Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
Managed to get 70 MPG on the work run this morning, am going to try and keep my diesel running for some years yet
How many people will die as a result
Ask Gordon Brown. I'm sure he must have the numbers on additional particuate deaths. He was the biggest proponent of ramping up diesel ownership by cutting the price as against unleaded.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
The article quoted above is relevant to Philip Collins’ point. Owen Jones may not like it but the far left strand of thought which Corbyn represents provides a very fertile ground for anti-semitism to flourish. It is the Jew as blood-sucking capitalist oppressor strand which flourishes and is intimately linked to this far left view.
It's a measure of Labour's problem with antisemitism and knee-jerk anti-UK/US attitudes that when Dianne Abbott gives WW2 as an example of a conflict where it was legitimate to use force, people feel able to joke "on which side?".
We know that some of Corbyn’s advisors who have been Communists most of their life would have done what Communists did at the time, which was not to fight until 1941, having first allied themselves with the Nazis. So not that much of a joke to wonder on which side people like him and Seamus Milne who still admires Stalin and Corbyn who wanted the total rehabilitation of Trotsky and who has been writing for and reading the Morning star all his life would be. I cannot be certain that they would be on Britain’s side. And I am someone who does not think that Britain should automatically do whatever the US asks of us.
A quarter of Labour Party members think the U.K. is a force for bad in this world.
Well of course! That is Tory foreign policy for you.
Under different management we need not be a force for bad. It is why we need change.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
Yes, it was a major mistake. I wasn't making a partisan point (you were?) FWIW I am hardly an enthusiastic party wallah unlike many of the sycophantics on here.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
Managed to get 70 MPG on the work run this morning, am going to try and keep my diesel running for some years yet
How many people will die as a result
WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
Brilliant how you trivialise an important issue. Diesel pollution is literally killing people. Yet you find the whole topic amusing.
Petrol pollution is also literally killing people, so can you confirm that you never travel by either method nor consume any form of good which has ever been transported by either method? Or are you just a callous MURDERER?
Russia has 'proof' UK behind chemical attack Russia's defence ministry has said it has 'proof that testifies to the direct participation of Britain in the organising of this provocation in Eastern Ghouta'.
Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the UK had told the White Helmets, who act as first responders in rebel-held areas, to fake the suspected chemical attack in the town of Douma.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
Managed to get 70 MPG on the work run this morning, am going to try and keep my diesel running for some years yet
How many people will die as a result
WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
Brilliant how you trivialise an important issue. Diesel pollution is literally killing people. Yet you find the whole topic amusing.
Petrol pollution is also literally killing people, so can you confirm that you never travel by either method nor consume any form of good which has ever been transported by either method? Or are you just a callous MURDERER?
The article quoted above is relevant to Philip Collins’ point. Owen Jones may not like it but the far left strand of thought which Corbyn represents provides a very fertile ground for anti-semitism to flourish. It is the Jew as blood-sucking capitalist oppressor strand which flourishes and is intimately linked to this far left view.
It's a measure of Labour's problem with antisemitism and knee-jerk anti-UK/US attitudes that when Dianne Abbott gives WW2 as an example of a conflict where it was legitimate to use force, people feel able to joke "on which side?".
We know that some of Corbyn’s advisors who have been Communists most of their life would have done what Communists did at the time, which was not to fight until 1941, having first allied themselves with the Nazis. So not that much of a joke to wonder on which side people like him and Seamus Milne who still admires Stalin and Corbyn who wanted the total rehabilitation of Trotsky and who has been writing for and reading the Morning star all his life would be. I cannot be certain that they would be on Britain’s side. And I am someone who does not think that Britain should automatically do whatever the US asks of us.
A quarter of Labour Party members think the U.K. is a force for bad in this world.
Well of course! That is Tory foreign policy for you.
Under different management we need not be a force for bad. It is why we need change.
Clearly you don't subscribe to the "my country, right or wrong" worldview.
The article quoted above is relevant to Philip Collins’ point. Owen Jones may not like it but the far left strand of thought which Corbyn represents provides a very fertile ground for anti-semitism to flourish. It is the Jew as blood-sucking capitalist oppressor strand which flourishes and is intimately linked to this far left view.
