howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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This weeks investment highlights?????
The Dowty story dates back to 2017, United Caps dates back to July and all finished goods are for the home market. Safran Nascelles have been in Burnley since 2005 and are now recruiting because of high demand for their products. The Siemens one announced in March is great news for Goole and again their finished products are for the UK market.
Brian Dixon
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the irish have already given crulela a kick in goolies and are not backing her.
Captain Haddock
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Philip Hammond: Brexit will leave UK economy worse off
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46366162
What this actually means is that the 'cost' to GDP in ten years' time of foregoing half a million extra migrant workers is a couple of pounds a week per head.
Sounds like a bargain to me compared to the cost of extra housing, health, education, roads etc needed to cope with a continued influx of Eastern European 'coolies' to pick our cauliflowers.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I won't believe anything the Chancellor says until I see it on the side of a bus. On a more serious note I thought the plan was to bring back the seasonal worker's scheme that has worked so well in the past.
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Jan Higgins
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The more I listen to the politicians and the pundits the more I think they are all guessing on what will happen just like the rest of us.
Speculation rules the country at the moment.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:On a more serious note I thought the plan was to bring back the seasonal worker's scheme that has worked so well in the past.
Indeed it is , as the Japanese are doing.
https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/a06003/
The Japanese, being sensible, do NOT allow wives and children to accompany and the workers are expected to go back home at the end of their contract.
Indeed the Turkish Gastarbeiters working in Germany in the sixties were partially responsible for Germany's industrial growth. These were MEANT to be temporary workers but the stupid lefty Germans allowed wives and dependents to join and then didn't have the bottle to get rid of them and there went the neighbourhood and Germany started to have the difficulties which beset a multi-cultural and vibrant society etc ..............
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The Japanese scheme seems rather more involved than our one which simply gave short term visas to young people from Central and Eastern Europe who hot footed it back home once the work finished and spent their wages where they got better value.
The Turkish guest workers were quite happy to live in Nissan huts and the like and send money back to their poor village. When they were allowed to settle in Germany and bring family members over the villages suffered and parts of German cities were dragged down.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Chalk and Cheese Howard.
The VOLAG (later SARS) system used by us was for seasonal workers - like the new system mooted is for leave to enter for up to six months , presumably with employment restricted to specific employer.
The Japanese system is looking to longer term workers.
It's a bit like my brother's first job in Saudi, fixed term contract, treated as a second class citizen, living in crap accommodation, not allowed to take out wife BUT earning a tax free fortune (by UK standards, though low by Saudi ones) which he sent home. What's not to like?
That's why he took early retirement, is living in a £1 1/2 million house and refers to Arabs as 'sand ni**ers'!
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Button
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Before we all get excited and go round the 'Project Fear oh yes it is/oh no it isn't' loop all over again, it's worth noting that this is a risk assessment based on a number of assumptions - the key words here being 'risk' (not certainty) and 'assumptions'.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Should be an entertaining debate with the PM who wanted to remain in the EU telling us why it is best we leave and her opposite number who always wanted us to leave trying to convince us it is better to stay in.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46386737howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I think the PM is playing a shrewd game at present by stressing to her MPs that there is only one offer on the table and inferring that if it was voted down those doing so would be held to account for the chaos next April.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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how can you have a debate when both contestants are on different channels.
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Weird Granny Slater
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Button wrote:...it's worth noting that this is a risk assessment based on a number of assumptions...
But there's only one assumption here and that's The Assumption of the body of a democratic UK to RIP in Remain heaven, carried through the pearly gates by Saints Olly and Theresa on behalf of spooks, militarists, globalist financiers, empire-builders and neoliberals everywhere. (Apologies to members of any elites I may have omitted.)
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I wonder how many of those 52% realise how a "No Deal" Brexit will affect their daily lives, also how many of those think we won't have to pay the £29 billion?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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I am at the assumption that we are buggerd wgs.
howard, its £39 billion.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The PM seems to be living in her own world at the present, her job should be to convince her MPs to back her deal. Instead she has gone around the country trying to garner support and today tried to convince leaders of the G20. On the plus side Mrs Loathsome has agreed to back her.
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'Strong and stable' Howard, that's the government we were promised. What a lovely big fat lie that was.