reliant on foreign steel

 

Don't we still have steelworks in Scunthorpe?

Regardless, that's a devastating number of jobs to be lost.

 

I think Scunny still makes steel.

 

Another nail in the coffin of British industry. It's a real shame as they were working hard to reduce the carbon footprint of steel making there.

 

Scunny is also teetering on the brink - under Chinese ownership I believe.
Sold down the river by you know who.

 

They're not closing down according to the report I read, it's about being greener.. currently they are using coal fired furnaces but are switching to electric furnaces that needs far fewer people to run.

 

Horrible for the workers and British manufacturing in general but I can't blame them one bit for closing. After all these years of Tory rule it's become unsustainable for quite a lot of businesses to survive in the UK due to over a decade of miss-management of the economy and a government hell bent on crippling the country in their pursuit of an Aryan race. If international law won't stop them from trying to achieve their aims at all costs a little thing like the lower class was having jobs certainly won't. Ethnic cleansing is their only priority, they do not care about jobs, the economy, standard of living or anything else because it doesn't affect the scum we have in charge.

 

Wow. Eight years nearly now.

 

Scunny are also Tata

 

How Farage and Boris aren't doing time for treason is beyond me.

 

You're right although an unfortunate fact of the electric arc furnaces is that the plant won't be able to produce virgin steel as they can only produce steel from scrap. This means that the UK will lose the ability to manufacture its own steel which, from a national security point of view, doesn't seem very wise.

 

Is it just me that thinks that the steel industry (or bosses) are probably Syphoning money off left right and centre, and then call in the government to bail them out. And round and round it goes?

I may have a completely wrong view on it, and happy to be corrected. But this is happening too much, and the tax payer constantly footing the bill

 

Aptly named.

 

It's a thought provoking conundrum when being greener could be against the strategic national interest...although it does allow us to melt scrap here in the UK that is currently shipped abroad... interesting article here

https://theconversation.com/electri...e-british-steelmaking-more-sustainable-214756

 

I think we should go back to eating with bits of whittled rock and burning twigs to keep us warm. Life was a lot simpler back then.

 

Till the Tories privatised the rocks and taxed the trees.

 

Was just trying to add balance. You can't say "bless the poor steel workers" then say "comba yah let's cross the Atlantic in a canoe".

Clean living has it's casualties unfortunately. Then you have social deprivation as a consequence because it's hard for a proud man taking home a good wage to start pushing trolleys round a car park.

 

Let's hope we don't get involved in a war. Oh, hang on...

 

We'll be right we're re- launching the Victory.