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So, with the IMF predicting the UK will out perform Germany and France over the coming year, maybe you could invest in lesser performing EU countries, to make sure you earn less from your investments, whilst sticking 2 fingers up to the Leave camp at the same time? |
The UK dropped a place in the world rankings... past France so how is that outperforming France? Every major economic body including the IMF predicts the UK is likely to go into a recession. That FT survey was depressing reading.
Do I go with the world's experts or believe you? Maybe you're secretly a Soros or some kind of autistic savant but I'm a tad sceptical.
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| gorillaonabike wrote: | | mpd72 wrote: |
So, with the IMF predicting the UK will out perform Germany and France over the coming year, maybe you could invest in lesser performing EU countries, to make sure you earn less from your investments, whilst sticking 2 fingers up to the Leave camp at the same time? |
The UK dropped a place in the world rankings... past France so how is that outperforming France? Every major economic body including the IMF predicts the UK is likely to go into a recession. That FT survey was depressing reading.
Do I go with the world's experts or believe you? Maybe you're secretly a Soros or some kind of autistic savant but I'm a tad sceptical.
When the entire world is shouting 'fire,' I reach for the fire extinguisher. Call me crazy because of it. |
You're not really the financial expert you pretend to be are you? You're expertise comes from the BBC and the Guardian.
The UK was barely ahead of France before the referendum on economic size, it briefly dropped below (to great glee from the Guardian). I should imagine, with a 12% increase in the FTSE100 and the IMF now changing tune, predicting the UK will out perform France and Germany, that your doom and gloom is like your sex life. Premature and purely in your head.
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Are you a bit dim?
So you don't think a £200m contract is big?
Would love to see your balance sheet. Or you to actually read what you're replying to.
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No. They're not bought from abroad. They're bought from a UK company, but are manufactured abroad.
And here's me, thinking you may know what you're typing about... |
Are we still using Boaty McFecking Boatface here, as the example of how sh1t British manufacturing is?
Boeing, Airbus etc, don't seem to think UK manufacturing is too shabby and I'm guessing they wont put up with tardiness or poor quality.
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Can use both Boaty Mcboatface and the navy contracts. Both use the same stuff 
Because of the length of time it was taking to replace British manufactured components, the MOD would buy cheaper, Spanish stuff, and it's that good it doesn't need replacing. 
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| Jewlio Rides Again wrote: | So you don't think a £200m contract is big? |
It's 262 skilled[*] workers for one year, or 26 and someone to vacuum the floors for a more realistic 10 years.
So, no, not big. It'd warrant a few powerpoint presentations and a chewing-gum-and-duct-tape pre-alpha demo until a real deal was signed. A startup might run itself into bankruptcy and default on a whole bunch of creditors chasing it.
[*] Engineers are typically expected to gross $1M per year. The long thick trailing shaft of the spear, you're welcome.
| Robby wrote: | The UK is good at high end research and design - but Brexit is already starting to fuck that up. |
Oh noes. Who's deaded?
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| Jewlio Rides Again wrote: | Can use both Boaty Mcboatface and the navy contracts. Both use the same stuff
Because of the length of time it was taking to replace British manufactured components, the MOD would buy cheaper, Spanish stuff, and it's that good it doesn't need replacing. |
So, as I keep saying, you're one trick pony is Boaty McFekkin Boatface then.
Awesome example to pick. I bow down to your knowledge.
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| mpd72 wrote: | | Jewlio Rides Again wrote: | Can use both Boaty Mcboatface and the navy contracts. Both use the same stuff
Because of the length of time it was taking to replace British manufactured components, the MOD would buy cheaper, Spanish stuff, and it's that good it doesn't need replacing. |
So, as I keep saying, you're one trick pony is Boaty McFekkin Boatface then.
Awesome example to pick. I bow down to your knowledge. |
No, my one trick pony isn't boaty mcboatface. It includes MOD supplies, as well as industry in the new energy markets, and, surprisingly enough, the epically delayed spare components are going to south America - nothing to do with the MOD.
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| mpd72 wrote: | You're not really the financial expert you pretend to be are you? You're expertise comes from the BBC and the Guardian.
The UK was barely ahead of France before the referendum on economic size, it briefly dropped below (to great glee from the Guardian). I should imagine, with a 12% increase in the FTSE100 and the IMF now changing tune, predicting the UK will out perform France and Germany, that your doom and gloom is like your sex life. Premature and purely in your head.
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How dare you accuse me of being a left-wing, sandal-wearing, low-earning, tree-hugging, liberal-loving, BBC-watching (Top Gear, old edition excepted), Guardian reader?
I'm a meat eating, money-earning, BMW-driving, home-owning, broadsheet-reading, right wing bastard who believes in making money. My ex-wife took me for more money than the average Brit earns in 15 years and Brexit will likely cost me more.
If someone says that they hate Johnny foreigner and want to give the UK a good cleansing, hang the cost, I get it. That's a choice and I can kinda accept someone wanting to lose money in return for having a less culturally diverse environment. I get it, I genuinely do.
However, the idea that the UK could be financially better off is just stupid when every, single economic body, every bank and every government globally is publicly stating, IMF included, that Brexit is damaging to the British economy. This is from a bunch of people who can't normally agree that night is darker than day, something that you'd also struggle with judging by the economic incoherence of your posts.
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| gorillaonabike wrote: | [
However, the idea that the UK could be financially better off is just stupid when every, single economic body, every bank and every government globally is publicly stating, IMF included, that Brexit is damaging to the British economy. |
IMF you say? The very people who predict UK growth will out perform France and Germany then.... Not the best example to re-enforce your doom mongering eh? 
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/imf-cuts-uks-economic-growth-forecast-britain-will-still-perform-better-germany-france-1571485
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guys calm down 
The topic here is Brexit negotiations not engineers ok
Having said that here is the latest news: a former French minister will lead post-Brexit negotiations between the EU and Britain
https://uk.businessinsider.com/r-french-ex-commissioner-to-lead-eu-brexit-talks-2016-7?r=US&IR=T
He is very experienced and very right wing. Think of him as EU version of Davis Davies. You reap what you saw.
Mr Barnier previously infuriated British minsters with his calls for more financial regulation when he held the post of EU commissioner for internal markets and services between 2010 and 2014.
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| Sload wrote: | I'm not sure why he thinks we are so dire at that lark, we are world class. And just like any manufacturing base, we have some damp squibs mixed in. What we are though is expensive. |
well if you're making a decent profit, at a time you can be bothered to make the product, why chase arse to produce more, at a lower cost?
If you want to produce a commodity, expect to get nout for it
As we're the best, no one can match it, thus supply doesn't outstrip demand and prices here are high.
You might get the select few paper shuffling civil servants on here doing down British Industry, but it's their doings that puts the brakes on industry to thrive, thankfully brexit and the currency adjustment might just have saved port talbot and some heavy industry through this glut of steel on the market.
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