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[Mark J]

21 outraged responses to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ignorant verbal attack on a Sky reporter for being British

WWW.THEPOKE.COM

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In ‘What’s she done now?’ news, Marjorie Taylor Greene has added to the enormous stack of reasons why she’s unfit for public office. She went viral with a rude and unwarranted...

 

[Johnsond]

Town's fears over threat to steelworks' future

APPLE.NEWS

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Up to 2,700 jobs at Scunthorpe's steelworks could go following a British Steel consultation.

Meanwhile closer to home 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Madness to put the UK in a position where we cannot make steel. 

Earlier, British Steel said the blast furnaces were "no longer financially sustainable" due to tough market conditions, the imposition of tariffs and higher environmental costs. 
 

 

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[Mark J]

10 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Town's fears over threat to steelworks' future

APPLE.NEWS

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Up to 2,700 jobs at Scunthorpe's steelworks could go following a British Steel consultation.

Meanwhile closer to home 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Madness to put the UK in a position where we cannot make steel. 

Earlier, British Steel said the blast furnaces were "no longer financially sustainable" due to tough market conditions, the imposition of tariffs and higher environmental costs. 
 

 

Trump orders 25% tariffs on UK steel imports to the US, without exempt

WWW.UKSTEEL.ORG

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11th February 2025: UK Steel responds to confirmation of US tariffs on UK-made steel, which cancels previous exemptions and quotas. The US will impose a 25% tariff on UK steel from...

 

[sime42]

It's a small world eh? If only the madness going on over the pond didn't effect the rest of us.

 

Chris Mason: Trump means uncertainty is the new certainty for the UK

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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The strategy from the UK government has been to wrangle in private and say as little as possible in public, our political editor...

 

 

[Johnsond]

5 hours ago, Mark J said:

Trump orders 25% tariffs on UK steel imports to the US, without exempt

WWW.UKSTEEL.ORG

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11th February 2025: UK Steel responds to confirmation of US tariffs on UK-made steel, which cancels previous exemptions and quotas. The US will impose a 25% tariff on UK steel from...

 

That’s that post answered straight away 

We can’t even produce enough for our own needs Mark

You and the rest of the Trump crying crew should look to what’s going on in our own country first rather than worrying about the USA 

The green zealots amongst you might want to look at the steel production figures for China and India too compared to us 🤷‍♂️cost of energy maybe a clue here 🤷‍♂️

 

 

Edited March 28 by Johnsond

[Johnsond]

7 hours ago, Mark J said:

Trump orders 25% tariffs on UK steel imports to the US, without exempt

WWW.UKSTEEL.ORG

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11th February 2025: UK Steel responds to confirmation of US tariffs on UK-made steel, which cancels previous exemptions and quotas. The US will impose a 25% tariff on UK steel from...

 

We spend far more than that every year on looking after illegal immigrants  and strangely you and the ATL are silent on that subject 🤷‍♂️just saying like 

Edited March 28 by Johnsond

[Mark J]

6 hours ago, Johnsond said:

We spend far more than that every year on looking after illegal immigrants  and strangely you and the ATL are silent on that subject 🤷‍♂️just saying like 

The steel tariffs have nothing to do with immigration. 

If we export £400m of steel to USA and they are whacking on a 25% tariff, how much has Trump just cost UK steel industry? 

[Mark J]

@Johnsond Tell me why this bloke is wrong. 

[sime42]

One of the most pertinent issues right now, wealth inequality and it's rapid rise. IMO, a much bigger factor in why we're so ****************ed, rather than because of Labour/immigration/Net Zero efforts etc etc. I predict the Covid trigger word will completely prevent any meaningful discussion of it though.

 

The Scale of Economic Inequality in the UK - Equality Trust

EQUALITYTRUST.ORG.UK

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The UK has very high inequality of income compared to other developed countries. The UK's wealth inequality is much more...

 

 

[tree-fancier123]

the 'former city trader' in that clip has it wrong, inequality is part of our evolution, it exists in all societies, even the most well known attempt to stamp out inequality (communism) didn't work, because the nature of the beast meant the administrators (Lenin, Stalin et al) took much more for themselves

Surely the cost of benefits is more than the total wealth of everyone in the Sunday Times Rich list?

I'm not saying bring back the workhouse, but the handouts are excessive. Dormitories are perfectly acceptable accomodation for the unemployed and would incentivize them to take any job they could find.

 

In 2023/24 the UK government is expected to spend approximately 258.4 billion British pounds on benefits, compared with the previous year when benefit expenditure was 242.5 billion pounds

Edited March 28 by tree-fancier123