{"id":8460,"date":"2016-04-21T12:59:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T11:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2016-04-21T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T15:31:40","slug":"as-reviled-as-thatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=8460","title":{"rendered":"As reviled as Thatcher?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Desperate David Cameron is terrified that he will be as reviled as Margaret Thatcher in the history books because of the Conservative’s bungling of the steel crisis and has ordered his ministers to step in and save the industry.<\/p>\n

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The Prime Minister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reputation has been significantly damaged after the Tory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failed to realise the danger exorbitant energy costs and cheap Chinese imports posed to thousands of steel working jobs across the country.<\/p>\n

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Cameron is now panicking that the loss of one of Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most vital industries will cause as much damage as Thatcher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s infamous persecution of the coal industry in the 1980s, which devastated communities across the country and caused widespread economic deprivation that is still being felt to this day.<\/p>\n

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According to the Mirror<\/a>, Cameron has told those close to him that he is worried he will be remembered as \u00e2\u20ac\u015banother Margaret Thatcher\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 if the 40,000 jobs connected to the steel industry go.<\/p>\n

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A senior government source told the Mirror, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe PM has made clear he does not want this to be his legacy.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHe has specifically told us he does not want to go down in history as another Thatcher.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Since announcing that he will quit Downing Street before the next general election, the Prime Minister has become obsessed with how he will be remembered, with both Cameron and other senior Conservatives now \u00e2\u20ac\u015bdeeply regretting\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 that they did not do more to save the Redcar steel plant which closed last year.<\/p>\n

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The change of heart has led Cameron to order inept business secretary Sajid Javid to get his act together and save the steel industry, after the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest manufacturer, Tata, announced it would close all of its British operations.<\/p>\n

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A viable future has already been ensured for the former Tata steel works in Scunthorpe as well as a handful of other Long Products plants, after the sale of the sites \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which employ 4,400 people \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to Greybull Capital last week were facilitated with the help of government loans.<\/p>\n

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Javid has now said that the government could \u00e2\u20ac\u015bco-invest\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 with a buyer for beleaguered Tata sites across the UK including Port Talbot, Shotton, Rotherham.<\/p>\n

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In Port Talbot, Cameron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comparison to Thatcher has particular resonance because the town is close by to coal field communities still suffering after the Tories decimated the mining industry, Unite Port Talbot branch secretary Mark \u00e2\u20ac\u015bPasty\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Turner explained.<\/p>\n

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He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn the \u00e2\u20ac\u009880s Thatcher also went after the steel industry as well as the coal industry, but unlike the pits nearby the Port Talbot plant survived.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn our neighbouring coal towns and villages communities were ripped apart by Thatcher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hatred of the coal miners and their union.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn areas of the south Wales Valleys, where high unemployment and deprivation are the norm, her actions are still being felt.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf Cameron doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to be remembered in the same way Thatcher is, he needs to get his finger out and save our steel.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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To galvanise the government into action Mark is urging people to take \u00e2\u20ac\u015bsteel selfies\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 of themselves next to steel products and post them online at #steelselfie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Turner said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bPeople don’t realise how much steel is part of their everyday lives: knives, forks, spoons, cars, trains and buildings to name but a few objects.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re asking people to take selfies of steel objects, machines, signs, etc and post them online so that we can show how important having a domestic steel industry is.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere is not one sector of industry that does not use steel, from farmers to fishermen. The transport, food, clothing and manufacturing industries all depend on it.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bDo we really want Britain to fall behind other countries that have steel making capabilities and lose our control over such an important, versatile commodity?\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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