Tata

[Pegojack]

Done my time in British Steel , Corus then Tata to finish my career in Industy , got out at the height of the appalling issue of the Pension Plan , another story not to dwell on , Financial Advisors , vultures .

Days of following in your fathers footsteps , he worked there , a leg up to entry into that job , easy .

Driving past Aberavon RFC ground on the M4 , one eye on the speed cameras and my mph dial.
Look across at the Blasts realising that industry and Steel making are a part of my thoughts .

Port Talbot / Abbey will now become the best recyling plant in the UK , accepting worn out white goods throw outs , helping the enviroment of course , Carbon Steel is not needed any more .

Imports for rail tracks will now be the norm , jobs not needed in our manufacturing skills .

Really good luck to the satellite staff , contract cleaners , engineers , caterers and Transport drivers .

Some will applaud this news , for me a sad day .

Great post and sentiments I echo 100%. My dad, my grandfather and my uncle all worked there for donkey's years. I worked as a blastfurnace man as a summer job when a student in the seventies, then worked for BSC Tinplate in marketing in the eighties after graduating.
This will have a devastating effect on my home town Port Talbot.

 

[monmouth]

Tough one, the loss of jobs is devastating but times have to change

High quality steel is a strategic national asset and should be seen as much. Unless I've been led up the garden path arc steel is of much lower quality. Combine that with saving a whole community from destruction and compare it with chucking billions away on crap like HS2 and Covid contracts to mates and it gives some indication as to the pygmy governments that we've had. Water, Steel, Power, Oceans and rivers should be nowhere near private sector wankers, let alone foreign private sector wankers.

Oh and for the benefit of my mate on the football thread last week, this is something where my blood is up and you might say 'you need to calm down'. I'd need a reason though.

 

[waynekerr55]

High quality steel is a strategic national asset and should be seen as much. Unless I've been led up the garden path arc steel is of much lower quality. Combine that with saving a whole community from destruction and compare it with chucking billions away on crap like HS2 and Covid contracts to mates and it gives some indication as to the pygmy governments that we've had. Water, Steel, Power, Oceans and rivers should be nowhere near private sector wankers, let alone foreign private sector wankers.

Oh and for the benefit of my mate on the football thread last week, this is something where my blood is up and you might say 'you need to calm down'. I'd need a reason though.

The irony is those c***s in blue masquerade as patriots. Bastards

 

[waynekerr55]

All in aid of global warming, we got to be seen as leading the way in everything see, whilst the largest Countries in the World couldn't give a tuppenny fuk!

I notice Führage and his band of merry cûnts are jumping on this. It's all in aid of making people richer. And don't get me started on Freeports. This lot are the most corrupt cabal ever.

 

[Musiquarium]

Drakeford's Net Zero policies bring redundancies hand in hand. But he can always as usual blame Westminster.
In a few years of Net Zero we will all be sitting in the dark

 

[MajorR]

Drakeford's Net Zero policies bring redundancies hand in hand. But he can always as usual blame Westminster.
In a few years of Net Zero we will all be sitting in the dark

This is much bigger than Drakeford, this is a national issue still making is a critical national asset and part of our infrastructure.

It seems Drakeford has written to the PM asking for a meeting or a call, but Sunak is too busy!!!!

 

[JackSomething]

Drakeford's Net Zero policies bring redundancies hand in hand. But he can always as usual blame Westminster.
In a few years of Net Zero we will all be sitting in the dark

I see the blame Drakeford for everything crew are still stumbling around with their eyes closed then.

 

[waynekerr55]

Drakeford's Net Zero policies bring redundancies hand in hand. But he can always as usual blame Westminster.
In a few years of Net Zero we will all be sitting in the dark

Drakeford doesn't set UK government policy. Drakeford wasn't allowed in the 500m bail out talks.

 

[Niigata Jack]

Drakeford doesn't set UK government policy. Drakeford wasn't allowed in the 500m bail out talks.

He won't even talk to Drakeford neither will his Government, poisonous little cunt!

Its all in here

Port Talbot: Tata's Steel 2,800 job cuts are 'devastating'

A union says plans to replace Port Talbot blast furnaces will devastate local communities.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Darran]

Musiquarium hates Labour.

 

[Niigata Jack]

We gonna rely on Chinese and Indian steel both major allies of Russia, brilliant idea, fuk my eyes!

 

[Robbie]

Beeb coverage yesterday involved a Goverment Trade Minister drawing the short straw , scapegoat .

Your next gig is in Port Talbot , good luck with that , prattle on about how great the decision was made by TATA to remain in Wales , do media then get in your chauffeur driven car and get away ASAP .

Seems Sunak has turned his phone off from the awful Drakeford , says a lot for our Leaders .
Joined up thinking , work together as a UK of unity and move forward together , right .

Abbey will now become the best recyclers in Britain , any old iron into the ARC easy .

 

[Londonlisa2001]

All in aid of global warming, we got to be seen as leading the way in everything see, whilst the largest Countries in the World couldn't give a tuppenny fuk!

It has nothing to do with net zero.

Tata are closing production because it’s loss making - the net zero bit is a convenient excuse from them and a bandwagon for the right wing politicians and press in this country to jump all over As they don’t want to blame Brexit, or their obsession with non protectionist free market economics that make the few very, very rich and the majority worse off.

The U.K. government would not subsidise the losses, not would they invest in the natural gas supply or hydrogen supply to change production. They have subsidised Tata enough to keep the ’green steel’ element going.

people really need to stop believing the crap and open their eyes.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

Drakeford's Net Zero policies bring redundancies hand in hand. But he can always as usual blame Westminster.
In a few years of Net Zero we will all be sitting in the dark

Literally nothing to do with Drakeford or net zero.

All to do with profits.

 

[jack123]

Absolutely awful news, I have a feeling this will have a massive impact on Port talbot in general, going forward.

I won't lie, I got made redundant from a menial job a few year back, a place I had spent about 12 years at, and I cried my ferking eyes out, I feel so sorry for the people this has affected.