Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eters for Monday, the 14th of April 2025.

Worst day of the week, I know, but we are here to brighten it up. I am with Bo and Stephen.

And today we're going to be talking about what's going on in Scunthorpe and then what's going on in Birmingham and why that's terrible.

And then, of course, what's going on down at the coast? Very Britain heavy episode this week today.

But we covered them a lot of American stuff and forest stuff last week.

So I think we can.

No particular announcements day.

So let's just get on because I don't know anything about Scunthorpe's steelworks.

I don't know anything about the subject.

So please enlighten me.

I'll try and do my best, and hello everybody.

It is British Heavy, it's very important.

Scumthorpe is a specific factory that's been churning out steel for 100 years and 100 and

100 and it was really one of the most important parts of British history

in terms of building our empire, and particularly in providing the right levels of steel for our

military, the Navy, but of course go beyond that, just a central infrastructure.

If you think of like Indians railway systems, a lot of that was coming from steel mills in Britain and in particular

it was coming from Scumthorpe.

The importance about Scumthorke is the last of our major steel manufacturers.

We had our Welsh steel factory was closed effectively last year whilst they're trying to

build some kind of net zero best improved recycling centered factory with hardly anybody, probably going to be used by AI to actually deliver the process.

But what we had here, it was owned by the Chinese and they bought it, they say, for about

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