@mozz@mbin.grits.dev Deindustrialization in progress.
UK is no longer able to make steel
Good thing steel isn't an input into weapons and munitions production, Clown Island.
Why produce weapons and munitions yourself when you can just buy them from the US and enrich their military industrial complex? In fact from an American perspective, why does Europe need its own weapons industry at all? Better that they become fully dependent on the US, that way they are easier to control.
Britain when no child labour
Reject steel, return to iron, embrace Anglo-Saxon tradition. Watch out Russia, the brits have 7th century military technology and they're not afraid to use it.
If this decade ends with Brits making pig iron in makeshift furnaces in their back yards, I will take back every negative thing I've said about Sunak
embrace Anglo-Saxon tradition
They should set "The Ruin" to music and make it the official UK anthem.
What level of deindustrialization is it when you can't make fucking steel anymore?
welcome to the final form of financial capitalism 🤣
7th century I believe
Earliest known steel artifacts are from 1800 BCE, earliest discoverings of reliable steel production are from XIII century BCE Anatolia, X century BCE Egyptians discovered tempering which allowed for high-carbon steel, and V-III century BCE south India produced high quality wootz steel.
So steel was actually produced as early as iron, but iron remained easier to produce for most of that time.
As wise as the Brits pre-WWII, who sent all their scrap metal to the Nazis. (Thanks to @AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml for the continuous history lessons!)
Will financial services mostly remain unaffected? OK no problem then.
Neoliberals will soon find out that it may be easy to print money but not actual produced goods.
Indeed, western politicians appear to be utterly shocked by the fact that they can't just wish factories and trained workers into existence from thin air.
:stick-in-bike-wheel
Aims gun at own foot: "Okay, we've got target lock... preparing to fire..."
Technologies lost, Grimdarkification continues apace
USSR was the real Age of Technology
everybody gansta until no gas
Tata Steel
THANK YOU, DO NOT COME AGAIN
nothin' personnel tho (literally you ain't got no personnel)
It may be the result of capitalism, but there's something incredibly right about Tata owning (and discontinuing) modern Britain's steel production. Here's hoping that in due time (and due collapse) Indian corporations come to own that whole wretched island, it would be only fitting and even then would pale in comparison to reparations owed.
the smelting process was just a bit too spicy
Capital doesn't see borders.
Tata has also bought Jaguar which I think is/was a British car company. Very weird trend IMO.
So this is why they're making their warships out of paper mache lately?
https://nitter.net/MyLordBebo/status/1748460625490002227#m
This is the result of two British ships crashing into each other today
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