It's a measure of Labour's problem with antisemitism and knee-jerk anti-UK/US attitudes that when Dianne Abbott gives WW2 as an example of a conflict where it was legitimate to use force, people feel able to joke "on which side?".
We know that some of Corbyn’s advisors who have been Communists most of their life would have done what Communists did at the time, which was not to fight until 1941, having first allied themselves with the Nazis. So not that much of a joke to wonder on which side people like him and Seamus Milne who still admires Stalin and Corbyn who wanted the total rehabilitation of Trotsky and who has been writing for and reading the Morning star all his life would be. I cannot be certain that they would be on Britain’s side. And I am someone who does not think that Britain should automatically do whatever the US asks of us.
A quarter of Labour Party members think the U.K. is a force for bad in this world.
Well of course! That is Tory foreign policy for you.
Under different management we need not be a force for bad. It is why we need change.
Clearly you don't subscribe to the "my country, right or wrong" worldview.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
The article quoted above is relevant to Philip Collins’ point. Owen Jones may not like it but the far left strand of thought which Corbyn represents provides a very fertile ground for anti-semitism to flourish. It is the Jew as blood-sucking capitalist oppressor strand which flourishes and is intimately linked to this far left view.
It's a measure of Labour's problem with antisemitism and knee-jerk anti-UK/US attitudes that when Dianne Abbott gives WW2 as an example of a conflict where it was legitimate to use force, people feel able to joke "on which side?".
We know that some of Corbyn’s advisors who have been Communists most of their life would have done what Communists did at the time, which was not to fight until 1941, having first allied themselves with the Nazis. So not that much of a joke to wonder on which side people like him and Seamus Milne who still admires Stalin and Corbyn who wanted the total rehabilitation of Trotsky and who has been writing for and reading the Morning star all his life would be. I cannot be certain that they would be on Britain’s side. And I am someone who does not think that Britain should automatically do whatever the US asks of us.
A quarter of Labour Party members think the U.K. is a force for bad in this world.
Well of course! That is Tory foreign policy for you.
Under different management we need not be a force for bad. It is why we need change.
In what way do you think Britain is a force for bad in the world?
And do you think that allying us with Russia will make us a force for good?
The article quoted above is relevant to Philip Collins’ point. Owen Jones may not like it but the far left strand of thought which Corbyn represents provides a very fertile ground for anti-semitism to flourish. It is the Jew as blood-sucking capitalist oppressor strand which flourishes and is intimately linked to this far left view.
It's a measure of Labour's problem with antisemitism and knee-jerk anti-UK/US attitudes that when Dianne Abbott gives WW2 as an example of a conflict where it was legitimate to use force, people feel able to joke "on which side?".
We know that some of Corbyn’s advisors who have been Communists most of their life would have done what Communists did at the time, which was not to fight until 1941, having first allied themselves with the Nazis. So not that much of a joke to wonder on which side people like him and Seamus Milne who still admires Stalin and Corbyn who wanted the total rehabilitation of Trotsky and who has been writing for and reading the Morning star all his life would be. I cannot be certain that they would be on Britain’s side. And I am someone who does not think that Britain should automatically do whatever the US asks of us.
A quarter of Labour Party members think the U.K. is a force for bad in this world.
Well of course! That is Tory foreign policy for you.
Under different management we need not be a force for bad. It is why we need change.
In what way do you think Britain is a force for bad in the world?
And do you think that allying us with Russia will make us a force for good?
I'm more surprised to learn that the Tories under Boris have a foreign policy.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
JLR’s big problem is its sub Eastern Bloc build quality and reliability. They are always bitterly slugging it out with Jeep for the bottom spot on the JD Power survey.
JD Power 2017 Kia and Volvo rank highest in a tie in vehicle dependability among all brands, with a score of 83 Problems per 100 vehicles over up to 3 years. Škoda ranks third with 89 PP100, followed by Suzuki with 92 PP100.
Vauxhall has two models (Insignia and Meriva) that receive segment awards. Škoda Fabia, Peugeot 108, Volvo V40 and Jaguar XF also receive a segment award.
The 2017 UK Vehicle Dependability Study is based on responses from more than 12,000 owners of new vehicles registered from February 2014 through April 2016. The study was fielded from February through April 2017.
