Workers outside the Scunthorpe furnaces react to news of British Steel’s plans to close it’s steelmaking operations in the town – putting up to 2,700 jobs at risk.
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sad sad 55 year old and it’s this really steel industry is all I’ve done how long have you been here for on and off 20 years and how are you feeling today bit disappointed but see hopefully government will help us out there’s a lot of young lads near you we’re quite stoical about this sort of situation it’s happened before it’s we do our best and we can but awaits management and government decision are you scared though i don’t think there’s anyone that isn’t scared when this happens but we’re just kind of used to it
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Feel sorry for the guy that hopes the government will help them out….wake up mate
Think about PALESTINE ❤
Buy British was the old saying. We need to have our own industrial base with the quality .We / government sold out to " The Market " & that was / is a disaster.
Just build a massive call centre and import from China…easy
British Steel, British Telecom, Royal Mail & Post Office, Our Essential Utilities & the railways… We privatised them all to varying degrees but the essentials really need to come back under public ownership.
You can’t have a steel industry with UK energy costs. It just doesn’t work. It’s sad but that the reality. Now we need to move on and retrain. – this is the only way to survive. Do you think we should go back to the horse and cart?
Bring back Corby.
I know lets rely on imports 🤦🤦🤦
Depressing
Offshore steel production to the third world to make the elites feel better about themselves. Criminal.
The bit of the UK Climate Change plan that's missing is the new industrial parks that produce primary industrial feedstocks in a way that doesn't cause Climate Change. It'd pretty much all be 'research' / prototype at the moment, but it needs to be happening and it isn't.
British Steel my a#@e. Never been British for years and then they had plenty subs from govt which never got paid back.
NHS is next
Y'all rely on the government to much to help you out. World war 2 ended 80 years ago, you don't need the government to tell you what to do
One of the many mistakes was allowing British steel to be sold to foreign buyers.
What why dont we have a national steel companies , you need that to do anything, cars , agriculture, housing , industrial, hospital , we need to protest these politicians out and get people who will do good by the uk not these snakes of politicians
£1,000,000,000 blackmail plot, and it's only because it was sold to foreigners.
Again the dirty politicians steal British industries and sell them in dodgy deals which those new owners try to blackmail more money out of us.
Why not arrest the blackmailers and dodgy politicians who created this?
now is the time to have a national steel industry, the private company is dumping it, so nationalise and run as necessary national infrastructure.
We better get rid of our defence industry then. We can't use foreign steel for our nuclear subs and munitions.
‘British’ Steel – owned by a Chinese multi-industrial company, Jingye Group, since March 2020. Just another example of this country having been sold out to the highest bidder by governments prioritising privatisation rather investing in public services and industries.
Labour government has not got a clue . Picking on the elderly and disabled. Austerity and more Austerity. We need to slow down on net zero. We need to back our industry. We need steel to build. Not import steel.
My video of a rail tour around the works:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1V-a1VxyzM&t=2s
Didn't sunak give Tata money whilst in downing?
Absolute travesty that these industries are suffering like this . Military spending is going up and we're closing steel works , only in the UK.
Good, start social media influencer career.Thats all left in UK
Why does people expect to never need to learn or adapt? Why do people expect to coast their whole lives learning nothing or living off goverbment handouts?
Britain is dying. Fast. RIP 😢
I wonder if and how many government grants were paid to the owners of that company!!
I’m sick to death of industries leaving these lands.
We need to start producing our own stuff.
You men could run this with your eyes closed, so why not…
Be your own bosses!
Guys and lady's don't wait on government they will not help you at all promise the earth then don't deliver
. Just look at post office the bad blood people the thalidomide case the women under payed not a penny to any off them.?????
Now from that moment all cars will made by China
Thats capitalism.
Government won't really be bothered about UK People
The government won’t bother. There’s nothing “Labour” about them.
Been working here 8 weeks now, really enjoyed it and thought about finally settling down to climb the career ladder as it is genuinely a good place to work, the work is hard but enjoyable and most of all, all the people I meet on the plant are pleasant unlike most factories I've worked at.
Would be a shame to see it go but I don't see labour doing anything to save it they'd sooner give all our money away overseas.
Labour winning again we see
Should be nationalised asap all the steel should go into building naval ships instead of importing the stuff,,🤬🤬🤬 the carriers and others full of steel from turkey 😮😮😮 we need to be able to manufacture our own metal 😊😊
As a conservative normally I’m actually backing starkers government. Savings need to be made but they also need to have a real plan in place to support critical industries such as Steel. It needs to be bought of the Chinese then sold to the UK gov and invested in. Same with the water companies and power companies. The gov should own critical industry and also utilities. That’s not to say they will have a monopoly but it needs to be done.
People of Britain don’t care about steel else they would do something about it
Something else that's being taken from us nationally. What IS governing our government? … nationally we need to wake up.
Dividends win
Net zero and Labour will cost you jobs
The biggest issue I see here is with everything going on in the worle, wether thwres a war or not. Military spending is going up. Where are they planning on buying all the steel from in a war or sonething? China? Yeah dream on
Why is this closing? So we can buy american steel to please the orange faced burger king? I certainly suspect that's a big part of it.
Yes the political class don't care about Steel manufacturing in this country
Scrap all environmental regulations and the steel industry will thrive again
Nationalise or this will the biggest betrayal of a town and the British people
Sell all your essential industries to your competitors and expect them to make them thrive. You couldn't make this up.
Meanwhile drive a green agenda to make them completely unviable and act surprised when they all get closedown.
Way to go incompetent UK governments. What a set of muppets.
Starmer will probably give it to China