Michael Sheen v Anna Soubry on jobs in steel - BBC Newsnight
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Tata Steel has confirmed it plans to cut 1,050 jobs, including 750 at Port Talbot, the UK's biggest steelworks. It has been losing £1M ($1.4M) a day - and has swallowed £3M of investment in the last four years. The reason for the difficulties are not particularly new ones: slowing demand and a seemingless endless supply of cheaper Chinese commodities - plus higher energy costs here.
Emily Maitlis spoke to actor Michael Sheen who grew up in the Port Talbot area and has made a film set there, and Industry Minister Anna Soubry.
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She talks a lot ....but says nothing..
Because she is as thick as shit.
There's a lot of stick on this report for Michael Sheen for being an actor and living in LA and campaigning for foreign children (what?!). Sheen is often a spokesperson for his home town and Country and has appeared in commercials for foreign charities also. You won't find him on a Nivea advert or an advert for Walkers crisps. He doesn't seem to care about those things. I've first hand experience of Sheen's priorities. Because his job is titled 'actor' and he's been successful, it does not mean that he is not concerned about current affairs, world hunger and certainly not the family he has living in his home town and the strong bond he has to home. Talent and money does not diminish the way a person divides their attention on important issues.
She's clueless as usual!!!!
Britain needs a steel industry...
Far less support to our steel industry than Germany or Italy, which also have much lower energy costs, and they have not imposed taxes on Chinese steel which is subsidised. The Tories have no problem with very large subsidies going to other privately owned industries such as large landowners/farmers (Tory mates), the railway systems (which were sold off to, and run by Tory mates), or the Banks (owned and run by Tory mates). The banks will never be able to pay for the damage they have done, because they simply could not pay the interest on the amounts which have had to be written off by ruined businesses and the public.
The Steel industry will not be bailed out because the fall out to thier own class will be negligible. The Tories only ever feather their own nests, and will rob the nests of others to build theirs bigger. They are "powerless to do anything" until the effluent effects the affluent, then money magically appears in abundance. This happens all the time such as was witnessed in the floods of few years ago.
If hypocrisy or lies had a smell you would not be able to enter the houses of parliament without breathing apparatus.
By the way when she said we Cant put more money in the rules wont allow it she really means the EU GANGSTERS wont allow it.
Of course she does, that is why she is stupid.
I said Tata would sell the Steel Works down the river when they took it over.
As soon as India could make what we do they get rid.
"the price of steel has halved" says the Industry Minister. Well, yes, that's because they also told us that China has been dumping cheap steel in Europe. Did she not realise this statement? If HS2 is driven forward, there is no guarantee of UK supplying the steel because the first option put forward will likely be that cheap steel from China.....Or am I missing something?
We made over 10 times more steel annually prior to entering the UK. The EU dismantled our Steel industry.
It's ok Her shares in KFC Mcdonalds and the Wimpy Burger chain will give you a few Jobs ,
the Same happened where I used to live , it's disgusting
Oh good another clueless luvvie commenting on the real world.
Soubry, hasn't got the slightest idea what she is doing, with idiot's like her in power, no wonder our country is going down the toilet. May should get rid of it, and super fast.
Robert Marsh what is May if not an idiot
Why? May is as thick as what she is.
Does it matter if he’s an actor and has a few bob in the bank? He’s using his high profile to reach people who normally give politics a wide berth.
A class act, in my opinion. If he ever swaps acting for politics I’d like to see him offered some measure of power.
Man alive , can't you tell soubry is a lawyer.
State Rules would not allow......not UK Rules. So EU OVERRULES UK help of a UK Problem.
A white Diane Abbott, says much and it means very little.
She cannot count.
yahud BBC puts an actor up to debate political issue with a MP!!
"havva " havvanna havva" 'oi oi 'oi'vey
Stop the import of steel
She said it all, we can't help the steel industry under the rules, who's rules, not ours but European rules. Another reason to get out of the union, who does not allow our people to help ourselves. Yet she promotes an undemocratic re-run of the referendum to try to keep us locked up in this economy restraining institution, while the rest of the world particularly in Asia prospers. There is only one country that prospers in the EU and that is Germany.
