by a private equity group, it collapsed into insolvency last week. Greybull Capital blamed Brexit, among other factors, for its order book drying up. If British Steel goes under, it would put at direct risk the jobs of 5,000 people – with many thousands more working in the supply chain.
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Yay Globalization and Climate change ! Get industry to China!
I am a free market capitalist but It’s a real tragedy that governments stand idly by allowing major industries of national importance slide into oblivion. There needs to be a PPP plan to ensure certain key industries can compete globally.
You mean when it’s steel industry is destroyed by Globalist interests.
They blame it on the EU rather than the Murdoch run government?
They need jobs obviously.
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