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UK government go "brrrrr" to bail out failing, Chinese owned, massively polluting steel co.
Massively failing, hugely polluting UK water companies, pumping shit into our waterways, UK government go "....... Let the market sort it out".
The entire system is fucked.
The current situation is slightly more nuanced than that. The Chinese owners want to shut down the blast furnaces at the site, possibly as early as next week. Once the furnaces are shut down they cannot be restarted, so that would be the end of the site as a steel production factory, and it's the only one the UK has that can process iron ore, so it's considered critical.
The government's long term plan is to take the site into public ownership, then try to find private sector interest to take on part of it, but short term just to keep it alive long enough to be able to keep it running, with the happy side effect that a large number of jobs are not lost.
None of this is to say the situation with with the water companies is acceptable. Frankly they should already be publicly owned.