Post #2403875
2026-05-11 10:37 UTC
Oh FFS Starmer, nationalise British Steel, seriously? It’s an industry that’s absolutely dead on its arse. Its employees need to be retrained and moved to other industries, just like the long and painful transition the miners had to go through. You might as well throw cash into the fire for all the effect it will have on reviving the industry.
And I’d put money on this “nationalised” company being almost entirely run by commercial subcontractors, all taking their slice.
Bloody ridiculous😒
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@pavsmith@theblower.au 2026-05-11 10:51
@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social it'd be a fine way to give a lot of public money to the shareholders of a basically worthless business. probably in the billions. apart from people refusing to let the past go, there's little benefit to anyone here. a lot like trying to resurrect British commercial shipbuilding. https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-the-uk-lost-its-shipbuilding?hide_intro_popup=true
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@BenCotterill@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 10:54
@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social I once crashed British Steel for about an 1/2 hour. Working in one of their server rooms. Didn’t know the sandwich van had turned up early. Ran out to grab some lunch halfway through a job.