How Sir Jim Ratcliffe has dealt a hammer blow to the SNP at Grangemouth

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56% : Some roles could be axed as early as next year, unions say, as the refinery's owner Petroineos has notified workers that maintenance operations will be scaled back.
51% : Analysts say, however, that the sheer costs make keeping Grangemouth's refinery in business unrealistic - especially with its most profitable hydrocracker unit no longer in action.
43% : Greg Newman, chief executive of Onyx Capital Group, which trades 25 billion barrels of oil a year, said: "Grangemouth is quite small and quite old by global standards.
38% : "Oil traders say Grangemouth's future has long been uncertain even before it was hit by technical problems.

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