The most often reported problem is built-in Bluetooth mobile phone/device frequent pairing/connectivity issues.
I’ve got a Fabia and there are pairing connectivity issues. In particular, sometimes the sound drops out on the satnav.
I have a 2002 Fiesta and no problems with its bluetooth or satnav.
Russia has 'proof' UK behind chemical attack Russia's defence ministry has said it has 'proof that testifies to the direct participation of Britain in the organising of this provocation in Eastern Ghouta'.
Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the UK had told the White Helmets, who act as first responders in rebel-held areas, to fake the suspected chemical attack in the town of Douma.
I am sure we will have the same level of scepticism expressed about this proof by Corbyn and his helpers on here and elsewhere as they’ve shown to the Government’s proof about Russian responsibility for the attack on the Skripals.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
Yes, it was a major mistake. I wasn't making a partisan point (you were?) FWIW I am hardly an enthusiastic party wallah unlike many of the sycophantics on here.
I'd say I'm partisan in that I don't find any of our current Parties particularly appealing!
Always an intelligent line of argument, that, but one of the ground rules is that we abide by the terms of treaties into which we have entered. You may think signing up to the CWC was a mistake
Have only ourselves, the US and France signed up to this ? Why do we have to play "global policeman" at every opportunity ?
As ourselves, the US and France are the permanent Western representatives on the UN Security Council
Ah Good, can you pass me to the passed security council vote/resolution on the matter ?
Well as Russia will obviously veto it there won't be one.
That does not change the fact the US, France and Iraq are the 3 largest western military powers and the 3 western powers with nuclear weapons and thus will lead any western military action in most cases
Iraq? The fake news from you gets ever more audacious.
I said most of the time.
Apart from Iraq 2003, the US, UK and France were all involved in the Gulf War, the Afghanistan War, air strikes in Kosovo, air strikes on Libya and air strikes on ISIS as well as strikes on Assad to come
"That does not change the fact the US, France and UK are the 3 largest western military powers"
Iraq?
Clearly you have not bothered to read a word I just wrote but as I pointed out beyond Iraq 2003 all 3 powers were involved in 5 out of 6 of the major western interventions since 1990 and will likely be involved together in action against Assad
"That does not change the fact the US, France and ***IRAQ*** are the 3 largest western military powers"
I said US, France and UK originally, you then effectively ceased your argument
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
Managed to get 70 MPG on the work run this morning, am going to try and keep my diesel running for some years yet
How many people will die as a result
Ask Gordon Brown. I'm sure he must have the numbers on additional particuate deaths. He was the biggest proponent of ramping up diesel ownership by cutting the price as against unleaded.
Don't worry - they had EU regulations covering emissions - not sure how we will cope after Brexit.
Always an intelligent line of argument, that, but one of the ground rules is that we abide by the terms of treaties into which we have entered. You may think signing up to the CWC was a mistake
Have only ourselves, the US and France signed up to this ? Why do we have to play "global policeman" at every opportunity ?
As ourselves, the US and France are the permanent Western representatives on the UN Security Council
Ah Good, can you pass me to the passed security council vote/resolution on the matter ?
Well as Russia will obviously veto it there won't be one.
That does not change the fact the US, France and Iraq are the 3 largest western military powers and the 3 western powers with nuclear weapons and thus will lead any western military action in most cases
Iraq? The fake news from you gets ever more audacious.
I said most of the time.
Apart from Iraq 2003, the US, UK and France were all involved in the Gulf War, the Afghanistan War, air strikes in Kosovo, air strikes on Libya and air strikes on ISIS as well as strikes on Assad to come
"That does not change the fact the US, France and Iraq are the 3 largest western military powers"
Iraq?
Clearly you have not bothered to read a word I just wrote but as I pointed out beyond Iraq 2003 all 3 powers were involved in 5 out of 6 of the major western interventions since 1990 and will likely be involved together in action against Assad
"That does not change the fact the US, France and ***IRAQ*** are the 3 largest western military powers"
In terms of ability to deploy armed forces overseas, air and sea power, quality of special forces and possession of nuclear weapons and not being in the West Iraq is of course not one of the 3 largest western military powers
An admission of an error? Has interface with the Epping electorate led to a more humble HYUFD??
