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As our steel industry dies, the government buys steel from Sweden to manufacture our Tanks in Spain.

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...

Privatisation causing chaos.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ministry-of-defence-shakeup-in-chaos-over-conflicts-of-interest-8723165.html Ministry of Defence shake-up in chaos over conflicts of interest  The Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond     Another government "privatisation plan" causing chaos. This time its the turn of the £14bn defence agency that buys the armed forces’ tanks and missiles which is in crisis, due to potential "conflicts of interest". The track record of this governments obsession with privatisation is littered with mistakes, costly errors and un foreseen consequences. All this, in the pursuit of selling our assets to their friends in business and industry, in exchange for covert funding and favour in the boardroom. Thirty pieces of silver have never been so tarnished.