Thread 35 - Sunak, the squatter

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Old thread here
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4961707-thread-34-sunak-the-circus-is-back-in-westminster?page=40&reply=131976344

It makes total sense to close the Steel works and drastically reduce the UKs ability to produce it.

Exporting it from countries like China who are supporting Russia in Ukraine is a great shout for a time we should be looking at our military capability.

Obviously having steel made in foreign countries and exported halfway around the world is great for the environment, far better than making it in the country it will be used in.

The bonus is nearly 2000 more people to call scroungers when they lose their jobs.

What happened to the taxpayers money that has been invested in this? Whose pockets did this line?

Sunak must be feeling happy with himself and his government over such a good job, so happy he can laugh in worried people's faces as he thinks it's all funny.

Yes, that article reads a little differently to me today.

Wouldn't be at all surprised if in part the Tories have done this to do a "look at Welsh unemployment figures under Welsh Labour" come election time

Ex First Minister Carwyn Jones

Lay-offs in Port Talbot are due to Brexit and not Net Zero

“The Net Zero argument is utter nonsense”

Farage, Johnson and Gove all stated that Brexit would save UK steel pre referendum.

A prescient article from a few weeks ago

‘A golden opportunity’: Port Talbot fights to keep its steelmaking tradition alive | Steel industry | The Guardian

The opportunity for green steel is interesting. But Andrew Neil in the Mail is making it about Net Zero.

What do those experts know..

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4987818-to-find-david-lammy-rude-obnoxious-and-uninformed

I now await the 'Ange' threads.

I'm sharing this because it hasn't had anything like the attention of the PO scandal , and is even longer running . Very underpublicised that the government lost a vote on this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67615379

Since then, it has been delayed further...

Wow thanks for posting that @Piggywaspushed - hard to believe the vote was so close. The government really don't give a shit about people.

It’s dreadful and has been going on for decades. It deserves its own thread @Piggywaspushed, I knew about the scandal but it hasn’t been in the news much.

That Lammy thread is Tory Central, do those people’s radios not have an off button?

40 years. People dying weekly.

Still not paying out - & this article includes fairly strong hints that they are deliberately stalling payments.

Infected blood scandal compensation payments still not available www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67755069

Amazing that the Op on the Lammy thread just plopped and left.

LBC seems to have sufficient presenters to irritate everyone - I guess that means it's balanced!

Our local news has covered a lot of the blood scandal as boys from a local residential college we infected, it's heartbreaking and the government should be ashamed with that vote.

Maybe another ITV drama

With quotes from Hansard

It's so sad that I also thought that only an ITV drama would help.

But maybe HIV deaths and blood transfusions to teenagers aren't as palatable as nice middle class sub postmistresses with helpful Tory MPs.

Sorry , that was deeply cynical.

Shapps claims Labour control the House of Lords.

In a cabinet of tools, Shapps isn't one of the sharpest.

Poor thing. Maths isn’t his strong point, is it? It’s a bit concerning in the Minister for Defence.

Some NHS bashing.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/work/4989801-to-be-absolutely-fed-up-with-nhs-staff-off-sick

Ah that's their line - Labour Lords, enemies of the people etc etc.

But...

Ah, yes but those Tories are practically the loony Left, What with their ideas about democracy and the rule of law.

However, I don't doubt that a lot of Tory peers don't contribute to debates or bother to vote.

Maybe that is what Schapps meant.

Oh I see - wrong kind of Tory.

NHS and Benefit bashing threads come around like clockwork