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Good Morning Thread

muttley said:
Same here. I have a couple of inside tracks to some families moving to the area where I live. A lot are bringing wealth above the UK average with them and as you say, willing to work. I actually saw one them this morning, working on the shop floor in Morrisons.
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They're a peaceful living democratic people. They're also hard working & incredibly loyal. I'd welcome them to the country with open arms.
 
steveperryman said:
My one & only concern is with such a large influx of refugees we're going to be at risk of espionage. The Chinese will in all likelihood try to take full advantage of it.
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Don't think "we're going to be at risk" is correct Steve, more like, we already are, the peops regards espionage are already ere mate!
 
Great story on BBC website today. The absolute definition of unlucky.

A thief walks into a restaurant in Barcelona that happened to have a load of Met Police away on a stag do. Gets chased by the off duty cops who catch him and bring him back to the restaurant to get arrested by the local police.

www.bbc.co.uk

Met Police officers stop suspected thief while on stag do

The Met officers say they gave chase after a man tried to steal items from a restaurant in Barcelona.
www.bbc.co.uk

:LOL:
 
steveperryman said:
I thin

We have more chance toppling Putin than we do the Chinese regime, as far fetched as that would seem at the minute.
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We have made Putin stronger, their economy is booming and the EU is at a crossroads as Germany staggers under its ridiculous anti-nuclear energy policy.

Abundant affordable energy has a direct link to the standard of living of any country. Germany is in real economic trouble and the labour problems are just beginning there. As energy and materials (derived from energy) become more expensive there is only one area to save money in manufacturing. Labour.
 
Spursex said:
It's all being driven by the race to net zero...europe is warming at twice the rate of the other continents, so 'net zero' will, the scientists think slow it down...

Governments, have put the costs of dealing with environmental change at sums that are far beyond that which most countries can afford..

So they believe the quicker they get oil and diesel guzzling motors consigned to history, the more chance they will have of slowing weather catastrophes that keep hitting us out of the blue..

It's all the fault of the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate. according to Auto Trader 77 per cent of new electric vehicles are now going to be advertised at a discount.

This isn’t just because electric battery technology has suddenly undergone a huge advance (solid state sodium batteries are appearing which offer up to 1000km) but rather is sheer desperation.

Since January this year, major car manufacturers have been under an obligation to ensure that at least 22 per cent of the new vehicles they sell are pure electric. If they fail, then for every non-electric car they sell they could be fined £15,000. The 22 per cent proportion will then rise every year until it reaches 80 per cent in 2030. The trouble is, so far in 2024 only around 15 per cent of cars sold in Britain have been pure electric vehicles.(We lag most of the rest of Europe).

If motorists just don’t want to buy electric vehicles, what are manufacturers to do? They can’t carry on cutting the prices of electric cars to the point they are selling them at a massive loss, and nor will they be able to afford to pay penalties of £15,000 for every petrol or diesel car they sell over the limit.

Buyers of luxury cars might not mind paying that kind of surcharge, but motorists who want mass market hatchbacks certainly will. The only real option car-makers have is to stop us buying petrol or diesel cars by withdrawing them from the market – as Ford has already done with the Fiesta.

What’s wrong about the ZEV is that motorists have shown themselves to be happy buying hybrids. They don’t mind electrical traction; it is just that they don’t want to suffer the hassle of relying on public charging points or risk being stranded.

Hybrids should have been the way to clean-up the car industry, allowing motorists steadily to move in the direction of electric vehicles. but the EU and the British Government didn't see it as enough.

That would have allowed the recharging infrastructure to be built up over time – and who knows, maybe there would have come a point when EVs became good enough that people no longer saw the need to have an engine on board as well as batteries. But the government undermined the whole process by announcing that hybrids, too, will be banned, and trying to force us to leap to full electric vehicles in one go.

That's why, unless the EU and this Government do a complete about-face - Electric cars, will rule.
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Electric cars are anything but net zero.
 
80deg16minW said:
We have made Putin stronger, their economy is booming and the EU is at a crossroads as Germany staggers under its ridiculous anti-nuclear energy policy.

Abundant affordable energy has a direct link to the standard of living of any country. Germany is in real economic trouble and the labour problems are just beginning there. As energy and materials (derived from energy) become more expensive there is only one area to save money in manufacturing. Labour.
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Well that's what they get for jumping in bed with the devil. They only have themselves to blame for their current predicament.
 
80deg16minW said:
They need help or it's going to get worse and spread..
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Yeah the Baltic States were fully reliant on Russian gas as well. They've since outlawed it although obviously Germany's somewhat different, what with their large manufacturing sector. Aren't they receiving gas supplies from neighbouring Nato countries to make up for the shortfall though?
 
80deg16minW said:
We have made Putin stronger, their economy is booming and the EU is at a crossroads as Germany staggers under its ridiculous anti-nuclear energy policy.

Abundant affordable energy has a direct link to the standard of living of any country. Germany is in real economic trouble and the labour problems are just beginning there. As energy and materials (derived from energy) become more expensive there is only one area to save money in manufacturing. Labour.
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Russia is now running a war-time economy; it's going to have a short term impact, but this extra production is draiing at an alarming rate the state coffers, hence why the Ruble is in the tank and getting weaker.

Eventually, despite the war foooting growth, when the state is forced to cut off the never ending stream of cash, the economy is going to crash and crash badly;

Watch this, Joe covers Russia regularly and he's been largely spot on:


Russia is f**ked for decades to come.

And why the Russian army / Military is utterly fcuked up and will all end badly.....:

They have lost every single person they had in the army as the invasion force, it only gets worse.


 
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Spursex said:
Russia is now running a war-time economy; it's going to have a short term impact, but this extra production is draiing at an alarming rate the state coffers, hence why the Ruble is in the tank and getting weaker.

Eventually, despite the war foooting growth, when the state is forced to cut off the never ending stream of cash, the economy is going to crash and crash badly;

Watch this, Joe covers Russia regularly and he's been largely spot on:


Russia is f**ked for decades to come.

And why the Russian army / Military is utterly fcuked up and will all end badly.....:

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Everybody's watching China very closely. Putin's akin to a storm in a teacup.
 
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