The land of a Dominion upon which the sun never set under Queen Victoria , monarch of the United “Kingdom” (err Queendom), that dominated the world 200 years ago is now a rather reduced entity.

The last UK Steel works based on Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire, owned by a Chicom company is about to be renationalised by Starmers administration as the Chinese owners are being forced to close it down due to crippling energy costs.

The Nation that ruled the world with the Royal Navy, the purveyor of sea power that twice thwarted the Prussian led German desire for an empire dream
A navy based on Battleships made of British steel and armed with guns made from ferrous metals.

Go Woke Go Broke in indelible headlines. Successive UK governments have become addicted to imported steel and Iron and now via China maybe about to abdicate the market entirely as allowing any Iron and or steel process to close down makes for an extremely almost impossible to restart industrial entity.

The UK had Iron ores in the north of England, Germany relied on ores from Sweden delivered by sea.

Perhaps they thought they lived in a “Benign Environment”, remind me again who was the person imbued with that rather tattered suggestion?