RE: Lunatics in charge of the world economic chaos29 Mar 2026 12:07
Quite right Doozer, the EU has stole our manufacturing base via Blair, don't forget Blair shutdown more coal mines than Thatcher, cheap coal for our coking plants for our steel mills. EU then forced steel production to the old Eastern block countries because of cheap labor so undermining our steel by price. We were always in the forefront of steel making, from the 1st blast furnace at Ironbridge (Called Bedlam because of the noise) now a museum, you should visit. I worked on the old cold strip mill at Shotton, Deeside. 2 blast furnaces, now shutdown. Later i worked on the worlds 1st continuous blast furnace and coking ovens in Redcar, North Yorks, now shutdown, nearby was Skinning Grove steel plant, 6 X blast furnaces in a row, very impressive, all gone and now our illustrious leaders are going to shutdown our last raw steel making plant, this means we have to buy steel for our nuclear reactors and submarines, electric arc furnaces do not make quality steel, good for rebar.
Bad management, bad unions, bad Government, bad economists and the bad EU have destroyed our great Country. What will be next, UK and GB gone, only leaving England? Oh only the English have oil refineries, was 6 until Liebor got in and now only 4, Milipeed will want to shutdown those as well as our only 2 gold mines. DM