Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
British Steel in admin, thousands of British jobs at risk, and what tipped them over the edge ? Well I waited last night for some explanation on BBC news of the reason, but I waited in vain, there were only vague mutterings about Brexit. Of the real reason the plug was pulled, the £120 million payment to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, which the government has lent them, and they have no hope of repaying, mention was there none. But why could not the government not just give them the money, why indeed could the government not bail them out, why not indeed just nationalise them ? Ah, said the government spokesman, we have done what we can within the law. No one asked which law he was referring to, maybe because the answer would have been, it is EU law that prevents us helping out British Steel and saving those jobs. But they don't want you to know that, if we had left the EU as we should have, those jobs could be saved, but we haven't, so let's just hope there are plenty of food banks over Scunny way. It's quite ironic isn't it, Remainers tell you we need to stay in the EU to protect jobs, tell the British Steel workers that when they ask for government help, and EU law prevents them from lifting a finger.

Thank you EU, thank you M. Barnier, thank you M. Juncker, thank you very much.
You pretty much beat me to the drop with this one sinkov. Frankly I cannot see any other way to see this. If we had left on the 29th March, British Steel could have had a cash injection, regrouped, talked some sense into Trump and got on with the job. Why can't the EU shore it up for a while? Answers on a postcard please?