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    British Steel shut North East site after Richard Tice's firm threatened rent hike
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    British Steel shut North East site after Richard Tice’s firm threatened rent hike

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    3. Nice_Database_9684 on

      Just to confirm, private businesses are responsible for keeping our steel industry alive, and not the government?

    4. MisterrTickle on

      Private profits, public losses.

      Fuck knows how much profit British Steel managed to make for a succession of private owners, probably with a load of sunbsidies along the way. With successive managements asset stripping the company.

    5. zone6isgreener on

      Seems like a real stretch as the profit for the whole firm is peanuts compared to British steel’s problems so the rent on that site is going to be rather small.

    6. Astriania on

      It’s a bit of a non story – if that was even related to BS’s consolidation, it would have been one tiny factor among many.

      But there are two interesting things here. One, Tice is a money grabbing dickhead – not really a surprise but it’s nice to have it factually confirmed. And two, the Mirror is going after Reform with the same sort of smearing half-truth story that they usually use on political opponents – if anything, this is the more interesting part, as Reform would be hoping for tabloid support.

    7. Mr_XcX on

      The left trying to spin Reform the reason for British Steel firms closing and not the awful Net Zero agenda resulting in eye watering energy costs hilarious to me. Completely delusional.

    8. inevitablelizard on

      Good sign of why Reform are not going to fix anything. They’re influenced by the very same rent seeking leeching scum behaviour which has hollowed out our economy. Tice is an active part of a system doing far more damage than the net zero he loves to screech about every chance he gets.