Steel Supply and Prices

Pennine Ploughing

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Mixed Farmer
not just that, but i believe govt should have their own policy of buying british made products if at all possible first in the public sector, ie NHS, police, councils, army ? all we see round here is police driving bmws, mercedes ambulances, mercedes bin lorries great for the germans ?
The public bought either a better product or cheaper from abroad, the government is just following suit, all in order to get a better or cheaper product,
 

BrianV

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Dartmoor
not just that, but i believe govt should have their own policy of buying british made products if at all possible first in the public sector, ie NHS, police, councils, army ? all we see round here is police driving bmws, mercedes ambulances, mercedes bin lorries great for the germans ?
For as long as I can remember our pee poor politicians of both parties have used the EU as an excuse for their failures to keep manufacturing in this country, you here them parrot "can't do this because of EU rules"whilst the rest of the EU carried merrily along laughing at our feebleness.
Now we can see where the blame truly lies & it's not a pretty sight!

As you can imagine I did not write "pee"
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
not just that, but i believe govt should have their own policy of buying british made products if at all possible first in the public sector, ie NHS, police, councils, army ? all we see round here is police driving bmws, mercedes ambulances, mercedes bin lorries great for the germans ?

We were always told that EU competition rules meant that govt departments couldn't have a policy of sourcing UK products (despite that happening in most other EU countries). Our government seem strangely slow to implement such a policy, now that we're in the brave new world...
 

bluebell

Member
so should all the big inferstructure builds such as h2 be built with british steel, what about the skills shortage ? why has our country become so dependent on foreign workers to do so many jobs, many of these jobs are well paid? there should be no reason to have youth unemployment to the levels thay are ? match the young people coming out of education to the jobs, skills this nation needs, or is that to simple to ask ?
 

bluebell

Member
Thats right at one time the excuse made was its the EUs rules and regulations, and as a member we have to obey it or be fined or penalised, well well thats one of the major reasons i for one voted out ? to now put our countries interests and people first for once ?
 

Hilly

Member
so should all the big inferstructure builds such as h2 be built with british steel, what about the skills shortage ? why has our country become so dependent on foreign workers to do so many jobs, many of these jobs are well paid? there should be no reason to have youth unemployment to the levels thay are ? match the young people coming out of education to the jobs, skills this nation needs, or is that to simple to ask ?
Yes they should be built out of our own steel , education system is to blame university for all created a generation think they deserve better jobs than manual Labour. Imo uni should only be for the top 10% of students .
 

hutchy143211

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Location
E. Yorkshire
If my understanding is correct some of the shortage issues in the West are due to China buying up large quantities of scrap steel as they gear up for a big infrastructure building program to reboot their economy due to their "slump" to 6% growth pre covid and as part of the covid economic recovery. I think its not just a case of lack of primary production in Europe and the UK but more their inability to get the raw materials due to this shortage. Most of the UK production isn't blast furnace orientated as it used to be so there is a much heavier dependency on scrap steel entering the production cycle.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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