The taxpayer burden on Sunderland would be ruinous if Nissan shuts down

They cant get new steel. But they can use recyled steel. EU is ran on recyled steel. Diffrence is. You can recyle steel using electricity. But to make new steel. You need to burn coal. You cant just heat up iron ore to turn it to steel. You need to burn.

This is fine and dandy. Until any disruption happens and then you are left standing peepee in your hand. Even EU walked back going to recyled steel only. And kept handful of blast furnaces.

the most beautiful production car in the world imo

i sat in one and the interiors were bad though. it can't be helped for a car from that era

It certainly looks British

That is an S30 and therefore 1969-78. The 80s ones were the S130/280ZX and later the Z31/300ZX.

It is rad though

It's both, planning law makes it defacto illegal to build nuclear while net zero makes it actually illegal to keep KING COAL in its rightful place.

Ackshully we have a decades-long buildup of r-slurred energy policies, net zero is the cherry on top

net zero should work. but the west was just too slow. net zero can't be buying the entire value chain from east asia. it should be making it at home.

Seething roastie steel complaining it's used goods no one wants anymore

you need existing steel to make recycled steel

The UK has been doubling down on fighting all things incel lately; tackling the "iron ore to incel steel" pipeline is a sensible next step.

its just sad because at one point they were some of the only people on earth even capable of making steel

let alone at scale

Pot calling the kettle a pajeet

You're literally the Ian Miles Cheong of rdrama

Mainland China sucks but they have Shanghai and Beijing so they will be fine. Bongland will be an authoritarian India 2.0 in like 15 more years.

but it's Rachel Reeves doomfacing as Big Ben burns

UK might be second place for millionaires leaving (10x brazil lmao) but the per capita the number is in the stratosphere compared to everyone else. They can exit tax their wealth once but at the cost of losing a millionaire's future earnings, spending, and productivity forever

100% china. UK is a slow decay

Ah, yes, Britain, the world leader in turning steel into higher value products and services. What exactly is it turning the steel into? Are stabbing services what's driving its 0.4% GDP growth?

Nah this is prehistoric thinking. Yes, the bulk of wealth creation along a production chain tends to happen at the latter stages. That was the logic that developed countries used to justify offshorting all those industries to the third world. You scrape the shit out of the earth and refine it, then we'll take it from there. Then we'll come in with our big brains and big brain machines to convert the shit into cars and phones and all that jazz. You poor people do the marginal improvements, we do the transformative, big bucks production.

But it's 2025. The third world has caught up. And after decades of scraping the shit out of the earth, refining it and often even manufacturing the final steps themselves, they have realised that maybe they don't need to check back with the big brain westerners for ideas and designs and stuff. Turns out, if you constantly work in refining and manufacturing of a product, you inevitably get some insights about how to design the product, too. And before you knew it, suddenly those backwater thirdies in China made better cars and better phones and better everything than the "first world". And places like Britain suddenly find themselves in a situation where they outsourced the early stages of their production chain, but are also no longer competitive, let alone dominant, when it comes to its latter stages. And they can't even catch up because yes, in part because of the first world living standards driving up costs, but also because they made themselves a hostage to foreign interests as they offshored those crucial, fundamental steps.

But you still have r-slurs going "durr why would you want basic industry in your country, just keep the high paying jobs far away from a factory floor to yourself lmao."

becoming a dependent and sheltered "service economy" has really worked out well for them so far

Pittsburgh ("Steel City") is a much wealthier place since it deindustialized, and started focusing on things like healthcare and technology.

Would you look at the time, it's destroy Britain o'clock

Lol which country today has govt subsidized steel of all things? China's steel sector is entirely private and they outproduce basically everyone else combined. North Korea's probably largest state directed steel manufacturer lol.

This is the first reason to love China: !ranchers