Looks like Fords are winding down there powertrain centre in the Uk with Germany taking EV and they already had everything else so a lot of well paid jobs going and also a big impact in the surrounding area.
Im not socialist but I think Tata should be stripped of Thier ownership of British steel making as it's a asset of national importance esp to the armed forces.
Sunderland is only across the sea from plenty of steel suppliers and I dare say they buy there.
Watched an interesting interview with some older chap talking about authoritarianism, pointing out how the balkan states worked well as part of the soviet union but on it's breakup all the various factors in the balkans turned on each other and that because this multiculturalism that Mr Blair believed would benefit the UK has failed that to hold all the factions together will require more of a authoritarian leader and police state because society no longer just runs smoothly. So we can expect more big brother and enforcement laws to hold things together and try to prevent anymore civil unrest but it is a continous hard process as it is not natural, yes the solution would be some form of communism but also the Roman army was very multicultural but again very authoritarian with strong chain of leadership.
But it is all in aid of "net zero". Thank you Theresa May and Edward Milliband.
They all do so many U turns they end up doing doughnuts.
Agreed...why are we bothering ? It's too late to do anything about climate change. Frankly I think we are just watering into the wind. How many coal fired plants did China make so far this year ? Net zero ? A nice warm fuzzy woke feeling but will do SFA to the planet.
What about on our doorstep in Germany, they still had 50 plus in 2023 running yet us on our little islkand cannot even have one.
Interesting, who was the old guy? Not sure why you would listen to this sort of rubbish, but it's precisely how new fash brown out the horseshoe to appeal to the submissive who like the idea of strongmen leaders.
Your usual optimistic outlook
Needed to provide a bit of balanceYour usual optimistic outlook
When I worked at Ford, steel sheet for bodywork pressings was bought in either from British Steel [Redcar & Port Talbot] or from Hoogovens in Holland. The British steel was cheaper but, unless you pressed it straight away, would 'kink' in the press, rather than bending smoothly. Then the car would end up looking like it was made out of corrugated iron. The Dutch steel never gave any problems. They had to buy some British steel, to keep the government onside; but they didn't like it.
