Agenda 2019

https://www.rt.com/uk/342381-ajax-tanks-steel-crisis/ What steel crisis? 100 British ‘supertanks’ to be built with Swedish steel… in Spain The Ajax battle tank. The first 100 of 600 to be built,and made in Spain. Another aspect of this Conservative governments indifference to the effects of their policies. Add this to the scandal of the millions of tonnes of steel required for the Cross Rail link, HS2 project, new ships for the Navy and other projects, all being supplied from other countries, predominately China. The British steel industry dies due to the governments failure to allow steel to compete on a level playing field with other steel producers and in consequence thousand of wo rkers lose their jobs, thousands of families, reliant on the steel industry and associated businesses, are forced onto welfare and whole communities become no more than ghost towns. The dogma of "competition" (sprinkled with the stench of government complicity in the awarding of...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/30/britain-sacrifices-steel-industry-to-curry-favour-with-china/ Britain sacrifices steel industry to curry favour with China "The British are sacrificing an entire European industry to say thank you to China for signing up to the nuclear power project at Hinkley Point, said one official in Brussels bitterly. If we can bail out the banks with £ billions to save a few bankers and hedge fund managers, we can invest in our steel industry to save thousand of jobs and families. T housands of British jobs put at risk at Tata Steel, because this government refuses to intervene in any positive way. Thousands more jobs put at risk in associated and other business reliant on the demand generated by steel workers families. This government should stop the dumping of cheap steel (predominately by their new friends in China) onto our markets, subsidise production of steel to reduc e the costs of our steel, take Tata in...