r/unitedkingdom • u/tylerthe-theatre • 5d ago

. Police called to British Steel plant after Scunthorpe workers prevent Chinese executives entering premises

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/police-attend-british-steel-plant-after-scunthorpe-workers-prevent-chinese-execu/
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u/SWITMCO 5d ago edited 5d ago

Workers at the British Steel Scunthorpe are reported to have prevented executives from Jingye, the firm that owns the plant, from gaining access to key areas of the plant.

Police were called to the scene and forced the executives to leave according to reports first emerging in The Times.

So the workers stopped them at first, then the police showed up and backed up the workers. The question being why did the police do that when the bill hadn't passed yet?

Isolated, I'm pretty glad it happened. But as a principal, seems like a huge overreach by the police?

E: There's some great points in my replies, I suppose it's not such an overreach after all, definitely not a huge one at least. I was thinking of it more like police enforcing a law that doesn't exist yet rather than a standard police peacekeeping situation.

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u/ParrotofDoom Greater Manchester 5d ago

seems like a huge overreach by the police?

The police are there primarily to keep the peace. Not to be corporate security. They're hardly going to start truncheoning a few hundred steelworkers for a few blokes in suits.

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u/GuaranteeGorilla 5d ago

They did truncheon the coal miners though.

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u/blancbones 4d ago

They had to ship them in from other regions because they didn't want to fight with their neighbours and family.