Nigel Farage says there are only "three days" to save primary steel production in the UK and calls for "an immediate nationalisation" of British Steel. Report by Faragt. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I worked for 22 years in the metals industry before getting engaged in full-time politics
00:04and to watch the industrial decline, unnecessary in most cases industrial decline, is pretty
00:10depressing.
00:11These are the last two blast furnaces operating in the United Kingdom.
00:17They will both be closed by the middle of May unless immediate action is taken.
00:23We would then become the only member of the G20 that doesn't produce primary steel and
00:28we'd be doing that at a time when we're going to increase military expenditure and when the
00:33world is probably in the most uncertain place that it's been at any point during my lifetime.
00:38It would be madness for Britain not to be a producer of primary steel.
00:43There are three days left, three days left to save primary steel production in Britain.
00:51Why?
00:52If the orders don't go in for coking coal, if the orders don't go in for the iron ore pellets,
00:58then the brass furnaces will have nothing to feed them by the end of this month.
01:03Three days to get the orders in and to keep these furnaces going.
01:07And on that basis, I can't see the point of the government upping the amount of money that
01:12it might give to Gingay.
01:14I'm not sure they even want it.
01:15They seem to be quite happy to close it, quite frankly.
01:19There has to be an immediate nationalisation of this plant, an immediate nationalisation
01:25of primary steel production in Britain.
01:27It has to happen before the end of this week.
01:29The orders for those prime commodities have to go in.
01:33And then, once that's happened, Richard will lay out a bit more of a plan for how we see
01:38the future.
01:39People might agree with our plan.
01:41They might have other thoughts on how we go forwards.
01:45What is for certain is if the government don't act by Friday, that is the end of steelmaking
01:50in our country, which, frankly, in the modern world, is unthinkable.
01:54Thanks for being here, now.
02:07Thanks so much.