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If you listened to the Honda CEO’s interview I will agree he did not blame Brexit, HOWEVER what he did say is market size is what drove their specific investment decision. In other words the UK on its own is going to be too small to bother with for many international investments. Again this points to Corbyn’s Trade Bloc as the most sensible way forward both for the UK and the EU.
I’ll certainly agree with the Honda CEO’s rationale. When I was in a position to help drive investment decisions for a multi-national, scale was everything for both potential market and plant size. Nothing else came close, or was seen as manageable.
Honda make THEIR statement at 8am today then we will know what made them decide to close Swindon and impact ~20000 people. (There is a five times multiplier in the impact on jobs in the UK).
Corruption around Planning issues is rife in the political sphere, but unfortunately very difficult to prove as many big developers/lobbyists have handy holiday homes off-shore. Just make your own way there to keep the Auditors happy then everything is on us. All a bit like the nice ‘conferences’ that many MPs attend or are booked for a paid ‘speaking’ slot.
Lets just hope that Microsoft chooses something other than memory hog Chrome!
Alan, Bios updates are often as a result of the Spectre vulnerability or similar. The keep fixing it only for more holes to appear. Each fix makes your PC run a teensy bit slower. However if you do not like it tough, or choose to use a Raspberry Pi (no predictive branching in CPU)
If Eire don’t want a hard border which is what they say and say they would never set up one and then the EU forces them to, by threat of kicking them out of the CU and SM, tell me who will appear the bully boys?
If you bother to read the Eire press or read the statements of Sinn Fein, there is only one Hard Border villain and it sure as hell isn’t the EU! Both portray a Hard Border as a betrayal of the principles of the GFA. I assure you that in Irish eyes principles are everything, and the hell with pragmatism. That is why Cromwell and King Billy are both either loved or hated. Long memories, religious bigotism and grievances are a dangerous mix.
Edge – no you are stuck with it for a couple on months until M$ replaces it with the Chrome ram glutton. the worst of Cortana can be avoided by never signing on to it. Most of this is in the security section.
I’m not sure that May isn’t a complete and utter fool and or completely incompetent. Look back at her period in the Home Office and there is not one success:
a) Windrush – what superb management. It will only cost us millions.
b) Immigration – total screw-up, especially her lack of control of illegal immigrants and decimation of the Border Force.
c) Political Crime Commissars – what a complete screw-up! We had a working system with good Police liaison and she replaced it with something where the Police can only come along on their day off.
d) Crime and policing. What a great idea to decimate the Police Force with particular emphasis on experienced Police. OK she brought in broken IT to make up, but stripped-out any support staff with technical ability. As the former Met Chief Constable said, ‘We can always throw the laptops at crooks’.
All because she was booed at a Conference.
e) Appointment of the worst Foreign secretary ever. It takes an even hand to offend both friends and foes alike!
I very much doubt if you can find anything in her career that she did really well.
It is very often some obscure button on the monitor that needs to be pushed to select the correct display mode. What does the mobo manual say about display modes?
Town/Parish Councils often use NHW Police Panel meetings to bitch about things to any District/County representatives who happen to be there. Often such subjects such as parking/congestion/school runs etc have naff all to do with the Police but it is obvious that there is no other forum they feel that they can use. In such cases I feel sorry for the Police rep who can only make supportive noises.
If the Political Crime Commissar stirs their body from their normal position of indolent sloth it gets even worse and turns into an election rally in which claims are made for things that others have initiated and done!
P&CCs must be the most stupidly expensive and totally useless idea ever!
Corbyn’s Trade Bloc is the most practical way of approaching Brexit. Frankly I cannot see why the Moggites are fighting it. As usual the devil is in the detail but it is a much better starting point than May’s half-baked approach.
I have problems in accepting that any foreigners have a right to interfere with our business. Were the boot on the other foot there would be US Congressional investigations of the sources of funding for Farage, the ERG etc. In my many years overseas I have come across many nasty cases of US interference in domestic policies of which more than half were strategically of the lunatic fringe variety, and actually in opposition to stated US State goals.
