UK – Job losses and factory closures.

Today more UK job losses are at risk as Redcar Teesside Cast Products plant on Teesside may have to close because a consortium of International Buyers have withdrawn from a 10 year contract to buy its steel to which slab steel has fallen from over $1000 per tonne to under $300 this month. The local community is devastated after at the prospect especially after 150 years of Iron and Steel making.

 

This serves to demonstrate the effects caused by a Gov which allowed much of Industry to shift abroad in chasing profits while any remaining British Jobs experienced a dependency shift for demand from onshore to offshore for its skills and commodities needing further processing. In shipping manufacturing “risk” abroad and become accountants to it in terms of enjoying huge VAT revenue income from consumer spending on inflated prices (worth) it then allowed the finance Industry deregulation in the supply of easy loans/credit for the continuity of purchases to conveyor belts delivering new products at faster rates while building mountains of debt in equivalence to consumption rates.

 

The Gov’s problems however are not simply about UK Job losses and especially now having agreed measures to reduce climate change. As a consequence of local “burning” during the Industrial Revolution the “smog” had to be removed from the streets of Cities like <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />London and so the “combustion” process became obscured as power sockets came into focus – they now being representational of Power Stations. “Out of sight out of mind” as electrical items filled the market place increasing energy demands and profits to all involved.

 

Ignoring recent Gov moves towards solar power and wind farms etc the amount of electrical energy consumed represents only a fraction of the energy burnt as transmission lines “weep” energy etc – nothing being 100% efficient. Enlightenment as to reality is the Gov’s next task in trying to convince the Public that anything bearing a power plug is a burning device connected to a burning source and to burn creates pollution serving to degrade everyones environment. In addition to “static” combustion sites there exist mobile combustion units like cars, planes and shipping etc all consuming energy expended refined fossil fuels. On the issue of climate change Mr Blair remarked that no Gov would want to forego its economy in addressing it while Mr Brown proposed increasing taxation based upon car engine size thus driving vehicles off the road. The catch 22 here being that Public Services are too expensive having been privatized to which the Gov collects VAT as a proportion of profits and ticket sales.

Goods with plugs are about the sales of advancing technology needing profits to which the Gov consequently profits from too but if Mr Brown wishes for its continuance then all power stations must be replaced by wind mills/Solar Cells etc to his way of thinking but whatever the “source of Energy” be its usage is still representative of the “burning” process – Ovens will still create heat as will electric fires and a planet full of computers all still needing fans to cool them. Lesser fossil fuel usage in providing energy must therefore be substituted by Solar Panels which exploit the suns energy while wind mills serve to extract atmospheric energy. Are we heading towards a situation whereby the weather be modified with chemicals to create reactions thus becoming a source for energy extraction devices?. Our lives revolve around symptoms to which remedy measures are offset by new symptoms to address however it is clear that Mankind must diminish the combustion process of fossil fuels, which has been ongoing from our ancestral cave existence, but even given alternatives to it what of “end product combustors” and their inefficiencies which serve to pollute our environment?.

Is ideal exploitation about those whom do the exploiting being one step ahead?. Strange is it not how measures failed to reduce cars on UK roads which were then followed by high energy prices following which wealth removal came about as the economy faced collapse!. Being one step ahead is termed steering and perhaps Mr Blair was correct after all about matters while others attempt to prove him wrong!.