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[minerve 2] 05/2/2021 10:51

I think the Europeans have better things to do than fill in loads of forms to sell a handful of cars to the Little Englanders. They actually trade with the rest of the world rather than just signing empty agreements. ;)

[geckotheglorious] 05/2/2021 10:36

Cheshire,
Post 331359
Most tax evading Remoaners tend to be such! Minerve excepted obviously!

:)

[crazi] 05/2/2021 10:26

Daily Mail U.K.

Britain could vaccinate its way out of lockdown by April 7th
+ UK is on course to finish injecting all over-50s on that day or SOONER + Signs jabs are 'already working'
Photo via @DailyMailUK

[freddie01] 05/2/2021 09:44

£54m Glass Futures facility set to be built in St Helens


Network Space has submitted a planning application to St Helens Borough Council for a £54million glass research and innovation facility.

Developed for Glass Futures Ltd, the proposed 160,000 sq. ft Centre of Excellence will be the world’s first openly accessible, multi-disciplinary experimental glass melting facility for research and development trials. The facility will be used to deliver industry and government backed R&D projects aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of glass production and will provide a platform for industry to test and trial their own ideas, both collaboratively and individually.

The facility is being funded through a mix of public and private investment. A £15m UKRI grant has been secured for the installation of a globally unique, experimental furnace and state of the art infrastructure capable of producing 30 tonnes of glass per day and will enable the Glass Industry to implement change in a safe experimental space. Landowner and developer, Network Space, will secure private sector investment to support the construction costs alongside a £9m grant from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. Glass sector companies will also contribute a further £20m in resource, time and equipment to support the project.

In addition to creating 80 new permanent jobs, the project will lead to much-needed apprenticeships, training and general up-skilling within the glass sector and attract further inward investment to the Region as leading international glass companies focus resources to be within geographical reach of the facility.

Catherine Chilvers, Development Director at Network Space, said: “As landowner and developer, we have worked in partnership with St Helen’s Council and Glass Futures over the past two years to rapidly progress the design and development of this transformational project for the Borough and in doing so, have established a hugely effective public/private sector delivery model.

“The submitted planning proposals will regenerate the former United Glassworks site and enable Government and industry led research activity and training opportunities. The facility will create new jobs and support the transition of R&D to commercial applications, acting as a catalyst for further economic growth within St Helens.”

Not-for-Profit organisation, Glass Futures Ltd, will operate the Centre of Excellence, its Chief Executive, Richard Katz, said: “The planning submission is a great step forward in creating a facility that will deliver innovative technologies to make glass net zero. The Centre of Excellence will help us work collaboratively with our members, the supply chain and academia to achieve that aim.”

Developments at the facility will also have profound implications for other foundation industries such as chemicals, ceramics, paper, steel and cement. What, for example, is discovered as a waste product in one sector could become a raw material in another. Innovations relating to energy efficiencies and a move away from using natural gas as a primary heating source could also be shared or harnessed.

Construction company, Bowmer + Kirkland, has been appointed as Stage 1 contractor following an open procurement process which was managed through the North West Construction Hub.

[freddie01] 05/2/2021 09:34

British manufacturer WFEL is building a new multi-million pound production facility at its site in Stockport. Boxer Mechanised Infantry Vehicles for the British Army will be built at the factory as part of the ARTEC consortium's £2.3bn contract with the MoD #UKmfgFlag of United Kingdom

[cheshire pete] 05/2/2021 09:25

Alphorn is a smart guy g2 understands all sorts of high level finance stuff, trading etc. Just didn't agree with him on EU/Brexit.

[diku] 05/2/2021 09:15

That boat ride must be very scary...

[grahamite2] 05/2/2021 09:07

Max, there was no scorn shown for Alphorn. I just mentioned he was a bit thin-skinned for a forum like this, and that he expected the same sort of deference as Pooh-Bah in The Mikado.

I think it a great shame he's gone as I wanted to ask him about the Facel Vega.

[cheshire pete] 05/2/2021 09:05

maxk #352: "...Bank economists estimate the deal will leave output around 3.25pc lower in the long run compared to the UK staying in the EU, with trade overall 10.5pc down."

Doesn't look like they've given much credit for the trade deals round the world that Liz Truss has sorted.

