BRTIBOX, MARY, FEDERBERG --
you should PROTEST this.
while it is understandbable, imo,. that CHINA can get its profits in agreements with britain in building nuclear power plants -- since it is china that has the needed money britain does not have -- and the engineering capacity -- that either britain has not or has lost -- simply put - china IS the nuclear power able to bring this --
it still means jobs for the construction industry in britain - even if it surely would include chinese engineers as well.
the point being -- it is a more or less 'even deal' - each country gets what it wants.
HOWEVER -- INSERTED in the deal -- that probably has nothing to dol with CHINA'S part --
is FRANCE STEEL INDUSTRY getting the lion's share of providing STEEL for the british nuclear power plant -- and AT A COST that is NOT less THAN BRITISH INDUSTRY IN STEEL WOULD price -- meaning it doesn't really even have the ''excuse' of 'cheaper steel alloy" such as CHINA for example can offer.
BUT SIMPLY PURELY FRENCH STEEL INDUSTRY getting its share of the construction market at the expense of the BRITISH steel industry and workers.
please remember -- it is NOT france that can provide both the engineering as it was out-gamed by china on that -
but most importantly -- it is NOT france that can offer MONEY INVESTMENT in building this power plants for britain. and therefore has NOTHING to offer
but supposedly ''better quality french steel"?.
what the heck? that's UNFAIR to the ordinary britsi SAY..AND I 'M NOT EVEN BRITISH!
this is literally FOOD ON THE TABLE of british families being taken by FRENCH WHO would NOT be able to enter your steel market had it NOT been enabled by the MONEY and engineering of the CHINESE -- which allowed the construction to start with as BRITAIN would need in sustainable energy.
the VERY LEAST it should have brought to britain besides nuclear power and the chea electricity it can bring to households is that british STEEL INDUSTRY and its workers SHOULDN'T be thrown out of jobs in FAVOR of the french . !
that's not fair to the british, .
YOU HAVE RAISE HELL ABOUT THIS. FOLKS.
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rt.com
‘British steelworkers betrayed’ as French firm wins contract to build nuclear submarines
Britain’s next generation of nuclear submarines will be built using French steel in a move that has outraged union chiefs, who branded the decision a “betrayal†of the UK’s struggling steel industry.
The steel is likely to be sourced from the French firm Industeel. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is expected to give the £41 billion ($52 billion) Successor program the green light on Thursday.
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The UK steel industry looks increasingly precarious in the face of cheaper Chinese alloy and favorable tax rates for European rivals.
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The Government has said time and time again that big infrastructure projects should make the most of British steel, yet here we have the Defence Secretary boasting about cutting steel that was made abroad,†Roy Rickhuss, General Secretary of steelworkers’ union Community, told the Telegraph.
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It’s a slap in the face to hard pressed British steelworkers.â€
He said the Successor program should be “
a fantastic project that will support British manufacturing†and urged the government to use UK steel at every opportunity.
Deals have not yet been finalized and BAE Systems, the arms firm which runs the Barrow-In-Furness facility where the vessels would be built, has not commented.
However, a source close to the firm told the Telegraph: “
On the pressure hull steel, we expect to buy from Industeel in France who provide the quality we need.â€
Successor is the replacement submarine to the Vanguard Class. It was rubberstamped in July when parliament voted to renew the controversial Trident nuclear weapons system.
The vote, which ratified plans underlined in the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review, authorizes the construction of four submarines to replace the aging fleet at an estimated cost of £41 billion.
