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Wasn't this 14 countries and about the "lesser duty" rules? However some articles do paint different pictures with the same facts - for example https://www.theg

by Zenst 7y ago

Wasn't this 14 countries and about the "lesser duty" rules? However some articles do paint different pictures with the same facts - for example https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/01/steel-crisis-uk-accused-blocking-eu-attempts-regulate-chinese-dumping https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/01/steel-crisi... makes it sound like it was all the UK's fault based upon opinion. However, reading non-left learning media upon the same facts yields a different picture. Though I may of missed something - please could you point a source that shows that the UK was the only country to vote to keep cheap Chinese steel imports? Asking as I thought this was actually 14 countries, and about some import duty rule that covers many things above and beyond, cheap steel.

mytailorisrich 7y ago
OK, maybe the UK wasn't the only one (I edited my previous comment), but the overall point remains when I read things like the following (article you linked to) from the European Steel Association (are they left-leaning?): "The fact is that the UK has been blocking this. They are not the only member state, but they are certainly the ringleader in blocking the lifting of the lesser duty rule," Taking into account that many small EU countries don't have a steel industry so may not have a strong view beyond wanting cheap steel. Then, the results of the EU referendum are public facts. The areas mentioned heavily voted for Brexit.
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- Zenst 7y ago
  https://fullfact.org/europe/is-uk-calling-for-lower-eu-duties-chinese-steel/ https://fullfact.org/europe/is-uk-calling-for-lower-eu-dutie...
- Zenst 7y ago
  As for Brexit or whatever it is called in the annals of history. The UK has always been a divided country when it comes to the whole EU project. Which has, as voting history has shown seen many a EU initiative squashed to the UK and its political influences with other members to rally behind it. Way to look at it is, if the EU was a company and the UK was an employee. Would you want to keep that negative vibe employee who wasn't really towing the company ethos, or just let them go?

by Zenst 7y ago

mytailorisrich 7y ago

OK, maybe the UK wasn't the only one (I edited my previous comment), but the overall point remains when I read things like the following (article you linked to) from the European Steel Association (are they left-leaning?): "The fact is that the UK has been blocking this. They are not the only member state, but they are certainly the ringleader in blocking the lifting of the lesser duty rule," Taking into account that many small EU countries don't have a steel industry so may not have a strong view beyond wanting cheap steel. Then, the results of the EU referendum are public facts. The areas mentioned heavily voted for Brexit.

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Zenst 7y ago
https://fullfact.org/europe/is-uk-calling-for-lower-eu-duties-chinese-steel/ https://fullfact.org/europe/is-uk-calling-for-lower-eu-dutie...
Zenst 7y ago
As for Brexit or whatever it is called in the annals of history. The UK has always been a divided country when it comes to the whole EU project. Which has, as voting history has shown seen many a EU initiative squashed to the UK and its political influences with other members to rally behind it. Way to look at it is, if the EU was a company and the UK was an employee. Would you want to keep that negative vibe employee who wasn't really towing the company ethos, or just let them go?