Chippy_boy
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Figures. Another moron.
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UK steel industry
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Alan Harper's Tash
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Making friends and influencing people on your way to the Reform conference.Figures. Another moron.
Have you bought your membership yet, or is it still assumed?
I’m quite content in my stupidity.Watch the fucking video you cretin.
You'd start an argument in any empty room.
Seriously, do you think it is a good idea to shut down steel made in coal-burning blast furnances in the UK, so that we can import steel from China, made in coal burning blast furnaces? So they can burn the coal instead and we can happily put Brits out of work and increase global carbon output with the shipping of the stuff? If you don't think that is madness, you are even more stupid than I had imagined.
You seem a bit angry and unhinged though.
Retirement turned you to the odd afternoon tipple, mate?
meltonblue
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Watch the fucking video you cretin.
You'd start an argument in any empty room.
Seriously, do you think it is a good idea to shut down steel made in coal-burning blast furnances in the UK, so that we can import steel from China, made in coal burning blast furnaces? So they can burn the coal instead and we can happily put Brits out of work and increase global carbon output with the shipping of the stuff? If you don't think that is madness, you are even more stupid than I had imagined.
There’s safeguards that limit the amount of steel imported from China, which they’re going to have to extend given the volume of excess China has produced.
We have to import the iron ore and a lot of the coal anyway. We also have an abundance of steel for recycling, which is why moving to electric arc furnaces makes sense and overall actually reduces our imports.
I’d have rather kept some virgin steel production open but most high grade can be done by electric arcs anyway.
mosssideblue
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Anderson certainly is, not surprised your up his arse thoughFigures. Another moron.
Chippy_boy
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One of the few sensible replies on the whole thread. Thanks for that.The whole green fiasco is pointless until the rest of the world joins in. I'm sick of paying thorugh the nose for all the "green" policies, rip off air zones, anti-polluting "road tax" etc etc. We actually share the air with countries like China and India and if the UK stopped producing CO2 tomorrow it won't take long at all until the CO2 we 'saved' is replaced by additional CO2 from other countries. The UK is NOT a "world leader" , we're a small country mugging it's population....
The lefties on here are incapable of criticizing anything the government does. If Labour decided to cut the top rate of tax to 1% for anyone earning more than £1m per year, I can only imagine the hoops the nutters on here would jump through to try to defend it as being a good idea.
Alan Harper's Tash
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The steel industry has been dead for years. Its end was inevitable, whoever was in government. How much was donated to Tata to keep it running?One of the few sensible replies on the whole thread. Thanks for that.
The lefties on here are incapable of criticizing anything the government does. If Labour decided to cut the top rate of tax to 1% for anyone earning more than £1m per year, I can only imagine the hoops the nutters on here would jump through to try to defend it as being a good idea.
mosssideblue
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Which Government are you blaming?One of the few sensible replies on the whole thread. Thanks for that.
The lefties on here are incapable of criticizing anything the government does. If Labour decided to cut the top rate of tax to 1% for anyone earning more than £1m per year, I can only imagine the hoops the nutters on here would jump through to try to defend it as being a good idea.
Chippy_boy
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I am not blaming any government. Today is the first day of the rest of our lives, and I'd like us to do sensible things going forward. You can live in the past wallowing in your criticism of former governments if you like. Harold Wilson was a bit of a tosser wasn't he. And as for that Anthony Eden, well, what can I say.Which Government are you blaming?
Chippy_boy
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Spoken like a true Tory.The steel industry has been dead for years. Its end was inevitable, whoever was in government. How much was donated to Tata to keep it running?
We all KNOW had it been a Tory government that had presided over the closure of the blast furnaces, you'd have been up in arms about it.