Question Time Back on! Now. Lovely.

[Northern Munkee]

My home town, Middlesbrough, try to get passed the accent.

Could be interesting Labour heart land, on the day Corus is supposed to be closing.

Alot of disaffected Labour voters. Good ol' northern honesty, unless there's too many students in the audience.

[Mojocvh]

Cheers NM off to watch

Mo.

[Northern Munkee]

Better than Piers Morgan...

[Dr Phibes]

Hattersley, what a spluttering old fk faced , saying Brown will win again and shaking his head that he was not the cause of the fked economy.

In Shock people from the north clapping a Tory

[AndrewW-G]

Now thats an impressive moustache!

[Dr Phibes]

That be a proper northern moustache

[loafer123]

I wonder if he'll get out alive...

[5unny]

If the plant is so profitable, which the UNION chap is saying, then why are TATA closing it?

[Northern Munkee]

Disaffected voters or what?

[AndrewW-G]

5unny said:

If the plant is so profitable, which the UNION chap is saying, then why are TATA closing it?

As people on TV have already said, they have two plants opening in India and millions in EU funding for the dutch plant..................... UK plant is far easier to close and doesnt form part of their long term plans

ETA

Somebody in another thread came up with an interesting point, due to carbon trading thingamy points, they will also stand to make millions simply by manipulating the global warming loony schemes

Edited by AndrewW-G on Thursday 18th February 23:08

[Halb]

5unny said:

If the plant is so profitable, which the UNION chap is saying, then why are TATA closing it?

They can make lots more money from cheaper plants...it's all aboot maximising profits...sad.


Is the moustache man a PHer? That's the first thing I thought...bet he drives a Jaaaag.

[Dr Phibes]

Halb said:

5unny said:

If the plant is so profitable, which the UNION chap is saying, then why are TATA closing it?

They can make lots more money from cheaper plants...it's all aboot maximising profits...sad.


Is the moustache man a PHer? That's the first thing I thought...bet he drives a Jaaaag.

a 2ltr X-type, can just see him outside local chippy with the windows down spinning his wheels.

[loafer123]

That Rory Stewart's an impressive chap, notwithstanding his affinity with walking.

[Northern Munkee]

AndrewW-G said:

5unny said:

If the plant is so profitable, which the UNION chap is saying, then why are TATA closing it?

As people on TV have already said, they have two plants opening in India and millions in EU funding for the dutch plant..................... UK plant is far easier to close and doesnt form part of their long term plans

Yes thats the suggestion it's not like this furnace can be just switched back on, once its off, it is essentially destroyed, and when the upturn comes and this plant does make special high quality steel, not all steel is the same (even if sold to someone else) is just gone. And only we let foreigners buy it up, and as I understand it Tata went around the plant and tapped the expertise to improve their steel to the same quality (you know how the tories said the future of our manufacturing was niche high value, specialty products), if its not steel it's other brands, and our manufacturing is offshored, the French, the Germans, the US wouldn't allow this, even if it were legal, they would find away of not selling to johnny foreigner in the first place, and would perhaps still have some loyalty, national interest (even if only privately, nudge-nudge) ahead of just short term profit.

[TheD]

The lib dem woman looks like she has had a head transplant. Check out the cut round the neck.....Frankiestone

[Dr Phibes]

Halb said:

5unny said:

If the plant is so profitable, which the UNION chap is saying, then why are TATA closing it?

They can make lots more money from cheaper plants...it's all aboot maximising profits...sad.


Is the moustache man a PHer? That's the first thing I thought...bet he drives a Jaaaag.

a 2ltr X-type, can just see him outside local chippy with the windows down spinning his wheels.

[Mclovin]

brown not the cause lol, the guy sowed the seeds that will result in soverign default...thousands of rules, regulations, taxes, bureacracy, laws all designed to destroy the country not to mention signing away our rights in europe without battering an eyelid lol....

[macp]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

loafer123 said:

That Rory Stewart's an impressive chap, notwithstanding his affinity with walking.

Indeed. Just WIki'd him.

Some substance there : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Stewart

Impressive I never knew anything about the guy.He comes across well.

[Mrs Trackside]

Why is Tom Conti there? He's a blithering idiot who doesn't think beyond the immediate picture.

[macp]

Nicholas Winterton massive fail and something the tories desperately need to distance themselves from.