Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy And a slightly shaky grasp of punctuation? -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
My line of work, the far-east are already taking manufacturing from the UK and competing with us. We have three plants on site sitting idle because our customers have no need of our services, people are being layed off and the reason is the far-east doing it cheaper and as well. How long till this market moves? Sums are sums. What exactly is that? Gadgets? What would 2.5 billion (pure guess) Chinese want with Eastenders? The writers and producers will move to where the money is and the skills will too. Even on skilled high technology the closure of western plants means that the technology and skills are being moved to the far-east and this technology transfer won't take long to happen our competitors are not centuries behind, decades maybe but not centuries. -- Martin: "For a minute there, you bored me to death." VTR1000 Firestorm TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com
I'm less so, but based on the view 'bad stuff needs to happen' to fix the problem. Cheap goods are OK whilst people actually have jobs to pay for them, when they don't the goods won't sell.. sooner or later even joe bloggs on the stret will make the link between cheap imported goods, a shrinking uk manufacturing base and lack of jobs.. In the mean time, without jobs people will travel less.. more so as petrol reserves are depleted over the next 50+ years. Given enough time local communities will once again return.. or a newly merged McWalMartSony will own everything, everywhere. Or, perhaps we'll have another world war, which would reduce population to a level where a lot of issues disappear. I doubt we'll go back to outside shitters though.
Have the investors agreed to the deal? No. Is anyone else interested in the plant? doesnt appear to be a queue of them. I work at the cutting edge of modern healthcare, I am a skilled and educated person, I am soon to be redundant due to lack of orders and no other reason than, no customers as we can't compete. A threat of what? What can they threaten with? We are already in free fall, we don't make anything any more because we are not competitive. I would suggest you take a long hard look at British industry and realise that as far as manufacturing goes its going east and there is very little that can be done about it. -- Martin: "For a minute there, you bored me to death." VTR1000 Firestorm TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com
Thou's YKIMS -- Martin: "For a minute there, you bored me to death." VTR1000 Firestorm TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie Heh. I do hope not. I've got the new chain, and I'm about to depart garage-wards for a fettling session. Assuming I retain both hands, I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks again! -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Wicked Uncle Nigel emerged from their own little world to say What does a new chain cost now? You have to try very hard to injure both hands. I suppose you could always lock the throttle in the starting position and juggle it. No probs. I'm glad it survived being transported on the Guzzi. He didn't seem to be hanging around as I waved him off.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie Twenty quid-ish. Oxfam will be a little better off shortly too. He doesn't. Quite famous for it. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
There may be. I've never seen it. Is it a reasonably modern well-equipped plant, or a piece of 1970s industrial archaeology? I have my own preconceptions.
There was a *very* interesting (and, I hope, accurate) piece in The Times a while back, pointing out that while the UK was losing its manufacturing skills, these are skills and industries that are actually becoming cheaper. Where we're gaining is in consultancy, finance, development, research, etc which is actually becoming more expensive. Ergo, we're replacing one lower-margin skills base with a new higher-margin skills base. If manufacturing is the be-all and end-all, then consider Switzerland (yes, I know they have some high-tech engineering there, but it's not like it's on a Japanese scale). Dicsuss.
I'd be very interested to know if Mr J Bloor Esq is running a ruler over the place. Or at least, looking at the brand, designs, and possibilities.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Rope Oh, I think the occasion calls for silk, don't you? And a nice hangman's noose is de rigeur, I believe. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Nidge wrote: [snip] Let all the workers pay £1 a share and turn it into a worker's co-op. -- John SV650 Black it is and naked
....and which are often made in greenfield sites in the UK in plants with some of the highest productivity in Europe and sometimes even the world. ( cf Honda, Nissan, Toyota = Swindon, Sunderland, Derby) ernest
