Saturday, April 02, 2016

Steel Pays The Price Of EU Membership.

Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield.
I CANNOT do better than quote Kate Hoey, the Labour MP, on the collapse of the steel industry: “The EU’s regulations on energy production are killing our steel industry.
“It is impossible for the UK to compete with non-EU countries like the US, where electricity costs half the price, and Norway, where energy is 25 per cent of the UK price.
“They, unlike us, are free from dogmatic, ineffective rules on energy sources.”
Unless something is done to rescue the British steel industry in days, not months, we won’t have a steel industry left. But the UK Government is not allowed to help, by order of the EU. Perhaps we shall have to send David Cameron off on another begging trip to Brussels?
Read more: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-how-robin-hood-airport-could-benefit-london-1-7829445#ixzz44eNCti1J

Elephantine Tragedies.

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