Not_Fred_Honest
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Scunthorpe steel works been nationalized in all but name.
Personally I'm invested in this, my family were involved at Corby and a few took jobs at Scunthorpe after they closed it down. Many years of my childhood were spent on picket lines with my Dad and uncles. If they hadn't closed the steel works at Corby, I would have follow in their footsteps like so many others family members.
The real question is why now after steel production been brought to its knees over the last 30?
The government arguing "defense", without a steel manufacturing base we cant build weapon's. There only one real problem with his argument, we have no air defense systems.
Lets just think about this, we have 14 rapiers and few Sky Sabre's to cover the whole of the UK. Its a bit worrying. Now you'd think living on a island with a land mass of 94,354 square miles we'd have a few more. I feel 20 jets could wipe out our air defense in 60 mins.
But what about the air force?
They wont last long.
The government argument "defense" is pointless. We have no real defense in the UK and government's not investing in air defense's systems. The steel works at Scunthorpe could be bombed out of action in a few hours. Its right on the coast !!
Before we start throwing billons at saving production plants, lets spend more on saving what we have now.
Now I'm off to find an second hand Anderson shelter on ebay, I feeling I'm going to need one
Personally I'm invested in this, my family were involved at Corby and a few took jobs at Scunthorpe after they closed it down. Many years of my childhood were spent on picket lines with my Dad and uncles. If they hadn't closed the steel works at Corby, I would have follow in their footsteps like so many others family members.
The real question is why now after steel production been brought to its knees over the last 30?
The government arguing "defense", without a steel manufacturing base we cant build weapon's. There only one real problem with his argument, we have no air defense systems.
Lets just think about this, we have 14 rapiers and few Sky Sabre's to cover the whole of the UK. Its a bit worrying. Now you'd think living on a island with a land mass of 94,354 square miles we'd have a few more. I feel 20 jets could wipe out our air defense in 60 mins.
But what about the air force?
They wont last long.
The government argument "defense" is pointless. We have no real defense in the UK and government's not investing in air defense's systems. The steel works at Scunthorpe could be bombed out of action in a few hours. Its right on the coast !!
Before we start throwing billons at saving production plants, lets spend more on saving what we have now.
Now I'm off to find an second hand Anderson shelter on ebay, I feeling I'm going to need one
