Ken Clarke was pronouncing on Radio 4 several days ago that in the eighties people were calling for nationalisation to save British industry. He claimed the idea that the UK will collapse unless the government steps in has been heard before and is tired old nonsense. He seemed to think that history and the magic of free […]
Posts Tagged ‘Steel’
Government intervention is vital to save steel and reverse industrial decline
Apr 15th, 2016 by Steve Laughton.
It’s the country’s deficit not the government’s that matters – devalue to re-industrialise
Apr 10th, 2016 by Bryan Gould.The imminent crisis in what is still laughingly called the British steel industry is being greeted just as other similar developments have been for decades – with consternation and anger, with concern for the implications for social cohesion in general and for workers’ families in particular, but with no recognition that this is just the […]
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Nasty signalling over Port Talbot
Apr 1st, 2016 by David Osland.There is currently no small vogue among polemicists of right-wing bent to accuse lefties of something they call ‘virtue signalling‘. So please allow me to introduce a parallel neologism. Many of the ugly responses from free market ideologues to the crisis now destroying the British steel industry are clear-cut examples of nasty signalling, designed to […]
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Rotten Tory ideology is laid bare by crisis in steel
Mar 31st, 2016 by Michael Burke.In order to defeat Osbornomics it is necessary to understand it. A central tenet is that the private sector is the key to prosperity and that therefore everything possible should be done to promote and encourage it. The state should shrink in order to release the inherent dynamism of the private sector. The argument runs […]
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On Tory indifference to steel and to human tragedy, and their hatred of solidarity
Oct 25th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.It was like the crashing of dominoes, except the toppling was done by livelihoods, supply chains, ways of life. First, SSI in Redcar announced it was going belly up. And after toing and froing with the government, once it was clear state aid wasn’t forthcoming it was as if Britain’s steel bosses huddled together and […]
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Northern Powerhouse – The gap between reality and rhetoric
Sep 29th, 2015 by Grahame Morris.There is no better illustration of the gap between the rhetoric and reality than the Government’s failure to support our steel industry. The UK steel industry is in crisis. While George Osborne was in Shanghai this week selling the UK energy sector to the Chinese Government, steel production on Teesside could come to an end […]
