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Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?


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4 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

I watched a video of a Swedish company that machines connecting rods for engines and has sales world-wide. They source their forgings from UK, no one in Sweden can supply them.

Not to worry.

 

Swedish PEVs out number petrol autos and Sweden joins leader Norway and runner-up Iceland. Within 12 to 18 months Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands are trending the same result - out number petrol autos; Germany same by mid-2023.

 

In 2022 petrol autos held about 41% and total PEVs about 22% of UK passenger registrations. I expect EVs to surpass petrol car registrations.

 

PEVs don't use connecting rods not to mention most all of an ICE.

 

Both your Swedish and UK companies are heading towards obsolescence. So not to worry about connecting supplies.

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4 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Renewables are a source of energy independent of foreign interference, unless of course some James Bond type baddie manages to switch off the sim, the wind and the tides.

Currently, the price of electricity is the price of electricity, whether generated by renewables or fossil fuels. Perhaps If that issue can be addressed?

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5 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It is slowly sinking in, but how a leader of a major retailer couldn’t see the consequences of the madness he backed is a mystery:

 

https://www.business-live.co.uk/retail-consumer/brexit-backer-next-boss-lord-25482506

Your opinion is flawed because many of the jobs , that employed foreign workers including the 

"Next " outlets , were being paid far below the minimum wage . This also applied to agricultural workers . Thus there were no British takers for those jobs .  

I will admit there is a need for selective foreign workers as required by way of official entry and not the back door . Nurses and agricultural workers for sure . However , this month there are to date

1.9 million unemployed who should be vetted more thoroughly for alternative employment . BTW the unemployment rate is 3.5% which is the lowest since 1974 . 

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Even worse than China's ongoing domination of rare earth production is the damaging naivety of the Green activist types with their imbecile notion that wind energy and solar are magically "free" forever.

 

There is no such thing as free energy and the quicker the Green types understand that, the sooner they will have something relevant to say about energy transition instead of them endlessly repeating their slogans which amounts to nothing more substantial than "Hello clouds, hello sky!".


The UK government's absurd adoption of Green fantasy energy policies is making the country's economic problems worse than they need be while doing nothing whatever to "save the planet", as they would have us believe.

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3 hours ago, Scott Tracy said:

Currently, the price of electricity is the price of electricity, whether generated by renewables or fossil fuels. Perhaps If that issue can be addressed?

Not entirely. The price of offshore wind energy is capped. That was part of the deal with the government when leases were granted. If the price exceeds the caps, that portion is refunded.

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3 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Nevertheless this Brexit champion is now suddenly aware that Brexit is damaging his business, like it’s damaging many other UK businesses.

 

Earlier this year there was a big to-do in the UK with lorry drivers rightly complaining about the conditions they have to endure in their job. The British gvts solution to this wasn't to look for ways to improve those conditions, it was just to make it so that lots of mainly Eastern European lorry drivers can work in the UK. Part of why many are against immigration. 

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1 minute ago, Andrew65 said:

Earlier this year there was a big to-do in the UK with lorry drivers rightly complaining about the conditions they have to endure in their job. The British gvts solution to this wasn't to look for ways to improve those conditions, it was just to make it so that lots of mainly Eastern European lorry drivers can work in the UK. Part of why many are against immigration. 

Links please.

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5 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

First of all it's a plan formulated by the government.  Did it succeed? And 5000 foreign drivers is not much. And did you read this from that report:  "On top of the visa scheme, the government has also announced more funding for training and sent a desperate-looking letter pleading for ex-HGV drivers to return to their former profession."

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1 minute ago, placeholder said:

First of all it's a plan formulated by the government.  Did it succeed? And 5000 foreign drivers is not much. And did you read this from that report:  "On top of the visa scheme, the government has also announced more funding for training and sent a desperate-looking letter pleading for ex-HGV drivers to return to their former profession."

The gvt has announced more funding for training. Nothing about providing facilities (service areas) for drivers that don't cost £30 a night, or anything to make it a more attractive job to be in. I doubt very much that many drivers signed-up to return to a job where you always need to make sure you have a carrier bag and toilet paper with you, and the hours can be terrible. Treated like dirt.

Tory Britain.

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28 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Over and over again I see debunkers of wind and solar confuse fuels with infrastructure. Unlike fossil fuels, the fuels for wind and solar power are free forever and it's not magic. The infrastructure is another issue.

Generally I see supporters of wind and solar completely ignore the infrastructure issue and claim that solar and wind energy is "free" to produce, which is far from being the case.

 

The dumber activists also claim that these forms of energy provide "energy independence", ignoring the fact that the infrastructure has to be purchased from overseas sources, which at the moment, largely means China.

 

Unfortunately, the UK government seems to support these lunatic ideas, and has a child-like faith that the country can achieve 'Net Zero' with minimal cost and disruption.

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9 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Brilliant, today's problems are because of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and it is all the past stuff now biting them on the bum.  You do realise the Tories have been in power for 12 years now??  No blame there at all??  Nah, it's all because of stuff that happened before that that they haven't worked out how to fix. Right.  Bad Labour.

Economic decisions can last 5 to 10 years. All duds since Margie.

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