Making the news today....

[David Cropper]

4 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I’m not diminishing the experience of people who genuinely have issues (or maybe I am, opinions will vary) I’m bemoaning the concept of mental health as a commodity by celebs, if you haven’t had issues that you can have an article about in some publication or online source, then you’re no one these days.

 

That's a very serious response. Sod it, I'll ring Mr Johnson hopefully he won't tell me to bugger off again and man up.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

2 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

 

Edited October 10, 2020 by kevinjohnsonmbe

[Johnsond]

On 07/10/2020 at 13:31, Johnsond said:

Watching the big announcement ref the new drive to wind energy etc etc, I wonder if anyone has pointed out to Boris or Nicola that virtually none of the Mono piles or jackets currently being installed around the UK coastline are made here, same applies to the turbines and blades etc. The ships, barges, jack ups etc are almost exclusively foreign flagged, owned and crewed. The companies whom are actually putting these in are predominantly overseas energy providers looking to make huge returns in the long run off the brutish consumer. Jackets constructed in of all places China ??, and UAE yards with huge amounts of cheap labour then shipped half way around the world in the name of green energy ?‍♂️?‍♂️. 

The wasted opportunities are bordering on criminal yet it never seems to even get a mention. We are not the new Saudi of wind energy at all. we are nothing more than an unregulated cash cow right now getting a few scraps of work from an industry that should be providing highly skilled training and jobs for tens of thousands of UK workers not lining the pockets of multi national companies and shareholders, 

I despair at the lack of vision, ambition and foresight etc of UK management and successive governments. 
 

This is the sort of thing I spoke of, Companies from all over the world getting in on this free for all that we will pay for. 

[breffni]

2 hours ago, Johnsond said:

This is the sort of thing I spoke of, Companies from all over the world getting in on this free for all that we will pay for. 

The decline of British engineering and manufacturing industries is a disgrace. 

[Johnsond]

30 minutes ago, breffni said:

The decline of British engineering and manufacturing industries is a disgrace. 

Simple solution if it’s going into British waters it’s built here or at the very minimum a majority portion of it. 
the resultant jobs and boost to communities would be huge. My views on electricity provision 

have always been that it should be state owned/controlled along with all other utilities etc that are essential to the everyday well being of the population. 
Nationalism should not be a dirty word.  

[Khriss]

1 hour ago, breffni said:

The decline of British engineering and manufacturing industries is a disgrace. 

After seeing so many fine efforts ( Harrier,  Aston, Rolls,  Hovis, etc) am appalled at what passes for ' excellence'  these days. We built bridges all around the World once - now can't organise a pissup  ( pub shut at 10 for 'no good reason' ) K  

[eggsarascal]

33 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Simple solution if it’s going into British waters it’s built here or at the very minimum a majority portion of it. 
the resultant jobs and boost to communities would be huge. My views on electricity provision 

have always been that it should be state owned/controlled along with all other utilities etc that are essential to the everyday well being of the population. 
Nationalism should not be a dirty word.  

Wouldn't that be nice, in the twenty-odd years I've worked in the water industry it's never been owned by a British company, never mind state run.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Yeah, well, what a disappointment Sunak’s speech to the Tory conference was. 
 

Rather than ‘pressing the restart button’ as he boldly claimed, all he actually proposed was a continuation of the existing flawed, Ponzi scheme of borrow, build houses and lend money to help pay for them in order to continue the misguided concept of relying upon GDP as a measure of economic success. 
 

Deeply disillusioned of Cornwall....
 

 

[Stubby]

22 minutes ago, Khriss said:

After seeing so many fine efforts ( Harrier,  Aston, Rolls,  Hovis, etc) am appalled at what passes for ' excellence'  these days. We built bridges all around the World once - now can't organise a pissup  ( pub shut at 10 for 'no good reason' ) K  

Well said Isambard !

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, Khriss said:

After seeing so many fine efforts ( Harrier,  Aston, Rolls,  Hovis, etc) am appalled at what passes for ' excellence'  these days. We built bridges all around the World once - now can't organise a pissup  ( pub shut at 10 for 'no good reason' ) K  

I worked on the new forth crossing doing some of the subsea stuff for the main legs, Chinese steel throughout and upon UK spec NDT standards being implemented post installation a resultant pile of defects that necessitated the gouging out and rewelding of numerous defective joints. Shit government Shit management and zero vision for the future apart from next years balance sheet, share price and dividend ?