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You seem, quite rightly, concerned about globalisation. In the IT Industry we’ve been subject to it for decades. CSC India is now so big it can’t get the quality of employees it wants as the graduates of local Universities just get mopped up. They are not interested in anyone moving from here to there (but they did like it when they were helped to set up). A Marigold Hotel arrangement may have been quite nice as an alternative to redundancy ?
So lets impose tariffs between us and our major customer and vice versa. How is that going to do anything but hasten the need to cut costs? There are already car plants in China, if we go for the zero tariff route we open up our market to their output, and India, Mexico and Malaysia. Transporting cars around the world is already a well established model, as you’ve seen Bristol docks does well out of it.
Zero tariffs would steady the cost of the parts we import to assemble our cars (Nissan was 85%) but what about the inevitable drop in the £? And of course the finished thing will be subject to the tariffs of the country buying them. Any deals we had as part of the EU may not be there. Dr Fox hasn’t got one over the line yet, has he? And over half our output goes to the EU anyway. Lets not forget the cost of the increased paper work even if there are no taxes and potential spanners in the works of the JIT model due to customs hold ups.
According to workers at Nissan “The business in Sunderland is very modular. Everything can be put on the back of a wagon and shipped to Spain”. Having looked through the doors at Airbus it’s similar. Big sheds basically. The contents was put in them, it can be taken back out. They move it around and between sites after all.
I’m sure the Nissan decision wasn’t just down to Brexit, indeed I don’t believe they’ve claimed it is, but it must have made their decision a whole lot easier. The great blame game has just started. There’s going to be a whole lot more of this.
They need to get a deal done, although I fear it’s already too late. Businesses will be hitting the panic button and making irreversible decisions. This game of chicken must be costing the country a small fortune, how can it be in the best interests of the country as is claimed?
Yes Dyson left R&D here. I wonder if the tax breaks for R&D had anything to do with his decision?
Huge ships arrive here at Avonmouth docks loaded with cars, on average two a day. There are 500 acres of land dedicated to car storage here. Look at their website and note the ship, the Atlas Leader registered in Tokyo. 600,000 cars a year come through Bristol docks. “Cars arrive from all over the world: Toyota Hiluxes from South Africa and C-HRs from Turkey, Hondas from Mexico, MGs from China, Ssangyongs from Korea, Fiats from Italy, Jeeps from the US”.
The bulk transport costs will not outweigh the tariffs on the imported engines etc and the exported finished car. You are just framing your argument for the audience that wants to believe what you say by using what seems plausible but is just made up to fit.
What has the fact we speak English got to do with anything? My son is doing his PhD with many EU colleagues as the nature of it is such that a single University cannot do it alone. They receive EU funding to do this important research and Bath is seen as a good place to do it, but guess what? The European post grads will not be funding themselves out of their own pockets to come to Bath. The Profs are already being head hunted by American institutions as well as European (a lot of them are from the EU, not because they are cheap but because they are bloody good at what they do).
It’s just more populist nonsense.
I’ve been setting them up for the weekend. It’s hard to fault anything performance wise, for the money the build quality is above average.
I can imagine things kicking off along the lines of the poll tax riots, but that’s about it.
If we leave on No Deal the real trouble won’t be bricks through windows, it’ll be the silent majority (who could have voted either way) making their views known. For all that this is an exercise in keeping the Conservative Party together I feel it will be their undoing at the ballot box. It could so easily have been the making of them had it been handled in a truly inclusive way.
The problem with invoking the war time spirit etc. is that this isn’t a war and the EU are not our enemy. I wonder if Francois will repeat his anti German Anti Airbus stunt with the Japanese and Nissan? I mean what a bloody cheek, moving to a country that won’t be subject to restrictions and tariffs. Straight out of Somerset Capital Management’s book what, what.
Oh, I’m sorry, neither had anything to do with Brexit did they?
I have a similar problem with Team Viewer and TalkTalk DNS. Well not me personally even though I’m on TT.
A very nice laptop aimed at small business so lacking most of the crapware. It’s a better build than the domestic stuff but definitely not made to be worked on, just like Lenovo’s equivalents.
It really does motor on and the FullHD screen is very good. The keyboard / trackpad are just what you’d expect. A year ago you’d have been paying £500 for this sort of kit.
Personally I’d still buy the refurbished Elitebook G1 though.
<sigh> you are determined to pick hairs over words. You know full well what I mean.
Theresa May represents this county and that was the deal she agreed on behalf of the country. It was she who assured the EU that this was what the country wanted and they in good faith accepted that. Now we expect them to tear it all up at the last minute.
If this was the other way around your indignation would be felt from here. Well if the backstop is up for renegotiation so will be Gibraltar and lots of other areas where we negotiated what I think you would find an acceptable outcome.
The Malthouse Compromise depends on technology that just does not exist. It’s more about shoring up the Tory party than anything, so doomed to be back stabbed by one of them. It’s the ERGs way of getting a No Deal, they just have to wait a bit and keep throwing spanners in any progress.
