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"en.20141126.28.3-521-000"2
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"Mr President, unlike most British Government politicians, I actually worked for a living before I had the honour of being elected. I worked for 20 years in the steel industry in the UK. During that time I saw it change from when we had state-of-the-art service centres that were absolutely fantastic. They were well ahead of their time – it was the 1990s – and were superb. We were using mainly European steel. I was in the stainless sector. Over the period of my career in that industry, I saw it change. The stainless steel that we were using was coming from Taiwan and the Far East and the service centres – mostly the ones with technical details – moved to Germany.
What has happened is very straightforward. We have a situation in the UK where a company I know of is collecting scrap metal. It drives round in a truck and picks up the scrap metal, takes it to its furnaces and makes ingots. It then takes them back out and sells them. The same trucks go round the area and collect the scrap metal and put it on a container to China. It comes back on a container from China, comes on a truck into our area and is sold for half the price. The reason is very simple. It is not lack of skill or technical ability. It is entirely to do with the constriction of regulation and carbon emission controls which are being applied and which are stopping our people from trading fairly.
There is a very simple answer. Steel and stainless steel goes really well into a form of energy production – and it is not windmills, folks. What it is – and I will whisper it – is nuclear: nuclear power stations, a new generation of them, across the UK making cheap, effective clean energy with British and European steel producing them. What a great solution. What a boost for industry and what a way forward. We can actually compete again rather than shipping all of our industry to the Far East."@en1
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