O/T DDay for Brexit..well sort of...

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Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill

Cheap labour abroad, subsidised energy, 50 people for every vacancy, it didn’t matter who was in charge tbh

Our strong point was the production of special steels and niche markets, which we sold to foreign owners.

Irony is locally steel works were bought by Indian companies, a country we sent (and still do) millions of pounds of foreign aid.

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Dont agree. Back in 2016 Farage said that if Remain win the referendum then the U.K. steel industry is dead ( or words to that effect)

Remoaners have kept the withdrawal going and hey, the knock on effects have killed British Steel

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Originally Posted by WanChaiMiller

Dont agree. Back in 2016 Farage said that if Remain win the referendum then the U.K. steel industry is dead ( or words to that effect)

Remoaners have kept the withdrawal going and hey, the knock on effects have killed British Steel

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He was right of course but in 2016 there was only 10% (if that) of the steel industry left in the UK the other 90% went to the wall exactly the way Grist suggests.

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Originally Posted by BigLadonOS

He was right of course but in 2019 there was only 10% (if that) of the steel industry left in the UK the other 90% went to the wall exactly the way Grist suggests.

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Totally agree you and Grists 'cheap labour abroad' analysis.

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Originally Posted by WanChaiMiller

Totally agree you and Grists 'cheap labour abroad' analysis.

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I would say that the selling off of the steelworks was the bigger factor to be honest with you.

Elton John and Sting come out as Remainers, add them to the list with Cameron, Osborne, Blair, Campbell, Mandelson, Heseltine, Bercow, Soubry, all the humble common folk :D

Voting in the recent EU elections in Barnsley .

Brexit Party 23.459
Labour 7.693
Liberal Democrats 4.618
Green Party 4.064
UKIP 2.899
Yorkshire Party 2.892
Cons 1.878
Change Uk 1.200
English Democrats 616

Throws the folk will vote for a monkey with a red rosette out of the window doesn't it .

That's likely to be the only warning you will get Mr Corbyn around my neck of the woods .

We have sort of got used to being crapped on by the Tories, but for the Labour Party to now crap on their traditional northern voters, well that is something new.

What Islington wants, Islington gets

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Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill

We have sort of got used to being crapped on by the Tories, but for the Labour Party to now crap on their traditional northern voters, well that is something new.

What Islington wants, Islington gets

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Islington got Lib Dems.

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Originally Posted by ragingpup

Islington got Lib Dems.

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Ok Mr Pedantic, Islington North

But like I said the ‘North” bit has been discarded.


As for the EU vote, even the locals there are baling out.

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Originally Posted by ragingpup

Islington got Lib Dems.

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Best hope a GE isn't called then raging in that case .