David Craig, on April 15th, 2025Tuesday-Wednesday blog
Here’s the ‘Push-me, pull-you’ bicycle:
Can anyone see that there’s a slight practical problem with this means of transport? If you can, you’re a lot smarter than 99% of our political leaders.
Our brilliant government is trying to save the Scunthorpe steelworks. Starmer’s idiots don’t want to nationalise the company. Instead they claim to be looking for a private-sector partner. But what private-sector company would invest in the uninvestible?
Here are industrial energy prices from a few countries:
Hooray, as you can see, thanks to our scientifically-challenged political elites, Britain is truly leading the world with its ludicrously high electricity prices.
Electricity makes up around a third of the cost of blast furnace steel:
So, how can a blast furnace in a country with the world’s highest energy prices compete with steel from countries with much lower energy prices?
This brings us back to the utter absurdity of our government’s (lack of) industrial policies:
If you and I can see this, why can’t the political elites?
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It’s a socialist government and it is doing exactly what they all do – destroy private businesses. Revolutions are out and welfare is used to create state dependency before the final push to full socialism. We are nearly there. We have voted for our own suicide.
The blast furnaces are in such a poor condition that no private company would invest, so why would the government nationalise it? All it means is more taxes and debt. We are told that a private Chinese company owns it, but they don’t exist. Some say the Chinese took over to run it into the ground.
Even more concerning was Richard Tice – he said we need to make the steel here to manufacture weapons.
The steel issue has exposed labour (and tories) as the inevitable consequence of their green communism agenda (which was waved through parliament without any debate or opposition). No costings or studies on its impact.
Yet running this relic as a kind of museum for old labour, to remind kids we used to be a serious country, is money better spent than billions into carbon capture or ukraine / un / who / wef / various ngos or all the other corrupt wastes of money the green commies seem to love.