Regardless of the huge local implications for the closure of the Redcar Iron and Steel Plant; Steel is a strategic industry of national importance and MUST be saved unless we are to be totally dependent on other countries.
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Beverley A Scurrah
11 years ago
hard working,dedicated men doing a difficult job for world needed steel & if this closes Redcar,Middlesbrough & surrounding towns will feel the knock on effect ,closing businesses in these already precarious hard times
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Jenifer Goodchild
11 years ago
The loss of so many jobs will have a devastating effect on this small town and wider community. The U.K. needs to have some industrial self-reliance.
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Antony McManus
11 years ago
There is a bigger picture here ...
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Joanne Wells
11 years ago
It's a must
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John mcghee
11 years ago
I have see the devastation to a town when this happens. It takes a decade to put thing right. And millions of pounds.
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peter sands
11 years ago
Renationalize now.
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Shaun Stairmand
11 years ago
Spend our money in United Kingdom not every other country in the world
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Jean Addison
11 years ago
What has happened to Osbourne's promised northern power house
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James Crossley
11 years ago
The free market won't save this! The cost to the tax payer in terms of unemployment will be substantial in addition to the social cost! The Germans subsidise industry when they need to and so should we!!!
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Rachel Cook
11 years ago
Stop buying cheap steel from China and step in and save our industry.
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Richard Davies
11 years ago
Save our steel
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Ian Anderson
11 years ago
2 Brigandine Close
Seaton Carew
Hartlepool
TS25 1ES
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Kathryn Stevinson
11 years ago
Save our steel
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John Fletcher
11 years ago
There are times when government should step in to help, this is one of those times!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
The North East has lost so much industry, jobs and talented people who have had to move out the area
Please let the government recognise Redcar as a place in the UK as well as London and put some investment back
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Abigail Atha
11 years ago
Please save our steel
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Bob
11 years ago
Save our steel industry
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colette Jones
11 years ago
Maybe half of the 100million thats going to the refugees can go to his own people of teeside, after all it is tax payers money do we not have a right to say where it goes.
Regardless of the huge local implications for the closure of the Redcar Iron and Steel Plant; Steel is a strategic industry of national importance and MUST be saved unless we are to be totally dependent on other countries.
hard working,dedicated men doing a difficult job for world needed steel & if this closes Redcar,Middlesbrough & surrounding towns will feel the knock on effect ,closing businesses in these already precarious hard times
The loss of so many jobs will have a devastating effect on this small town and wider community. The U.K. needs to have some industrial self-reliance.
There is a bigger picture here ...
It's a must
I have see the devastation to a town when this happens. It takes a decade to put thing right. And millions of pounds.
Renationalize now.
Spend our money in United Kingdom not every other country in the world
What has happened to Osbourne's promised northern power house
The free market won't save this! The cost to the tax payer in terms of unemployment will be substantial in addition to the social cost! The Germans subsidise industry when they need to and so should we!!!
Stop buying cheap steel from China and step in and save our industry.
Save our steel
2 Brigandine Close Seaton Carew Hartlepool TS25 1ES
Save our steel
There are times when government should step in to help, this is one of those times!
The North East has lost so much industry, jobs and talented people who have had to move out the area Please let the government recognise Redcar as a place in the UK as well as London and put some investment back
Please save our steel
Save our steel industry
Maybe half of the 100million thats going to the refugees can go to his own people of teeside, after all it is tax payers money do we not have a right to say where it goes.
Looking out for fellow Smoggys!