The nationalization is not the cunning that produces English

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The future of Britain’s final explosion furnaces in Scunthorpe Steorworks hangs on the balance. The closure will bring the production of virgin steel in English – will prepare steel from raw materials – until the end. Scunthorpe’s Chinese owners, jingye, Lincolnshire plant say that it is fine. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the response of the world – emphasize the fragility of global trade. These are the harsh winds where the remaining elements of the English steel industry are now exposed.

With the mark of the weight of the situation, the ministers say that 2,700 people are ready to nationalize Scunthorpe. Keir Starmer, forgotten, has canceled the liabilities of the previous property right and has little social money to spend.

However, the steel is a certain raw material for the industrial economy. Britain is today’s pusher for today’s green energy – wind turbines, both on land, but also seafood, electric vehicles and battery storage depends on the steel – then should produce steel.

It may still be public property – parliament has been reminded This weekend to make emergency disputes to save Scunthorpe. However, the governments on both sides of Britain were adopted for the subject in decades. Believing that privatization will give a superior economic performance is an article of faith, and not previously not related to the fact that both the goals and intention be behind state enterprises. This is a seller in Europe, which is still important in the UK.

In the 1980s and in the 1990s, the UK’s private consequence should be celebrated as a paradoxical: the external state enterprise into the English economy. French, Ireland, Denmark and Norwegian governments have wind farms. The Dutch state ruled our trains. China’s Government, through Petrochina, Grogemouth of England’s oldest oil refineries, part-trade.

Even nationalization Still, it is often seen as a socialist ambition to control the “command heights” of the economy. In 1995, the Labor Party, which is committed to the public property of Tony Blair, production, distribution and exchange tools, read the “4 paragraph” of the Constitutional Constitution, noted the end of these goals.

History reveals the pragmatic origin of a previous nationalism – governments opposed the problems that private owners could not or meet. Clement Attlee’s Labor government followed the Nationalized Coal and Railway with nationalized coal and rail on investment and modernization in the late 1940s. “Cheerful tour” trains from the new “Superpits” to giant energy stations.

Steel He was the most controversial nationalization of the Attlee Government, which was retreated after the conservative general election victory in 1951. He was very profitable and very important to escape from the steel London.

Until 1967, this has changed. Celik was later taken to social property by Harold Wilson, who needed deep reconstruction. The newly formed English steel workforce has been instructed to reduce the relative success in this difficult training. The Contracting Coal and steel districts were supported. Investment in new areas produced by vehicle is diversified labor markets.

The critics of state property claim that state management in the main national industries was an important driver of the English landing during this period and should not be repeated. State enterprises, in the middle of the 20th century, are caricatized as infrellets, centralized corporations. However, it has a public provision that includes the government’s “gold share” of the government, as well as the housing of transport and parliament. Scottish water is also suitable for investment and expenditures, in Britain and Wales compared to privatized monopolies.

Now since privatization, the steel sector performance has been deprived of the first major industrial economy without the ability to remove the UK from scratch.

Since 1988, the owners of Scunthorpe owners have a British-Dutch Corus partnership, Indian Tata Conglomate, then Greybull Capital, then a specialist investment group and finally Jingye. Harmful effects of being a global multinational peripheral plant are in full scenes in recent weeks: Note Jingye’s interest £ 500 million proposal of the government Scunthorpe uncovered.

Newfound is not the worst thing in an economy, as well as in the supply of raw materials, as well as in the supply of raw materials, as well as the nationalization.