Thanks now I understand – an election speech by Borghi of the far-right League party.
I found this interesting – and one for the conspiracy theories.
“Salvini is allied with far-right groups in other EU countries and is working with U.S. President Donald Trump’s former political strategist Steve Bannon to build a network of parties opposed to closer European integration. “
Its in the Huffpost link provided by VFM.
Perhaps you can provide the link as I cannot find it. AFAIK there are two main points of contention – economic migrants/refugees (but other EU states also have similar issues), and a commercial spate with France with respect to a trans-Alpine tunnel.
So the Italians reccon they can get the EU to change its rules in a substantial way do they ? Good luck with that one, we can’t get then to move an inch. Not before the Brexit vote or after it.
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Did a Google on that, it yielded nothing!
Barnier likes Corbyn’s proposal and thinks it could form the basis of a deal. The EU already has similar Trade Blocs with Andorra and Turkey. Of course it also kills the Irish Border question stone-dead apart from the usual Animal Welfare/Bio Security problems.
Given the proven inabilities of British negotiators and our less significant trading position I fail to see why such a Bloc would not be in our best interests.
Lets just face the facts, no-one but the lunatic fringe of Brexiteers wants a No-Deal exit. The EU have all along stated that such a scenario hurts them but will definitely hurt us more. In other words they will not be cooperative on their existing trade deals and our Government recognises that in their insubstantial position paper.
US financial observers put the odds of no deal at 15%, No Brexit 30% and May’s deal 55%.
May seems to think you have to have a threat in order to negotiate. In my experience that is a really lousy strategy especially if very few think the gun will actually be used, and hurts you more!
This whole damned mess is caused by lunatic Conservatives.
Easy to find out what worries Belgians and it certainly isn’t Brexit. The main common headline across the EU is the kid’s climate change protests. Brussels Times
Associations are always worked and organised by a tiny few, whilst the rest are content to let them.
Been there, done that . It is rarely worth the effort. Too many sit back and criticise, and then fail to take up the challenge of doing the job. It is just not worth the aggro. Many Local Councillors feel the same – all responsibility but zero power. They soon come to realise that they are just taking the blame for Central Government’s many inadequacies and stealth taxes.
Let me spell it out again – at the time of our exit we will NOT be in the EU!
The Government position (see my previous link) is:
“During any implementation period, arrangements would be put in place with partner countries so that the UK is treated as an EU member state for the purposes of international agreements, including trade agreements.
In the event of a ‘no deal’, there will be no implementation period. In this scenario, the government will seek to bring into force bilateral UK-third country agreements from exit day, or as soon as possible thereafter.
These new agreements will replicate existing EU agreements and the same preferential effects with third countries as far as possible … ”
Cut through the weasel words we have nothing firm, just a lot of intentions. We would have to negotiate new agreements – not one word concerning rolling-over EU agreements because we couldn’t, unless the EU passported us into it.
If you read the previous link, you will see that the Government position is laced with warnings to exporters.
Not one bit of this is certain. However, there is nothing (except certain Brexit idiots) to stop the UK and EU forming a trade bloc with the intention of carrying forward existing deals, but that would need to be negotiated.
You cannot roll-over something that is not in existence. We would NOT have a trade deal, therefore any State could veto a new post-Brexit trade deal that gave us favourable access to their (then existing) trade deals. Under the case of a Hard Brexit I’d see no State looking favourably at helping us out.
I do not accept your attempt to blame poor negotiation on Remainers. The negotiators were all Brexiteers, and it is their fault that they achieved little. if you think that May sabotaged their efforts then you are welcome to heap scorn on her. I certainly would not defend anything she has EVER done.
From my perspective I saw the whole round of negotiations as a way of Brexiterr stalling and trying to make the clock run out so they could achieve their cretinous ideas of a Hard Brexit. If they saw May sabotaging negotiations the Right Wing of the Conservative Party had ample opportunity to try and remove her but failed.
The only gun to anyone’s head has been us threatening to blow out our own brains.
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