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UK business is too lazy and fat says Liam Fox
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So, he's saying we don't export enough. True
He's saying we shouldn't be relying on foreign investment, e.g. Hinkley Point - owned by the French, paid for by the Chinese with a ridiculous ROI from our side.
Well, if he doesn't want Hinkley Point to be purely foreign then it needs to be built and owned in the UK. No power company in the UK will do that because it means long-term thinking, not short term, and no shareholder will want that - they just want to see short term returns.
Since we're not allowed to have anything "nationalised" these days, then it needs to be a government supported deal with UK owned construction and UK owned power supply companies.
Will that ever work?…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostSo, he's saying we don't export enough. True
He's saying we shouldn't be relying on foreign investment, e.g. Hinkley Point - owned by the French, paid for by the Chinese with a ridiculous ROI from our side.
Well, if he doesn't want Hinkley Point to be purely foreign then it needs to be built and owned in the UK. No power company in the UK will do that because it means long-term thinking, not short term, and no shareholder will want that - they just want to see short term returns.
Since we're not allowed to have anything "nationalised" these days, then it needs to be a government supported deal with UK owned construction and UK owned power supply companies.
Will that ever work?
I would be far happier chucking the french off the project and using a proven and working Chinese design...merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostThis about sums up it up:
Liam Fox confirms that Britain now has a nationalist government | Coffee House
What a repellent piece of work is that nonentity Liam Fox.
https://www.theguardian.com/business...investment-bcc
Looks like businesses will be heading for the exit.I'm alright JackComment
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostSo, he's saying we don't export enough. True
He's saying we shouldn't be relying on foreign investment, e.g. Hinkley Point - owned by the French, paid for by the Chinese with a ridiculous ROI from our side.
Well, if he doesn't want Hinkley Point to be purely foreign then it needs to be built and owned in the UK. No power company in the UK will do that because it means long-term thinking, not short term, and no shareholder will want that - they just want to see short term returns.
Since we're not allowed to have anything "nationalised" these days, then it needs to be a government supported deal with UK owned construction and UK owned power supply companies.
Will that ever work?
Short-term investment is all we seem to know. The Heathrow extension debacle, what 15+ years they've been talking about it. HS2 10+ years..
We talk a lot, achieve very little. But if a terrorist in Afghanistan says some nasty words then suddenly we've got billions to spend on war."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 sasguru View PostIt's all bollux. Especially coming from a proven corrupt, expenses fiddling politician who wouldn't know what business is if it bit him on the bum.
What is the total pish about exporting being a fooking "duty"? Are we becoming Soviet? Business is there to make money, the fact that the UK is a services oriented economy with little to sell abroad is entirely due to Tory policy in the 80s.
We've had it time and time again, with Labour over-spending or over-pandering.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
We've had it time and time again, with Labour over-spending or over-pandering."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 scooterscot View PostShort-term investment is all we seem to know. The Heathrow extension debacle, what 15+ years they've been talking about it. HS2 10+ years..
We talk a lot, achieve very little. But if a terrorist in Afghanistan says some nasty words then suddenly we've got billions to spend on war.Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostRubbish. It's due to Labour-run unions in the 70s stifling industry with strikes and leaving us with very little of quality to export beyond luxury brands and market leaders that even they couldn't cock up.
So now let's take the next logical step:
Since we have "very little of quality to export", what do you expect to trade if all these hypothetical deals with non-EU countries come about?Last edited by sasguru; 12 September 2016, 11:10.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
Exporting is your fooking duty dontcha know, you idle layabout.
Why do you hate Britain so much that you shirk your duty?Hard Brexit now!
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