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Parliament being recalled to discuss British Steel in Scunthorpe | Politics News
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I am almost certain they nationalise it, we cannot be the only G7 Nation to not produce Virgin steel. Great news all around today jeez.
This presumably means the government are planning to nationalise it? Not sure why else the recall would be necessary
Nationalise it. We need an independent supply of steel for things like warships. It’s a national security issue. Just fucking do it.
If the Labour government doesn’t nationalise Scunthorpe, it means that Reform is outflanking the Labour Party on matters of industrial nationalisation.
I said in another thread. Up to you if you believe it or not however the BBC chief correspondent said on newscast that there is a general feeling that Starmer is only really interested in this because of the Farage photo the other week at the plant. And Labour are scared Reform are going to go for their core voter.
As if you dig a little deeper you may wonder why they did not mind the one in Scotland and Wales closing. Yet this one is a big no no. Also worth noting the world produces far more steel than is needed.
Worth noting that blast furnaces are the only ones capable of producing the finest steel. The electric powered once can not. However of it’s true that the plant is losing £700k a week. This is a big debt to take on
Nationalise it!!! The Gundam of Keir Starmer will be built!
This is the stuff I want to see from a Labour government. A good and sensible decision if it’s nationalised. Also dragging MPs in on a Saturday to do it gives them a few extra brownie points in my book. More of this please.
It’s not British owned anymore. It employs British workers, that’s it.
Shame we didn’t do the same with Port Talbot
>Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker of the House of Commons, has formerly granted a request from the government to recall parliament.
>Hoyle wrote on X: “Under Standing Order No. 13, I have granted a request from the Government to recall the House of Commons at 11am on 12 April to take forward legislative proposals to ensure the continued operation of British Steel blast furnaces is safeguarded.”
The fact they mentioned the blast furnaces is about all the confirmation we will get until tomorrow.
It should never have been privatised to begin with
This is a national security issue. And on top of that, when they make everyone in that industry redundant they just have to pay all the workers unemployment for the rest of their life anyway.
These steel works are the anchor for their area. There is nop alternative work, and all local industry exists to support the steel works or service the employees/families
You close it down you make 4k people unemployed and pay them unemployment for 30 years. and half the businesses in the area also fold because they can no longer supply the steel works and the people that live there cant afford to buy things on unemployment benefit
Now you buy steel from abroad controlled by foreign powers for 10% discount. But you have to pay 10k people unemployment for the rest of their lives (and their kids)
This is what happened in the Welsh valleys after the coal mines closed. You are looking at 4 generations on unemployment, absolute poverty and no prospects
Literally everyone will back Labour for taking it back into public ownership, it’s such an easy win for Labour ! We need it for national security at the very least
It’s a strategic industry. Nationalise it.
Be useful to nationalise the piss-taking utilities, too.
The judas priest album? I mean, it was good, but it’s not like Rob Halford should be in the lords.
Oh, the actual steel company.
‘What are they all moaning about now! Didn’t they hear we are building a MASSIVE theme park with plenty of popcorn assistant apprenticeships!’ Keir Stalin probs
I hope to god they don’t have to pay a lot for it. It will cost billions to keep it running. Give em 1 pound max.
Do the water next. Make sue the value of the company is driven to zero by regulation first.
At last, this approach should be adopted across numerous industries. Sovereignty must always be the top priority. Critical sectors such as infrastructure, the military, law enforcement, government operations, and intelligence services should be mandated to exclusively use British-made products. For instance, consider the software used by the NHS or the systems powering our nuclear submarines—both are currently developed by foreign companies. This is utterly unacceptable and should be regarded as a betrayal of national interests.
Take the competition for small modular nuclear reactors as another example. Among the contenders, there is one British company pitted against three American firms. The choice is clear: the British company should be selected. Yet, astonishingly, the government entertains foreign proposals at the decision-making table. This is nothing short of treason. Parliament is sovereign, and it must enforce the selection of British solutions in every instance, without exception.
the countrys fucking broke. starmer will want to put taxis up to pay for it. no body will by british steel its to fucking expensive to produce
Why not nationalise Grangemouth refinery in Scotland or Port Talbot steel plant in Wales?
Stop fannying around and nationalise it.
ALL national strategic infrastructure and industry should be nationalised.
In an increasingly uncertain world where allies turn into opponents and where billions of pounds are hidden away by profiteering bosses, we cannot afford to have things the nation needs to survive in the hands of foreign powers or greedy, unregulated private firms.
If your industry is “too big to fail” or always has to be bailed out by the public purse, it should be in public ownership.
I never thought I’d see the UK government actually consider doing something good for the country.
Nationalise this shit as well as all the other stuff.
Bring it back under the ownership of the people it actually matters to. Not investors.
We should be making our own shit and our shit should belong to us instead of being owned by other countries.
We really need to stop relying on other countries for making our shit. You never know when they are going to stop being your friend.
We are absolutely fucked if certain countries decide to pick a fight with us because they own or make over half our shit.
Plus this is all money going companies outside the country instead of inside.
yes please, issue a recall on parliament so we can have a new one XD
So after being warned about this by Reform MP’s months ago, along with being told shutting down our coal producing in Cumbria would be insane…..the Net Zero fanatic Ed Miliband and Labour ignored this and now we have to import coal from Japan…….
Total cretins.
Why do we need a debate when we can send Ukraine 350 m from the magic money tree.
But by something that could benefit UK people.
Let’s have a debate before we spend a few mil on saving the last of our industry’s
Will the workers get public sector level pensions? If so, hopefully this will boost employer pensions in engineering across the board from the paltry amounts they’ve fallen to on the private sector.
The more the state gets involved in direct employment in a sector, the more it boosts the baseline.
I maintain that the government should maintain a small guaranteed production of most critical goods.
Private sector is more than welcome but the free market cannot be trusted with its schizophrenic mood swings.
Steel is strategic goods. It’s used to make EG artillery. This is from chapter 1 of basic economics’ syllabus.