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[ladeside] 18/2/2019 16:34

The car industry generally is struggling for one reason and that's because cars have become hugely overpriced.

Granted, for us in the UK the 30%+ increase over the past few years is without doubt due to Brexit and the weakening of sterling.

That I'm afraid is a fact...........

[poikka] 18/2/2019 16:32

Been thinking about it, from what jacko writes, vegans must be mightily adding to global warming - in the gym, at least.

I know why minerve wants to "leave it at that", cos he's a tart and tarts farts can be pretty gross - biological fact.

Just wait until the oil price really shoots up, then Honda will have had a rethink about Swindon. Of course, they could build in France and get stuck with the French unions flexible working practices. Just another thought from the thought machine.

Why 1922? Must read the article.

[k38] 18/2/2019 16:30

Nothing to do with Brexit, Some remainers idiots using Brexit as an excuse but make no mistake, this is the end to this industry as we knew it.Change or die !!Car manufacturers are facing a generational change, or they will not survive. Better engines, higher fuel consumption, accelerating to 100km/h more quickly – these are concerns of yesterday.. and the current luxury brands will struggle. China is going massively for electric vehicles. Make no mistake – China will drive the market and somewhere between 2030 and 2040.

[bargainbob] 18/2/2019 16:17

i think it is . after all who eats the most grass stonedyou or sheep. with a handle like that who smokes the most ?

PS apparently it was the only garden without a gate in the street lol

[pooroldboy55] 18/2/2019 16:08

So when GM Close 5 factory's in the US do we blame Brexit?

[polar fox] 18/2/2019 15:47

The local MP for N.Swindon, who is at the DWP, says that the news has leaked before the employees could be informed. What a shambles. Also that production will actually end in 2021, thereafter the plant will be closed.

He denies that Brexit is to blame, but he would say that, wouldn't he - his boss is Amber Rudd and she is second only to TM in the lying stakes.

[excell1] 18/2/2019 15:41

With all this Vegan talk Bob do you consider the above picture of a herd of sheep appropriate :)

[k38] 18/2/2019 15:36

She's been advised by family solicitor to look and sound more.. apologetic.In other words., to lie about her feelings and believes.

[patientcapital] 18/2/2019 15:09

Sky:"While factors other than Brexit are said to have contributed to Honda's decision, the timing of its announcement is likely to be viewed as an incendiary development with a no-deal Brexit potentially just under six weeks away."

[freddie01] 18/2/2019 15:07

UK throwing away £13bn of food each year, latest figures show

Waste and recycling advisory body says 4.4m tonnes of household food waste thrown away in 2015 could have been eaten

[polar fox] 18/2/2019 15:05

You're correct, Maxk, Brexit is expected to be named as a factor - BBC.

[ladeside] 18/2/2019 14:57

No, we can't blame Brexit for anything as it's having absolutely no effect on decision making.

Of course everyone is happy with the uncertainty and the inability to plan for the future not to mention the cost of time and money spending on contingencies, but No, it's nothing to do with Brexit............

[jacko07] 18/2/2019 14:41

Min..how do I know a vegan's fart smells horrible, reeks a pungent aroma.

I happened to at one time use a Gym where a group of young female Vegans used to work out regularly. When any one of them exerted energy and I was in the vicinity, I could hear a blast of a thunderous fart, or a death rattler would blow which sounded like an old BSA Bantam at full throttle.

It was punishment do be down wind of them, many a complaint was made after the funny wore off.

Take my word for it, not nice!!

[maxk] 18/2/2019 14:31

Very bad news re Honda.

No doubt brexit will get the blame for the world slowdown in vehicle demand.

[ak47high] 18/2/2019 14:23

Breaking....Japanese carmaker Honda set to announce closure of Swindon plant in 2022, putting 3,500 jobs at risk, sources say.

[jacko07] 18/2/2019 14:22

If the population continues to grow we will need to become vegetarians to survive. Meat consumption is unsustainable. But let us leave it like that shall we? There are enough bananas in the cage already.

More gems of the world according to the board's leading authority on vegetables.

Minerve has no brain, just a Turnip between his ears

[ak47high] 18/2/2019 14:21

Vegans can't wait to tell others they are vegan, it's like they have been brainwashed.

[minerve] 18/2/2019 13:58

If the population continues to grow we will need to become vegetarians to survive. Meat consumption is unsustainable. But let us leave it like that shall we? There are enough bananas in the cage already.

[maxk] 18/2/2019 13:30

Soylent Green

[shy tott] 18/2/2019 13:27

There's quiet a few ex-vegans who now admit their veganism was a convenient way of hiding their various eating disorders.


My point about humans being forced vegans at some time in the future is from arguments I've read (so they're not my arguments, I don't know the facts at all). It seems reasonable to me that if the growth in human population exceeds the growth in the capacity of the earth to supply food, then inefficient, indirect food (that is, meat) will eventually be eliminated (else we'd starve). Hence, at some stage in the future if we carry on as we are, then we'll all be forced vegies.

[grahamite2] 18/2/2019 13:14

We shouldn't be too hard on vegetarians. They are mentally ill, not evil.

[k38] 18/2/2019 12:54

Imagine if we all became vegans.. All these animals we keep they will all disappear from this earth as they can't live in the wilderness. From one extreme to the other.

[shy tott] 18/2/2019 12:46

Rare T bone for me, cooked in a Josper oven. Going for one tonight as it happens. We've cut down on meat a lot, and have a small amount of the really good stuff. We have quite a few vegie meals - can't say I miss meat when we do. I suppose in 50 years we'll all be forced vegies anyway.