It is steel not steal😂

Most of the steel works workforce don't live in port Talbot. It won't make much difference if it closes. Air will be cleaner for the people who actually live there.

+john rees Here is crazy suggestion why not have only TATA Steel be the authorised buyer and seller of steel in the UK and then they can buy cheap Chinese steel and subsidize UK Steel - and as the sole legal importer they can limit the influx of steel which is being dumped. All we have to do is get parliament - whoops - sorry - forgot - we need the EU to pass that law as its anti - competitive - even when they are dumping steel at sea freight only prices. Good old EU.

+William Hastings If we change the name of Port Talbot Steel Works to Port Talbot Bank PLC - Perhaps to Oxford Conservative Old Boys Bank PLC ?? maybe then they could spend 1/100 of the amount to bail out their friends in the City on people who actually work - heavy industry.

The conservative government does not care one jot about the steel industry.

Brussels would not allow it.

David n The banks control a business worth 22 Trillion pounds. There is no money or enough money in steel. The banks tell the con-Servatives what to do so steel goes down the toilet. The EU could not care less we are a cash cow for the EU. The working class are not even a small consideration.

William Hastings BSC destroyed Port Talbot (and so many other places). Nationalization failed once, best not try again.

+William Hastings Sadly, our hands are tied, even if we nationalised steel which is probably not cost effective anyway, EU directives would make it very difficult, but that aside we could do what the USA does and charge import tariffs on Chinese steel being dumped on this nation, but the EU trade agreement made with China obviously covers Britain as well so as things stand we can't do anything. I used to live in Scunthorpe a once prosperous town now looking like a ghost town in comparison to years gone by, the whole demise of the British steel industry is a tragedy of epic proportions. Meanwhile a considerable amount of EU aid (of which a substantial amount is UK money) is going to Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, The Czech Republic & Romania which is being partly redirected into their steel manufacturing plants to compete against ourselves. We need to leave the EU asap and be the masters of our own destiny and not be dictated to by an overseas political monster.

+Brythonic Man The politician at the top on left and right are wrapped up with big business as per labours position on staying in the EU. Its all dirty business and those who will suffer - again - are the poor people - the working class. The EU is a monster that we help create - normally the reaction would be - run like hell - but the political media will push aside sovereignty (freedom) as they are paid to do so - easy money.

+William Hastings Yup, the whole shebang is run by crooks. There are some good politicians around, but unless they play ball they never progress. After the USA, we are the largest donors of overseas aid, cut that by 10% and the steel industry could be rescued by subsidising a private consortium as long as they were British. A hell of a lot is wrong with this country, I drove through Chelsea, Kensington, St Johns Wood and the City with work couple of months ago visiting health food stores, many of the cars parked up were worth more than my house, yet just over a mile away driving through Tower Hamlets the place looked poverty stricken and bordering on 3rd world conditions.

+Shanjan Usman Here is crazy suggestion why not have only TATA Steel be the authorised buyer and seller of steel in the UK and then they can buy cheap Chinese steel and subsidize UK Steel - and as the sole legal importer they can limit the influx of steel which is being dumped. All we have to do is get parliament - whoops - sorry - forgot - we need the EU to pass that law as its anti - competitive - even when they are dumping steel at sea freight only prices. Good old EU.

why would we need to fight a war?