UK Politics Thread

SuperDave84 wrote:

I think someone made the joke before but Channel Four could do a reverse of "A place in the sun", showing Brexit voting pensioners doing a bit of house-hunting when they come back from Spain, having been deported.

They'll be showing them round flats that haven't been renovated in fifty years with the bonus feature of being less than 50 years from a Mecca Bingo hall, and a certificate from the local council that it is now two years rat free, as they tour the delights of dilapidated austerity-ravaged Britain, all for sale for the equivalent of five years salary at the now-closed local manufacturing plant.

And if they have it in Scun-thorpe, they could even call it "A place in the scun".

“A Place in the Scun”

Trap junior wrote:

Straight talking and full of sense Jim Allister on Nolan Live now talking about a United EIRE

let me guess, he mentioned being british ?

'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te
Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941

He’s like a wee fat gerbil with a speech impediment Jim Allister

He wasn’t made answer the question about the troubles and the civil rights protests. Looked worried when it was asked. Nolan let him off the hook

So, regarding the news earlier today about Ford I just read that 550 people are employed building ford engine blocks at the old Delorean plant in Dunmurry, Co Antrim. The engine blocks are then sent to other factories in Germany and Turkey.

The EU currently has a customs union with turkey which means ford cars can be exported to countries like Korea tariff free. The UK govt has confirmed that the roll over of the EU deal with Turkey won't be ready by the 30/03/19 meaning Korea and other countries the eu has a fta with could slap tariffs on ford cars from that date (simply because a component in the car will be made by a 3rd country).

The plant in the north is owned by a French company contracted to ford.

It doesn't look good for them.

Edited by colemanY2K - 14 Feb 2019 at 12:02am

"One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942.

colemanY2K wrote:

So, regarding the news earlier today about Ford I just read that 550 people are employed building ford engine blocks at the old Delorean plant in Dunmurry, Co Antrim. The engine blocks are then sent to other factories in Germany and Turkey.

The EU currently has a customs union with turkey which means ford cars can be exported to countries like Korea tariff free. The UK govt has confirmed that the roll over of the EU deal with Turkey won't be ready by the 30/03/19 meaning Korea and other countries the eu has a fta with could slap tariffs on ford cars from that date (simply because a component in the car will be made by a 3rd country).

The plant in the north is owned by a French company contracted to ford.

It doesn't look good for them.

Interesting. I lived in Korea for a good few years,it would be rare enough to see a non korean car,probably about 1% of cars over there.Obviously theres so many Korean car manufacturers but I was also told there is a huge tariff on foreign cars.

The foreign cars you would see would be mostly high end German models. Once or twice Id see a small Peugeot or citreon and think whats the point of paying a fortune to have that!?

Peter Grant

'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te
Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941

pre Madonna wrote:

Newryrep wrote:

Peter Grant

Good man! I knew we would win you over.

Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".

Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn

Bunch of neo-liberal ****s. They want a new politics by adding to the choice between the friendly looking, but equally spiteful Blair/Macron/Clinton capitalism and the Brexit/Le Pen/Trump right-wing bollocks.

Corbyn stood and fought through Blairism, against the Iraq war and the privatisation that furthered Thatcherism and set Britain back further. These neo-liberal ****s start seeing a Labour Party acting like a Labour Party and they throw their toys out of the pram. f**k off ye bunch of ****s.

I have some sympathy for Berger, it seems she was getting a lot of abuse based on her background online, but, in saying that, she is a liberal and not a socialist, democratic or otherwise. She joined 'New Labour' and was never 'real' labour.