Fuck Wales and fuck Port Talbot in particular I guess! Nice one Labour
It’s certainly a bad look for UK Labour on the face of it.
Whilst it could be argued that electric arc furnaces are still going to be put into Port Talbot and remain somewhat open whilst Scunthorpe was had no such option, it still doesn’t make the loss of those 2800 port Talbot jobs any more bearable for those who lost out.
Whilst I’ve voted labour for every election I can remember, I’m starting to think it’s time to send a message to Westminster that they shouldn’t take Wales for granted either.
Edit: clearly I don’t have entirely the correct interpretation of this issue, look to comments for clarification.
totally different issue, Scunthorpe is for virgin steel
The two situations aren’t directly equivalent. Nationalising wasn’t necessary with Tata because it worked out a £500m deal with the then Conservative government, however British Steel has rejected a similar deal and so the current government are having to choose between paying a private business even more money to continue production or nationalising the Scunthorpe plant.
The Scunthorpe plant contains the only functioning blast furnaces in the UK and they’re about to go offline due to lack of materials, so you can understand why the government doesn’t want to to hang around negotiating. We need the capacity to produce virgin steel.
Westminster fucks over Wales. In other news a bear has shit in the woods.
Wales and Scotland alike. They shut down Strathclyde steel works in the 90’s, the English government didn’t do a damn thing to renationalise it, then the steel works in port talbot shut this year, the English government didn’t do a damn thing to renationalise it. Now that Scunthorpe is going to close? Suddenly they’re all for renationalisation
This is just another example of Labour taking Wales for granted.
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Fuck Wales and fuck Port Talbot in particular I guess! Nice one Labour
It’s certainly a bad look for UK Labour on the face of it.
Whilst it could be argued that electric arc furnaces are still going to be put into Port Talbot and remain somewhat open whilst Scunthorpe was had no such option, it still doesn’t make the loss of those 2800 port Talbot jobs any more bearable for those who lost out.
Whilst I’ve voted labour for every election I can remember, I’m starting to think it’s time to send a message to Westminster that they shouldn’t take Wales for granted either.
Edit: clearly I don’t have entirely the correct interpretation of this issue, look to comments for clarification.
totally different issue, Scunthorpe is for virgin steel
The two situations aren’t directly equivalent. Nationalising wasn’t necessary with Tata because it worked out a £500m deal with the then Conservative government, however British Steel has rejected a similar deal and so the current government are having to choose between paying a private business even more money to continue production or nationalising the Scunthorpe plant.
The Scunthorpe plant contains the only functioning blast furnaces in the UK and they’re about to go offline due to lack of materials, so you can understand why the government doesn’t want to to hang around negotiating. We need the capacity to produce virgin steel.
Westminster fucks over Wales. In other news a bear has shit in the woods.
Wales and Scotland alike. They shut down Strathclyde steel works in the 90’s, the English government didn’t do a damn thing to renationalise it, then the steel works in port talbot shut this year, the English government didn’t do a damn thing to renationalise it. Now that Scunthorpe is going to close? Suddenly they’re all for renationalisation
This is just another example of Labour taking Wales for granted.
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