I’ve just caught up with Mark Francois anti German anti Airbus stunt. I’d like him to come here and stand at the gates of Airbus and repeat it. Then he can go to Swindon and Oxford and do the same at the gates of BMW. I’m sure it was lapped up by his target audience though. Is this really the face of Britain we wish to project to the world? Or have we just gone past caring?
It looks like Rapid IT are refurbishers, nothing wrong with that per se, I buy lots of refurbished kit. But the i7 is 4th Generation, so i7-4xxx. The i5 is 2nd generation so i5-2xxx. IMO the 2nd generation is just too old, a Ryzen 2200G will be significantly faster. Plus the motherboard will be 6 or 7 years old, the i7 4 to 5 years old.
If you look at the PCs I’ve been building lately and use a Ryzen 2200G and Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 570 AORUS 4GB you’ll be looking at £465.
For the i7 use a Ryzen 5 1600 and an extra 8GB ram at it’s £625 with the 2TB drive as well.
I’ve got another 200GE to build. Back to the MSI mobo and H17 case, pretty much the same spec but they want a 480GB SSD.
I’ve also ordered 2 x HP 255 G7 Ryzen 3 8GB 256GB FullHD Laptops for a customer, not bad for £350
The benchmarks reckon it should be directly comparable to my Lenovo i5-6200u, we’ll see tomorrow.
That’s the thing with being an island, people can sail around it. I don’t think you’ll find that the EU will let Eire be held to ransom.
I ask again, what message is this sending to the world? Do what we say or we’ll make sure we hurt you even if it hurts us. You can only deal with us on our terms, we don’t care about yours. Existing agreements? Two fingers to them.
Lets not forget, the UK signed up to this deal with the EU after 2 years of negotiations in good faith. WE asked for the backstop in the way it has been fashioned, it was not imposed on us. And now we expect, no we demand, that this is all chucked out and renegotiated whilst blaming everyone but ourselves. Total arrogance.
All the Tories have had to do is get this over the line and they can’t. What hope do we have of negotiating these wonder deals with skills like that?
All organisations bend their rules when they want to, look what’s happening in Westminster. They are all the same all over the world.
Why are you so set on mutually assured destruction? I just don’t get it.
It seems you will pay any price to get your ideological goal, it really is cut off your nose to spite your face with the hope the nose will grow back ignoring any evidence to the contrary.
I can’t help but be reminded of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tInMR7QQUVc
Is the Total War Three Kingdoms? Predicted specs are:
OS: Win 10 64
Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz / AMD FX-8370
Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
VRAM: 4GB
System Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 60 GB Hard drive spaceIt depends on what games they want to play as to the specs (and if they have the budget for it).
But the new i5’s + Z370 mobo + RTX2060 still seem a favourite over AMD.
Blimey. That’s quite a project.
More biased media reports looking at the vested interests of the owner ?
Career ending?I doubt it for the same reason Liam Fox’s voters won’t turn on him in any numbers.
If you get what you want, that’s what will be career ending for some at the next GE when the lies are exposed. Reality will catch up with the ideology. Unfortunately the architects of the mess are in safe seats. They literally have nothing to lose, the lucrative directorships or family fortunes will still be there when they decide to pack it in.
No, I’m just counting the days until I get rid of Sky.
I think everyone has lost sight of the fact that this isn’t the final deal, it’s the deal to get us into talks about the future. I’m not surprised the Irish want a backstop given the way the likes of the ERG talk. Wasn’t it also Gove who said just vote for it and we’ll tear it up later?
We keep hearing that the Brexiteers are so tough that they’ll put up with no deal, bulldog spirit and all that. Well why won’t the EU be exactly the same for what they passionately believe in? We will both be hurt but we will be hurt more than them.
Is this the way we’re showing the world how we negotiate? Starting by refusing to pay our debts if we don’t get what we want and then threatening to trample all over peace agreements? Prepared to sacrifice our economy for some ideology. We look right Charlies and I think other nations will be rubbing their hands waiting to make the most of our desperation to get any sort of deal done. Liam Fox (remain constituency) can’t even get the existing agreements sorted in 2 years.
Chris Grayling (remain constituency) is wasting millions employing shipping companies without ships.
David Davies (remain constituency) and Dominic Raab (remain constituency) refuse to take any blame for their spell as Secretaries of State for Exiting the European Union.
Still they can be voted out at the next General Election, except they are all in safe seats with more than 50% of the vote so that won’t happen. They may be peed off that their MPs are ignoring their wishes but they’re more frightened of the bogeyman Corbyn. Ironically that may be what changes the ERG and DUP’s mind too.
No, had an update recently but the UI is the same.
Love it.
Our wedding cake was made by a friend of the m-i-l so I know how much time and care goes into things like this. We still have the sugar flowers from the very top 32 years later.
I’m sure he does know what he’s on about, but a solution is required not another blockage. If no solution can be brought about in time then time must be extended. We cannot leave with no deal, the consequences will not be good. Of course if your ideology is such that any price is worth it then you won’t agree.
If the DUP cannot be bothered to administer their own region why are they interfering in the wider picture? If it was Sinn Fein I suspect the spin would be very different, you can imagine the rabid headlines in the Mail and Express. If TM didn’t need them to cling to power I suspect we wouldn’t be here either.
We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
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