CushtyJook 1,097 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Properly in the shittah by the sounds of it I fell sorry for the people who will be loosing their jobs some that have worked most of there life in the steel works 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CushtyJook 1,097 Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 I worked in port Talbot steel works for a year, by fook it was grim, I proper feel for the men that have went to work there ever day and slogged there guts out, to be treated like this now. Fooking damn shame I can see scrap going back to the days when you had to pay to take it away to be honest also Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tatsblisters 9,542 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Bad news for thousands of workers and its an industry that needs saveing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 46,712 Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 Blame China, they need some liquid cash so they are releasing a big heap of their stockpile onto the world market 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
treecreeper 1,136 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Don't bank on it cushty, The furnaces can't be shut off so they only need to feck the market short term until they go bump. Maybe im just synical. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CushtyJook 1,097 Posted October 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Blame China, they need some liquid cash so they are releasing a big heap of their stockpile onto the world market How an they produce it for cheaper and we English cannot tho that's what I don't understand Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BGD 6,436 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Blame China, they need some liquid cash so they are releasing a big heap of their stockpile onto the world market How an they produce it for cheaper and we English cannot tho that's what I don't understand State subsidies. They're also selling at a loss at the moment just to keep the furnaces running I think? Don't know why anyone is surprised, another Tory government, another British industry killed. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nothernlite 18,078 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 (edited) All started with maggie thatcher and the torys shame British industry fecked NHS is will be next Edited October 21, 2015 by nothernlite 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 46,712 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 NHS is will be next And not before time, that particular firm needs totally broken down and start again !! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbriar 8,569 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 HS2 will need countless miles of steel rail, as will the proposed HS3 and the proposed modernisation existing lines. I know, says Cameron, let's allow our steel mills to close and give the job to the Chinese instead ! Oh, and while we're at it, on the same day as this devastating announcement, why don't we roll out Her Majesty and a red carpet to welcome the Chinese leader......! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BGD 6,436 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Am I right in saying this is Britain's steel making capability completely finished? 100% reliant on foreign imports from now on? I can't see how that's good for the country Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stealthy1 3,964 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Problem is, too much steel produced worldwide, there are stock piles of the stuff, both scrap and new. We just don't use steel in the quantities that are produced, even the Chinese can't shift it at bottom dollar prices. The NHS is bust due to it being abused, to many pen pushers and not enough nurses. The doctors know f**k all. I used to think doctors were well trained to a high standard in this country, until I became really ill, and then I saw them in the real light of day, most of them no nothing, and worse than that, you can't tell them they know nothing, because they are so far up their own arses it's pitch black, and you can't go any were to complain. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BGD 6,436 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 So defense industry steel etc is safe? Fair enough, steel a bad do though Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stealthy1 3,964 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 HS2 is not for the people, it's a bus ride out of London to the new cheaper country homes for the few who can afford it, and nothing else, another con. The trains we have now can do 125mph, but they don't, or can't. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
truescot 234 Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 The steel workers should do what the ship yard workers did in Glasgow. Refused to leave and kept on working . Forced the government into doing something. Knowing this government though they probably f***ing jail them lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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