Well said.
i beg you not to vote for this woman .FYI.i am a .conservative voter
leexdevotee she is my mp,and utterly vile. Things she has said or more aptly shouted at me are disgusting. Just because I don't agree with you Anna doesn't mean you have to lower yourself to being foul mouthed and abusive. Horrid woman.
leexdevotee also I might add, as her constituent,she shouldn't Barr me from her email list etc just because we have differing opinions. I have always Ben civil and polite to her and she has always been uncivil, patronising and downright rude to me.
ex tv presenter yes ex , waiting for ex mp .
A star firmly aware of reality. Good on you Mr Sheen. Current crop of MPs are clueless.
We can't afford to leave Wales with nothing.
So glad she was sacked.. she's the worst MP in the UK
Could it have been anymore bias??!!
We need someone like TRUMP running the COUNTRY putting BRITAIN first the TORIES dont give a toss about the PEOPLE and jobs
Lee Andrews 😂 Sold all the coal miners, manufacturing labourers and farmers down the river. How about you get out of the bubble and look at facts. Btw he is now calling himself ‘The Chosen One’ while looking upwards and King of the Jews. Good luck with all that.
You'll never tell me that Soubry doesn't have a vested personal interest in the EU.
The name Michael Sheen comes up while Anna is talking on camera.
Cut their taxes. That would go a long way, instead of bailing out feckless companies with taxpayer money.
Excuse me.......im a politician and I will stick my finger out and point at you😊
One of the biggest reasons for the huge losses in steel and other industries is the law Blair introduced requiring at least 20% of energy come from renewable sources. Alaistair Darling, then then Chancellor, told Blair not to sign up because "it would cost us an arm and a leg". Blair ignored him and signed up. He later said he thought it meant twenty percent of electricity, not all energy, a huge difference. So now consumers, from ever household to giant users like steel mills have to pay vastly more for energy to pay for the new renewable sources that will take decades to return their investment. Companies like Tata are losing money because of Blair's vanity and stupidity. Shame Michael Sheen portrayed him in The Queen as little short of a saint instead of realising the damage he was doing to British jobs.
Emily Maitliss had obviously made up her mind on who she would support before the programme. Forget listening to the argument!
Why is Sheen getting involved when he's living the high life in LA??
+TheGava4 BECAUSE Michael Sheen's parents LIVE in Port Talbot, and he has family members who work in the steel works. Michael considers Port Talbot to be his home town, and he plays a huge role in Aberavon, with his support for restaurants etc. So he has EVERY right to express his concerns for the area.
@Scan End is a thick wanker.
I would urge anyone to read some Civitas reports.
Soubry, couldn't pour piss out a boot, even if the instructions were written on the heel !
And she thinks that Norway is in the EU. Nigel Farage had to ask her what the hell are you talking about woman. See Question time on Thursday evening. I wonder what the Norwegian people would of thought of this stupid bitch its laughable.
This discussion by Anna Soursbery is pretty much irrelevant! Chinese dumped tons of inferior steel in the international market to depress the world price of steel. Because of European Union rules, it was not possible to bail the industry out. So then the Chinese bought British Steel for a song. Wake up. Britain!
Having a job is all good but the reality is the resources to supply those works are finite. Not everything is sustainable, especially not with the unrealistic immigration levels and demand from people who want growth in the manner of keeping their seed alive. That's selfish and childishly unrealistic.
tory policies
I do admire Michael Sheen & his personal input & endeavors to save the livelihoods of Welsh Steel & the communities who depend upon being free from human tragedy . Politicians saved the Bankers are the people of Wales less significant ?. You welcome Michael Sheen on my Twitter page , You Tube , Google or M/S anytime.
good old Martin, well done mate
You are strong man 💪❤
Anna, I've got an arse and an elbow. I'm not expecting you to understand one from the other.
Interviewer very unprofessional, asks big questions and then cuts the interviewee off seconds in before they get a chance to finish their point. Barely got any answers across to us. Not cool.
