You clearly haven’t read or understood anything about this merger and have decided to make your own mind up, based on some Remainer circle jerk that this is the fault of Brexit.

Read the FT article. There are three key points for you to understand:

A. 2,000 jobs going from the group as an entity is sold;
B. The split of the 2,000 other redundancies is not certain;
C. There will be no compulsory redundancies;

The unions are happy with the deal.

Finally, you need to read about steel making and understand the reasons of why British steel manufacturing is uncompetitive. This is largely down to Tony Benn and nationalisation.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

Well researched post with actual quotes. You know this will just fall on deaf ears.

"We love you Palace, we f@cking hate Man U, We love you Palace, we hate the brighton too, We love you Palace we play in red 'n' blue, so f@ck you, and you ...

Sounds like May's team (Ollie Robbins prominent) will be pitching a Norway-style deal as the only possible post Brexit deal on Friday.

Given they know everything else will be rejected by the EU it's the only remaining possibility. Expect some fudging of language to make it clear that we'll be leaving the door open to change customs models if/when tech becomes available that enables a border in Ireland that has zero infrastructure.

But it appears this is the way the wind is blowing.

Soft Brexit ahoy! What a load of f***ing nonsense just to appease the Neanderthal and aged masses. Great work.

"We love you Palace, we f@cking hate Man U, We love you Palace, we hate the brighton too, We love you Palace we play in red 'n' blue, so f@ck you, and you ...

Your view of rejecting democracy ‘because you know best’ will only bring more Brexit and Trump votes.

Haven’t you learnt? The masses don’t want your establishment pandering bollovks anymore.

You and Cambridge are tools of the establishment. Well done.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

Don’t shoot the messenger.

Out of interest, didn’t you post on here years and years ago? Just noticed your name pop up again recently.

"We love you Palace, we f@cking hate Man U, We love you Palace, we hate the brighton too, We love you Palace we play in red 'n' blue, so f@ck you, and you ...

You have nothing to offer. Thanks for confirming this.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

At last a breakthrough in the EU negotiations.

The Spanish Foreign Minister Senor Borell has confirmed that the UK is a 'total pain in the arse'.

So the stab in the back is about to be delivered.

I suspect that history will show that it was going to happen all along and that the 52% are about to have their victory on June 23rd 2016 effectively negated. Actually leaving the UK is a worse position.

But this will not be the end. Only the beginning. And this is what those who will no doubt cheer what is about to happen and loudly proclaim 'told you so' fail to grasp.

They think that the proles will go back to their mundane little lives, being satisfied with mind numbing TV shows and generally indulging in all their unpleasant and definitely not on message Gammon lifestyles whilst we still bask in the kind and benevolent rule of the ECJ and the likes of Juncker and the real power in the EU, Martin Selmayr. He is the one who has orchestrated this with May now a full on Quisling.

And they are wrong. The people who told us that Leave never stood a chance on June 23rd or mocked the suggestion that Trump would become the US President will be the same ones who will now believe we are going to sit back and swallow this.

Nah. Ain't going to happen. If May thinks that by effectively imposing a Norway style deal on the UK that turns us into nothing more than an EU bitch boy (and lets not forget that Norway enjoy a 75% balance of payments with the EU in their favour, hence why they swallow the s*** they do) will somehow heal the divides in this country then she has never been so wrong about anything in her life.

This stab in the back happens and you ain't seen nothing yet in terms of upheaval.

We stand on the cusp. May has to be bought down before this can happen. And any Leaver in Parliament who does not do anything to make this happen is more deserving of our collective scorn than any Remainer.

May disgusts me. Would rather have Corbyn in the top job than her and I would never have thought I could think that, let alone commit to it in writing.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

LOL. Its a nice thought.

I actually suspect that the situation in the UK, and others places such as Germany and Sweden to name two, is akin to that of a peat moor on fire. No flames visible above the surface but with a fire burning away in many places.

Now depending on your political outlook you can, with some justification to brush away fears about it breaking out into something far more destructive by arguing that it all looks fine from your POV but its short term at best.

And a Brexit stabbed in the back narrative, has the potential to cause this fire to become far more visible with the real possibility of it setting fire to a whole lot more places.

Because if we are still tied to the EU then they will hammer us. They have to. I don't actually blame them for that as they are fighting for their very survival. We have to become the example of the naughty child that dared to run away but came scurrying back because it might be a bit cold and wet out there on their own for a week or two, now having to content itself with staring in through the window whilst all the good children are served up jelly and ice-cream and kept nice and warm. And the EU constantly reminding them of what happens to children who have the audacity to try to run away.

This is why a Norway style deal is the worst of all worlds. And why is MUST be opposed until we have a true Brexit.

And that is a battle that needs to be fought in almost every context of the word.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.