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Originally posted by scooterscot View PostSuch skills don't exist for those small business to simply 'pop-up', do they? We're talking changes that only occur in a generation.
It could take 20 years to increase manufacturing to the correct, sustainable level. It took 60 years to move it offshore.
The "factories" that are developed over the coming years will be highly automated and not create that many jobs.Comment
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When I worked on a mega-project ( $10B budget ) part of the "deal" with the country that we were working with was that the project had to create local jobs and manufacturing facilities.
So we ended up building a several factories and fabrication plants in the country in question.
To bring back the skills the Government needs to be involved.
For example, let's say we want to build a new wind farm.
The government awards the contract but it would not just be scored on a financial basis, it would also look at creating a joint-partnership and training and employing local staff.
The government then prints £10B to pay for it. Invites the usual suspects to bid ( Siemens, Vestas and so on ).
At the end of the project, the UK has a wind farm and more importantly has re-skilled part of the workforce. The winning company has cash and a new ( jointly owned ) manufacturing facility.
Everyones a winner.Comment
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There is a big tussle going on in government at the moment.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...binet-tensions
The fact that the Brexit commitee is 50% Remoaners and 50% Brexiteers seems to point to a compromise that will not be a hard Brexit. May seems to be also contemplating continuing to allow unskilled workers. Probably will be some sort of compromise "oiled" by some hefty contributions to the EU budget.
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Originally posted by Fronttoback View PostSmall business that imports stuff will suffer increased prices, that they might push on to the consumer causing inflation. If this causes enough pain, local businesses will spring up to supply the parts cheaper than the imported gear. People only import because it has been cheaper to do so. So all these little local businesses pop up manufacturing parts that used to be imported - and this is how the UK rebuilds it's manufacturing base.
This is simplistic view and does not work in practice. I am shocked that people can think this way in this day and age.
Manufacturing relies on global business as specialist suppliers world wide. Local businesses will NOT spring up to supply the parts cheaper than the imported gear. The cost of tooling and training is horrendous and nobody is going to rely on the pound being low for the next twenty years or so.
At one end of the scale I can recite when the millennium wheel was being build; the only factory in the world with a large enough lathe to mill the hub was Skoda in the Czech Republic. On the small end of the scale, my friend manufactures specialist sound equipment. Parts have to be imported from all over the world. One part can only be sourced from Germany and China. No-one else in the world has a machine to make the part.
If you want to look at self-sufficiency, take a look at Iran. Due to sanctions they had to innovate for themselves. After 20 years of hard graft they produce a variety of high-tec equipment but the cost is so horrendous the home market can’t afford it and it is too costly to export.
The UK can’t go back to the 50s manufacturing and rely on selling Morris Minors to the Empire."A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostThis is simplistic view and does not work in practice. I am shocked that people can think this way in this day and age.
Manufacturing relies on global business as specialist suppliers world wide. Local businesses will NOT spring up to supply the parts cheaper than the imported gear. The cost of tooling and training is horrendous and nobody is going to rely on the pound being low for the next twenty years or so.
At one end of the scale I can recite when the millennium wheel was being build; the only factory in the world with a large enough lathe to mill the hub was Skoda in the Czech Republic. On the small end of the scale, my friend manufactures specialist sound equipment. Parts have to be imported from all over the world. One part can only be sourced from Germany and China. No-one else in the world has a machine to make the part.
If you want to look at self-sufficiency, take a look at Iran. Due to sanctions they had to innovate for themselves. After 20 years of hard graft they produce a variety of high-tec equipment but the cost is so horrendous the home market can’t afford it and it is too costly to export.
The UK can’t go back to the 50s manufacturing and rely on selling Morris Minors to the Empire.Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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with one off manufacturing quickly becoming a cottage industry and large scale manufacture having little labour cost its only the tooling & raw materials that prevent it coming back if the government decide to push it.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostGermany's manufacturing has been propped up by the low Euro to great cost to Mediterranean EU"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by tomtomagain View PostNobody said it would be quick.
It could take 20 years to increase manufacturing to the correct, sustainable level. It took 60 years to move it offshore.
The "factories" that are developed over the coming years will be highly automated and not create that many jobs.
The manufacturing boat has left the UK long ago. We're a services based economy true and full, we should stick to that. PPI switchboards for the world. Have you been in a accident?"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Looks like we getting the wind up the US, let alone the EU.
Britain needs to sort out its relationship with the European Union before it can begin to talk to the United States about any post-Brexit trade deal.
A statement of the obvious? Maybe, but the US trade representative Michael Froman has said it.
He told Reuters in Geneva: "The practicality is that until the UK sorts through with the EU the nature of its relationship... it's impossible to have a serious conversation about knowing what kind of trade agreement you can have with the UK separately."
According to the Financial Times, under a plan being considered by the Cabinet, the City of London might be able to keep its cherished access to the European Single Market, if the government pays billions of pounds to the European Union.
At the moment financial firms based in the UK have a business passport to sell their products across Europe, but that could be lost after Brexit.
According to the article, Prime Minister Theresa May has not ruled out paying to keep that system in place.Last edited by scooterscot; 17 October 2016, 12:20."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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