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Can One Imagine The Left-Wing Press Criticising Their Party In Such A Way?
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ABers who regularly criticise the Mail for being a 'Right-Wing rag' and for being bias in their reporting, should take a look at today's reports, headlined:
BATTLE TO SAVE BRITAIN'S STEEL INDUSTRY
Especially this:
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That's the difference between having the freedom a voice of one's own, and toeing the Party line.
ABers who regularly criticise the Mail for being a 'Right-Wing rag' and for being bias in their reporting, should take a look at today's reports, headlined:
BATTLE TO SAVE BRITAIN'S STEEL INDUSTRY
Especially this:
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That's the difference between having the freedom a voice of one's own, and toeing the Party line.
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For once, I agree with the DM !
( it has happened once before, when they mounted that excellent campaign to prosecute the killers of Stephen Lawrence ! )
To rely on foreign steel, to power our manufacturing base, would be sheer folly. It looks as if China is slowly but surely putting steel production out of business beyond their borders....it isn't just Britain that is being harmed by this dumping.
Chinese steel may be cheaper today, but what about the future ? Perhaps China will decided to raise its prices, when it knows that there is no longer any viable opposition. What then ? If we have torn down all our steel production, we won't be able to revive the industry very quickly, if at all, when we have to.
We still need steel. Look what a complete fiasco there is around the building of Hinkley Point C, another important infrastructure project given out to foreign owners.
Our Government needs to start protecting the jobs of our own workers, and start safeguarding our "crown jewel" industries.
( it has happened once before, when they mounted that excellent campaign to prosecute the killers of Stephen Lawrence ! )
To rely on foreign steel, to power our manufacturing base, would be sheer folly. It looks as if China is slowly but surely putting steel production out of business beyond their borders....it isn't just Britain that is being harmed by this dumping.
Chinese steel may be cheaper today, but what about the future ? Perhaps China will decided to raise its prices, when it knows that there is no longer any viable opposition. What then ? If we have torn down all our steel production, we won't be able to revive the industry very quickly, if at all, when we have to.
We still need steel. Look what a complete fiasco there is around the building of Hinkley Point C, another important infrastructure project given out to foreign owners.
Our Government needs to start protecting the jobs of our own workers, and start safeguarding our "crown jewel" industries.
AOG
It was Harold Macmillan in the 1980s who accusedHer Royal Highness the Queen of Wesrminster, that we were "selling the family silver". He was right.
It bought the Tories an election victory, but now the country is paying for that. 40,000 jobs will disappear. The Tata business is worthless and we should not waste anymore money there, no bailouts, no subsidies and lining the pockets of foreigners.
The hypocrisy of the Daily Mail is not worth commenting on.
It was Harold Macmillan in the 1980s who accusedHer Royal Highness the Queen of Wesrminster, that we were "selling the family silver". He was right.
It bought the Tories an election victory, but now the country is paying for that. 40,000 jobs will disappear. The Tata business is worthless and we should not waste anymore money there, no bailouts, no subsidies and lining the pockets of foreigners.
The hypocrisy of the Daily Mail is not worth commenting on.
The Chancellor, December 1987
// With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the British Steel Corporation. The corporation today announced its half-year results for 1987–88. These show a bottom line profit of £190 million. This compares to £178 million profit for the whole of 1986–87. This is an impressive improvement in the corporation's performance and I am sure that the House will join me in congratulating the corporation and all its employees on such an impressive achievement.
As the House is aware, the Government are committed to returning successful state industries such as steel to the private sector as soon as practicable. It is quite apparent that the British Steel Corporation has now reached the stage where it would benefit from a return to a fully commercial environment. I am therefore pleased to announce that I am setting in hand the work necessary to privatise the corporation as soon as possible, subject to market conditions. Legislation will be required to turn the corporation into a private company. This will be introduced later in the current Session. //
// With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the British Steel Corporation. The corporation today announced its half-year results for 1987–88. These show a bottom line profit of £190 million. This compares to £178 million profit for the whole of 1986–87. This is an impressive improvement in the corporation's performance and I am sure that the House will join me in congratulating the corporation and all its employees on such an impressive achievement.
As the House is aware, the Government are committed to returning successful state industries such as steel to the private sector as soon as practicable. It is quite apparent that the British Steel Corporation has now reached the stage where it would benefit from a return to a fully commercial environment. I am therefore pleased to announce that I am setting in hand the work necessary to privatise the corporation as soon as possible, subject to market conditions. Legislation will be required to turn the corporation into a private company. This will be introduced later in the current Session. //
To make steel you need Iron ore. The UK has none so we have to import 100% of the Iron ore to make steel. Nearly 5,000.000 tonnes so far this year!
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The argument about losing our steel industry leaving us at the mercy of foreign steel producers is worthless. If they want to 'cripple our industry' as the Daily Wail suggests, they just have to refuse to sell us or increase the price of, Iron ore.
We need to concentrate on importing raw steel as cheaply as possible and then converting it to the high specification / specialised forms we need.
Making steel from Iron ore is a dirty & relatively low technology industry. We can do without that part of it and concern ourselves with turning low cost imported steel into high cost high tech products.
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The argument about losing our steel industry leaving us at the mercy of foreign steel producers is worthless. If they want to 'cripple our industry' as the Daily Wail suggests, they just have to refuse to sell us or increase the price of, Iron ore.
We need to concentrate on importing raw steel as cheaply as possible and then converting it to the high specification / specialised forms we need.
Making steel from Iron ore is a dirty & relatively low technology industry. We can do without that part of it and concern ourselves with turning low cost imported steel into high cost high tech products.
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