YP Letters: Does our steel industry now qualify for overseas aid?

NO help for our steelworkers 
but plenty of money found for the likes of Robert Mugabe and the foreign aid budget.

Could the answer be for 
us to provide steel products, bridges, drilling rigs, equipment, etc. built in Britain, using 
British steel, as a form of 
foreign aid?

This would keep our plants running and at a stroke stop the corrupt use of our money by dubious regimes.

From: Simon Barber, Digley Road, Holmbridge, Holmfirth.

YOU state that pouring public funds into the steel industry would land our children with the bill. It is odd that the same concern is not expressed over the billions wasted on overseas aid.

At the very least, the hundreds of millions going to India in aid should be stopped.

From: Terry Palmer, Barnsley.

IT was sickening to hear Business Minister Anna Soubry arguing for Britain to remain in the EU, when she knows (or should know) that EU membership is closing down energy-intensive businesses all across Europe. If the above is not true why is EU aid not forthcoming to help our UK industry from total wipeout? Maybe the “please vote to keep us in” brigade can enlighten us.

From: Dr Glyn Powell, Bakersfield Drive, Kellington.

THE crisis in the steel industry, and the threat to thousands of jobs, has been met with lame indifference by the Government. This is primarily because the government has been bending over backwards to attract Chinese investment for future nuclear power stations.

Also, Government and EU “green” energy policies have forced up electricity prices, rendering British and European steel production uneconomic.

If our steel industry is allowed to collapse, Chinese and Indian manufactured steel will increase in price. Steel should be supported to avoid Chinese and Indian monopolies.

From: John Fisher, Menwith Hill, Harrogate.

THE plight of the steel industry in the UK clearly demonstrates the incompetence of the present and previous governments to protect our vital industries. The failure of this government to protect our steel industry from the dumping of cheap steel by the Chinese could only be explained by the fact that the Chinese will in future be responsible for electricity generation at a nuclear plant in the UK and other services.