"Bernard, I have served eleven governments in the past thirty years. If I had believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the Common Market, and passionately committed to going into it. I would have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalising steel. And of denationalising it and renationalising it. On capital punishment, I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent abolitionist. I would've been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac; but above all, I would have been a stark, staring, raving schizophrenic." - Sir Humphrey Appleby
> Britain’s MPs back powers to take control of British Steel
Dramatic intervention follows tense standoff with Chinese firm Jingye, British Steel’s owner
This reminds me of the kind of thing third world countries used to do to Britain. It’s worth learning from how Britain allowed this inversion to happen.
Those actions are usually celebrated as anti colonialist. I guess we’ll do the same now, right guys? Right?
Is it? It seems the business is idle, with the owners claiming it is not viable. The actual story doesn't seem to be here; why hasn't Jingye already offloaded the business already?