No support for steel industry

Sir, - Allow me to reply to Steven Windsor’s comments (October 29) regarding my letter focusing on the Tata Steel disaster

I would suggest to Mr Windsor that Tata Steel would be only too well aware that there would be no level playing field in tendering, given the difference in the cost of steel manufacturing in the UK and China.

In this event, I cannot believe that some discussion would not have occurred between company and government.

However, putting that to one side, would it not have been incumbent on any concerned government to foresee the likely need to support our own steel industry, to use our own workforce and our own resources and, at least, invite Tata to tender for this contract, while suggesting support by way of the possibility of subsidies.

Or does Mr Windsor believe the Tata should have been allowed to go under with no government involvement?

In any event, this is a situation which will come back to haunt us in that it is yet another nail in our manufacturing coffin.

Regarding the parallel of the costly Edinburgh tram debacle, my comments were not against the SNP but rather the short-sightedness of any government awarding contracts to foreign companies, over which we seem to have little control. loss of a young life. There is no greater freedom than the freedom to live”.

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