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**Chris** · 10-08-2019, 14:33

Steel is a strategic resource, as is the ability to produce it domestically. It isn’t especially important who owns it, as in time of deep national crisis - eg a major war - it can quickly be nationalised under emergency powers. But it can’t be nationalised if it doesn’t exist. So spending the money to keep the works going is sound strategy.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 37,028	Re: PM Boris forms a government Steel is a strategic resource, as is the ability to produce it domestically. It isn’t especially important who owns it, as in time of deep national crisis - eg a major war - it can quickly be nationalised under emergency powers. But it can’t be nationalised if it doesn’t exist. So spending the money to keep the works going is sound strategy.