Ed’s really good at quoting facts and figures that hide the full story. China Construction in last 20yrs has gone through the roof using 75% of global steel production. Energy, biggest cost of production, is only 25% of UK costs.
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Never mentioned the fact that the slide showed the decline started just as we joined the EEC / EU.
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That’s the point when we had to comply with EU regulations and allow Germany the right to compete directly against us in our traditional markets.
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Same for carbon dioxide but certain fanatics in our country would still tax us to the hilt in a misguided quest to save a few once of CO2. Meanwhile, while we suffer, the rest of the world opens new coal mines everyday. Utter madness.
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Bugger - could they possibly be dumping it in EU at impossibly low prices ? Could they be undercutting European Steel Industry ? Could that be why British Steel under cosh - amongst other things of course .
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Pity the Chinese don’t have to pay EU levied carbon offset fines like British Steel do. More of our taxes being funnelled through the back door to bail out British steel, only to benefit Junker’s wine cellar.
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How is the non-EU US of A getting on, free from all these pesky "EU taxes"? Have a wee think, buttercup. On WTO even US will obliterate British steel and China will just drive it out of existence. Enjoy.
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How on earth could the prospect of an industry and 10,000 jobs being obliterated be enjoyable?
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Just out of interest if we was to build all the things that we have given to the EU here in the UK, like the navy battle ships, would this have saved British Steel?
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And with that, carbon dioxide – which shows that anything the UK does to cut it is, in the great scheme of things, utterly meaningless.
If the UK ceased to exist tomorrow completely – and thus had zero CO2 emissions – the drop would be made up in three months by China's.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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So much for the UK being a world player...
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"Global Britain" she calls it (snigger)
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The quality of Chinese steel is vastly inferior to British and American steel. Its tensile strength is only about 50% relative to its competitors. Any western engineer will confirm this. Chinese are good at stealing technology and copying. Hopeless at original design.
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Cheaper, lower quality steel.
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And they call Trump
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Chinese steel will be full of flaws.
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Scunthorpe does more boutique niche steel perhaps......
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Good job there's no election soon
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That wank stain James o Brian was bashing no deal brexit last week saying our market will open up to global cheap competition? Does the fool no China trump every thing everyone makes everywhere ? We need a little protectionism surely ?
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They got 65 million brand new empty homes. Building 32 mile bridges. Build a nuclear power plant every day. 2018 they built 88 over 200 metre skyscrapers more then anyone in history. Not forgetting there incredible train network the numbers on that are ridiculous
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