The People Of Port Talbot Must Be Pleased With Brexit (Not)

[Hymie]

[davebro3]

Isn't Stanlow currently operating?

Or are you saying it was closed & has re-opened?

[10ClarionSt]

Sorry dave, what I meant was (should have said) that they vastly changed the distribution system, which meant lots of job losses.

[davebro3]

Ah - they made it more efficient. Reprehensible!

[Peter Pedant]

damn

Net Zero means what it says on the tin

I was gonna add: ' n zero prospects' - but boys and girls, isnt the world moving toward electric furnaces ? in which case Brexit is in the long term irrelvant

[Peter Pedant]

Let it be said - I added above with no intention to add a drop ( tad, tiddle-widdle) of common sense into these post

horribile dictu ! AB hic est! - ( This is AB!).

I will take my tiddle-widdle elsewhere ! - sozza it is AB, and it IS Sat

[davebro3]

Oh dear PP - keep taking the tablets!

[Peter Pedant]

for my er tiddle widdle ? Like King Charles I am

[Old_Geezer]

Surely it must be high time some accepted reality and stopped blaming everything they can find on Brexit simply because they prefer to be dominated by foreign masters/mistresses. For goodness sake, get a life people.

[ladybirder]

Seconded OG.

[naomi24]

^Thirded.

[ToraToraTora]

AH: "So screaming that "It's Brexit!" is a pointless knee-jerk reaction which is ignoring the changes in steel production that have been evolving for decades." - oops that's 100% of Hymie's reasoning gone! Everything is the fault of brexit!

[douglas9401]

I suppose better to be dominated by foreign businesses and their whims than foreign politicians and their perceived biases.

Please, save yourselves the bother of raising your flags and donning union jack waistcoats before educating and informing me of my errors and poor choices.

[Hymie]

Back in 2016, that complete idiot Nigel Farage said – ‘If we vote remain on 23rd June it will be the end of the steel industry in the country, simple as that, we must leave the EU.’

 

I wonder if he will now apologise to the people of Port Talbot, or for that matter the whole of the UK for wrecking our economy.

 

[Old_Geezer]

One issue at a time Doug. The power of the merchants to manipulate elected governments (especially those who want their merchant mates to hold sway) is a global issue and needs tackling both separately, and globally.

[theshedman]

Yes Hymie, if we had stayed the EU wanted to make most of the steel in Germany and other parts of mainland Europe and not the UK and so the Port Talbot steel works has nothing to do with Brexit.  Is there anything that you do not blame Brexit for in your life.  

[Old_Geezer]

Hymie your statement is about the industry getting hit if we stayed in the EU. That leaving didn't solve everything doesn't say anything about it causing anything. So you make no point. In fact the blinkered strategy of allowing vital industries to be sold into foreign ownership, who have no incentive to do what is right for your nation, is what causes such issues. Take that up with Westminster.

[douglas9401]

Not 'oven ready' then?

[Old_Geezer]

As you know  the "oven ready " agreement was rejected by the EU. They presumably thought it didn't cause enough issues to suit their aims.

[Hymie]

Ah, our Brexit problems are all the fault of the EU for not agreeing to our demands – free access to their markets (for goods & services), free movement of our citizens to Europe, the EU accepting our goods & food products despite them not meeting minimum EU standards etc.

[ToraToraTora]

Hymie, do you ever question your delusions?