She doesn't interrupt Michael once but interrupts Anna every single time she speaks. Disgraceful.
Only one C here and its neither of them
Pine Watch ohhhhhh you're ard
Worst liar in history & obvious knows nothing about politics
Soudbry always interrupts the questions.
I would not mind, if she spoke the truth. But she speaks bollocks.
What does this vile women know about the steel industry
I cant be sure but do you think she could be sober?
EDF majority share holder?
The French government.
So it s all but in name a nationalised company yet the Tories keep saying privatisation is the answer.
They mean only in the UK is nationalisation no good.
what does anna soubry have to do with this?
Well she likes to poke her nose in, the problem is she talks ballshit, and gets nothing right.
Michael is back in LA! Does this mean he's back with Sarah Silverman?
Is that Port Talbot in the backgound ;)
Will Sheen campaign now for donations to the poor of his own town instead of for foreigners ? I doubt it.
+meandmymouth He campaigns for the homeless in South Wales, including his home town, and did so without payment or indeed asking.
+Joy Bishop My apologies and good on him. I'm just a bit sensitive about our celebrities campaigning on behalf of foreign charities like the Syrian "refugees" when we know on the whole that people get the governments they deserve and we are bankrupt in terms of our national debt.
+gareth roblyn Good on him if he helps his own people but I disagree with any celebrities promoting foreign charities. "charity begins at home" and boy do we need it !
FFS!...Why is an actor being asked about this? Did he once appear in a play about a steel plant?
+jhassett2 Michael Sheen's parents LIVE in Port Talbot, and he has family members who work in the steel works. Michael considers Port Talbot to be his home town, and he plays a huge role in Aberavon, with his support for restaurants etc. So he has EVERY right to express his concerns for the area.
+port talbot why are you repeating word for word what Huw Rees is saying?
port talbot I repeat: He's a fucking actor. If he lived near a car factory would that make him an authority on global strategies at Ford?
+jhassett2 😂😂👍
+jhassett2 So, ordinary people should just shut up and let unscrupulous politicians fuck them over, because they couldn't possibly have anything to say?
If anything, it should reflect badly on Anna Soubry that "a fucking actor" is offering more substance than she is.
6:48 Micheal sheens greatest ever acting performance...perfect imitation of a stuck up prileged capitalist lackey..
Michael Sheen, pouring his heart out for his beloved Port Talbot, while being interviewed somewhere in America ! From where he is, Port Talbot is further away than Neptune:
Michael Sheen, who is home in Port Talbot on a regular basis and has poured a lot of money back into his home town and has never forgotten his roots a la Sir Anthony Hopkins. Yes he was in America for this, is he meant to put his acting career on hold forever to look after Port Talbot? No.
It would appear that Michael has set one of his trolls onto me! The problem with MS is that he is supporter of the EU, like all those other celebrity "Remoaners". The EU, due to it's state rules prevents the UK government from bailing out the nations steel industries. British steel is too expensive to sell abroad, which means it cheaper to buy cheaper dumped Chinese steel. You can't have your cake and eat it. Anna Soubry should also know better, but won't admit it. But there may be hope for British and Welsh steel, once we leave the EU and are free from EU rules, then maybe we can save our steel industries. (Which is Michael wants) It's either in the EU (which Michael wants) or leave (which Michael doesn't want). You can't have one without the other !
I am not a 'troll' on behalf of Michael Sheen, I have better things to do with my time believe it or not! Your comments are interesting but according to this www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/uk-steel-industry-welcomes-eu-11705767 they don't make much sense, unless of course that article is a complete lie.
If you think us leaving the EU is going to help the steel industry, think again. The Conservatives have been responsible for pretty much destroying our once proud industrial heritage so why would they be bothered about saving the steel industry? We will wait and see what happens as that is all we can do now but I am not foolish enough to go into Brexit thinking it is going to be all sunshine and rainbows and a happily ever after fairy story.
Millionaire actor does the ‘I’m skint and on the dole’ look.
foolish comment. Brexiters just can't help never listening or paying attention to things that have transpired. In the future the Idiom will be, 'As thick as a Brexiter'.