Thousands of workers at Britain’s biggest steel mill, Port Talbot, are facing redundancy under a taxpayer-funded Net Zero plan. The Telegraph has the story.
Tata Steel will be given £500m of taxpayer cash to fund its switch to Net Zero at its Port Talbot steelworks.
The Indian conglomerate is expected to invest £1.25bn, including the £500m of taxpayer money, in retooling the site to produce ‘greener’ steel, which ministers said will reduce the U.K.’s entire carbon emissions by around 1.5%.
However, the new processes will require fewer jobs and Tata will consult on a restructuring that could lead to 3,000 redundancies.
The Unite union described the plans as a “disgrace” and vowed to fight them. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said it was a “devastating blow for workers at Port Talbot and the opposite of a just transition”.
Tata has been in talks with the Government for months about state aid to help switch the plant’s two coal-fired blast furnaces to electric arc versions that can run on zero-carbon electricity.
Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch said the Government “is backing our steel sector” and said the proposal would “save thousands of jobs in the long term”.
Ministers confirmed the deal had the potential to safeguard over 5,000 jobs across the U.K. Tata presently employs about 8,000 steel workers.
Ms. Badenoch said: “This is an historic package of support from the U.K. Government and will not only protect skilled jobs in Wales but also grow the U.K. economy, boost growth and help ensure a successful U.K. steel industry.”
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt added: “It is right that we are ready to step in to protect this world class manufacturing industry and to support a green growth hub in South Wales.”
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“TfL announced its ban, which includes other symbols and flags, amid concerns it could distract drivers and other road users”
Bollox!
Are rainbow flags mandatory yet.
in the past I have seen national flags on cabs.
Soon you’ll be a bigot for not wanting to date a tranny.
Teen in Germany gangraped and only one got jail time. But of you highlight the problems with ‘diversity’ in Germany, that could get you arrested!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icUW-YTgo-g
There is one obvious way to overturn this blatant act of treason – all taxi drivers call one day a week flag day and on that day they fly a flag on their taxis. And if they are fined they refuse to pay the fine.
Yes great idea. But as you and I know you would have great difficulty getting everyone in your street to agree to action never mind all of London.
But a mural for Taylor Swift is fine.
Or projecting ‘from the river to the sea’ on the Elizabeth Tower.
OK. I admit it’s not as permanent as a mural.
Pity the poor guy who marries that thing.
I’ll just leave it at this London bus then.
They voted for the muppet. Go figure?
This idea to stop people flying flags comes from the globalist mentality that countries should not be Nations anymore but just Regions of the International Community. The likes of the cretin Khan take their responsibility to get rid of National Identity seriously.
The formalisation of regions populated by tribes and factions unified into a national identity worked reasonably well in history. A down side to a national cohesion was the occasional dispute which was far larger than a tribal action.
Todays, Globalisation, multi cultural, and equality agendas will see a return of tribal, factional, and sectional grouping to re appear, has they are now doing within the west. The perfect divide and conquer strategy for todays world, giving total control and power to the elites, and chaos and conflict to everyone else.
oooooooooooooh. it appears the down ticks have taken an exception to my reference to national social collapse, by the segregation and disintegration, of social cohesion.
I would urge EVERY taxi to display the English flag from now on.
Do you sport an England flag on your work desk? Are you a political activist with Reform UK? Do you have an England flag displayed on your car? If you are then I salute you.
He’s not wrong.
Khan hates England and the English.
In London, the Great Replacement has already happened. Only 36% of the population is English. Why would anyone expect to see an English flag?
Nigel is absolutely right.
Khan hates “England & the English”.
The Scots, Welsh and Irish hate “England & the English”.
The EU hates “England & the English”.
The UN hates “England & the English”.
The entire Third World hates “England & the English”.
So why do “England & the English” keep lavishing money upon all these people, allowing them to trample “England & the English” underfoot?
Time for “England & the English” to declare themselves to be an Independent Nation.
Some Welsh people do, not myself though.
Even the mildest local Welsh Christian ladies have expressed the need for solidarity among the “Celtic peoples”, the Welsh, Scots & Irish, united together against the English “oppressors”. And yet they have never learned to speak Welsh, and have chosen to live in England for most of their lives, and hardly ever visit Wales. Just like many other “Celts” in Britain. And then there are the Third World immigrants, jostling for top government posts.
It’s astonishing how many millions of people hate England & the English, and yet choose to live in England.
The problem is that far too many English over the last thirty years have voted for English establishment parties that hate the English! Swathes of English have voted for their own replacement. Never ever vote for any establishment party!
A public forum for publicly paid officials features a string of threats against the Reform UK leader, GB News can reveal
Reform UK Party leader Nigel Farage has been the subject of violent threats on an online forum for civil servants, GB News can reveal.
Threats posted by publicly-paid officials included physical violence such as punching, assault and one commenter even implied they wished to see Mr Farage killed.
Seems to me that the vast majority of hate come from the left, from people who are often quoted as saying hate won’t win. That sentiment is only ever applied to the right.
Well done for pointing out that news. I was shocked to hear the same violent threats against Nigel even here in a local shop, where the “liberal” shopkeeper and a customer were saying that they wished the milkshake attacker had thrown rocks instead.
I hope you openly expressed your support for Farage to the shopkeeper!
Course he does. He’s a lipstick Muslim. Doing the ummahs good work.