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29-09-2015, 03:45 PM
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Not far from you in Hitchin and you are right no brickyards now, I can remember lorry after lorry coming through heading for Stevenage and the lorries were all made here as well!
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29-09-2015, 07:03 PM
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Corby,Sheffield and now Redcar. Steel gone. They say we need more houses-well I grew up in the area of the brickyards in Bedfordshire. All gone now so where do the bricks come from??
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29-09-2015, 09:15 PM
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The Redcar plant is not even owned by British company .
It has been owned for some years by a Thai company
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29-09-2015, 11:28 PM
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The Redcar plant is not even owned by British company .
It has been owned for some years by a Thai company
It started out as a private company - Dorman Long in 1917. It was absorbed into British Steel during nationalisation in 1967. It was privatised by Thatcher in 1988 as British Steel PLC and in 1999 merged with a Dutch firm to form Corus Group. In 2007, Corus was bought by the Indian company Tata. In turn, Tata sold it to SSI in 2011.
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30-09-2015, 07:06 AM
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It started out as a private company - Dorman Long in 1917. It was absorbed into British Steel during nationalisation in 1967. It was privatised by Thatcher in 1988 as British Steel PLC and in 1999 merged with a Dutch firm to form Corus Group. In 2007, Corus was bought by the Indian company Tata. In turn, Tata sold it to SSI in 2011.

So, much as I anticipated, it was that evil witch Thatcher's fault for privatising it in the first place!!!
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30-09-2015, 08:09 AM
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So, much as I anticipated, it was that evil witch Thatcher's fault for privatising it in the first place!!!
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It was losing vast amounts of money, paid for out of taxation, yours and mine, when it was privatised.

There is very little chance of our heavy industries surviving, due, to a large extent to the Greens and other Eco Warrior types who have managed to get ridiculous energy and air pollution controls on our basic industries, making them uncompetitive.

You cannot save the planet by doing this, all you do is shift carbon dioxide production from the UK to China whilst at the same time losing vast numbers of UK jobs in the process.
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30-09-2015, 08:25 AM
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They are not the only ones to loose jobs. Even my own job with BT has now gone so glad I left when I did. It really does not make any difference if thousands or just one job is lost, it is the dependants that suffer
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30-09-2015, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by swimfeeders ->
There is very little chance of our heavy industries surviving, due, to a large extent to the Greens and other Eco Warrior types who have managed to get ridiculous energy and air pollution controls on our basic industries, making them uncompetitive.

You cannot save the planet by doing this, all you do is shift carbon dioxide production from the UK to China whilst at the same time losing vast numbers of UK jobs in the process.
This is so true. We still have large quantities of coal, gas and oil beneath our feet but the global warming scam makes it politically impossible to access it.
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01-10-2015, 07:46 AM
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Does this make sense? http://www.bmmagazine.co.uk/newswire...m-uk-taxpayer/
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If the government makes 80 million quid available...why don't they just divide it by 17000 and give all the workforce a payment ?
Anyone know what that would be for each of the 17000 workforce ?
 
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