Economists seem to be a breed apart. In other walks of life involving crystal ball gazing, predictions are given as a figure +/- a percentage either side to reflect the uncertainties in the input parameters. To home in on figures without even higher, lower or median range estimates suggests a level of accuracy that cannot be justified and is therefore misleading, some might say dishonest. "around 3.25pc"....does that mean 3.24 to 3.26pc range or 3 to 3.5 or 2.5 to 4?

[maxk] 05/2/2021 08:54

This is straight out of "Yes Minister"



8:29am

Pandemic means UK can't track how many migrants are entering or leaving

The pandemic means the UK can no longer track how many migrants are entering or leaving the UK, says a University of Oxford report.

The university’s Migration Observatory said it meant policymakers were effectively “flying blind” when planning for the impact of migration on schools, hospitals, transport and other local services.

The problem has arisen because the Covid-19 pandemic has meant face-to-face interviews for migrant and population surveys have been suspended for up to 10 months.

It meant key measures of migration and population, such as the international passenger and labour force surveys, have been disrupted and cannot be relied on for accurate data. The same is also true of National Insurance numbers, another indicator, said the observatory.

“There is absolutely massive uncertainty about what is going on with migration at the moment, because all the data sources we normally use have been hugely disrupted,” said Madeleine Sumption, the observatory’s director.

“This has left us flying blind just as the UK is introducing a new immigration system, and will make it more difficult to understand the impacts of new policies.”

[poikka] 05/2/2021 08:38

"The UK financial services industry should focus on competing with the US and Asia rather than the EU.

That's the view of the boss of Barclays for the City after Brexit.

Jes Staley told the BBC that although jobs that would have been created here have been moved to the EU, Brexit gives one of the UK's most important sectors the chance to define its own agenda.

"I think Brexit is more than likely on the positive side than on the negative side," he said.

"What the UK needs and London needs, is to make sure that the City is one of the best places, whether [it is in terms of] regulation or law or language, or talent.

"I think what London needs to be focused on is not Frankfurt or Paris, [it] needs to be focused on New York and Singapore."

However, he said he was not a fan of widespread deregulation to achieve that - no regulatory bonfire for him.

In fact, he said the UK's robust regulation was a major strength, not weakness, and referred to the recent clampdown on firms offering buy now, pay later schemes as reassuring.

"You see what's happening right now with buy now, pay later, you know, the FCA is going to come in and start to increase the regulation of that marketplace. That's the right thing to do.

"And, in a funny way we've gotten pretty good at working inside the regulatory framework that is here. It protects the financial industry in London as we learn how to deal with this regulation, and it makes the bank safer."

He does admit that money and jobs have moved from the UK as a result of Brexit, but says the impact has been modest.

"Yes, there are some jobs that are going to Europe, that otherwise would have been in the UK, but it's in the hundreds. Barclays employs some 50,000 people in the United Kingdom, roughly 20,000 outside of the UK and 10,000 in the US.

"Some amount of capital has moved but London is still obviously the main centre for Barclays."

His message is that the UK should do everything it can to foster trust and good relations with the EU, but not at the cost of the UK becoming uncompetitive with the bigger fish in the global capital pool.

[utrickytrees] 04/2/2021 23:20

Just realised why gender equality is such a big issue....they're easy meat!

[jl5006] 04/2/2021 22:38

Psycho
U have the answer to all ur own questions
But 1 across differs to one down.
But u provide no answer for BOJO other than the unpretty one!

[utrickytrees] 04/2/2021 22:30

Most women I know will boycott political debate to avoid exposure and confrontation, their opinions influenced by pop media...they're 50%.

[utrickytrees] 04/2/2021 22:12

Let's hope so PC, I live in a house full of women and am not seeing my mates in the pub. Could I be being manipulated I wonder?

[docholiday1] 04/2/2021 22:03

Yes better days ahead I believe

[bunz3] 04/2/2021 21:38

good strong day for lloy Today ,up 5,6% blue
also gdr looking interesting for Tomorrow

hoping for another blue day here at lloy Tomorrow

[diku] 04/2/2021 21:16

Rain rain and more rain...somebody find a vaccine or a chip to stop the rain...