Head of British Armed forces on Sky said it was more than possible a set up.They cut him off quick
Former Head....no guesses for what the latest tweet / article from the Skwawkbox is...and of course "Dr" Eoin is still pushing all the conspiracy theories.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
Yes, it was a major mistake. I wasn't making a partisan point (you were?) FWIW I am hardly an enthusiastic party wallah unlike many of the sycophantics on here.
I'd say I'm partisan in that I don't find any of our current Parties particularly appealing!
Always an intelligent line of argument, that, but one of the ground rules is that we abide by the terms of treaties into which we have entered. You may think signing up to the CWC was a mistake
Have only ourselves, the US and France signed up to this ? Why do we have to play "global policeman" at every opportunity ?
As ourselves, the US and France are the permanent Western representatives on the UN Security Council
Ah Good, can you pass me to the passed security council vote/resolution on the matter ?
Well as Russia will obviously veto it there won't be one.
That does not change the fact the US, France and Iraq are the 3 largest western military powers and the 3 western powers with nuclear weapons and thus will lead any western military action in most cases
Iraq? The fake news from you gets ever more audacious.
I said most of the time.
Apart from Iraq 2003, the US, UK and France were all involved in the Gulf War, the Afghanistan War, air strikes in Kosovo, air strikes on Libya and air strikes on ISIS as well as strikes on Assad to come
"That does not change the fact the US, France and UK are the 3 largest western military powers"
Iraq?
Clearly you have not bothered to read a word I just wrote but as I pointed out beyond Iraq 2003 all 3 powers were involved in 5 out of 6 of the major western interventions since 1990 and will likely be involved together in action against Assad
"That does not change the fact the US, France and ***IRAQ*** are the 3 largest western military powers"
In terms of ability to deploy armed forces overseas, air and sea power, quality of special forces and possession of nuclear weapons and not being in the West Iraq is of course not one of the 3 largest western military powers
An admission of an error?
If you want to accept that almost all western military interventions involve the UK, France and the USA fine
Russia has 'proof' UK behind chemical attack Russia's defence ministry has said it has 'proof that testifies to the direct participation of Britain in the organising of this provocation in Eastern Ghouta'.
Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the UK had told the White Helmets, who act as first responders in rebel-held areas, to fake the suspected chemical attack in the town of Douma.
I am sure we will have the same level of scepticism expressed about this proof by Corbyn and his helpers on here and elsewhere as they’ve shown to the Government’s proof about Russian responsibility for the attack on the Skripals.
The article quoted above is relevant to Philip Collins’ point. Owen Jones may not like it but the far left strand of thought which Corbyn represents provides a very fertile ground for anti-semitism to flourish. It is the Jew as blood-sucking capitalist oppressor strand which flourishes and is intimately linked to this far left view.
It's a measure of Labour's problem with antisemitism and knee-jerk anti-UK/US attitudes that when Dianne Abbott gives WW2 as an example of a conflict where it was legitimate to use force, people feel able to joke "on which side?".
We know that some of Corbyn’s advisors who have been Communists most of their life would have done what Communists did at the time, which was not to fight until 1941, having first allied themselves with the Nazis. So not that much of a joke to wonder on which side people like him and Seamus Milne who still admires Stalin and Corbyn who wanted the total rehabilitation of Trotsky and who has been writing for and reading the Morning star all his life would be. I cannot be certain that they would be on Britain’s side. And I am someone who does not think that Britain should automatically do whatever the US asks of us.
A quarter of Labour Party members think the U.K. is a force for bad in this world.
Well of course! That is Tory foreign policy for you.
Under different management we need not be a force for bad. It is why we need change.
In what way do you think Britain is a force for bad in the world?
And do you think that allying us with Russia will make us a force for good?
In general, I'd say that most wealthy democracies are a force for good, if only because they set an example that others can follow.
Russia has 'proof' UK behind chemical attack Russia's defence ministry has said it has 'proof that testifies to the direct participation of Britain in the organising of this provocation in Eastern Ghouta'.
Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the UK had told the White Helmets, who act as first responders in rebel-held areas, to fake the suspected chemical attack in the town of Douma.
I am sure we will have the same level of scepticism expressed about this proof by Corbyn and his helpers on here and elsewhere as they’ve shown to the Government’s proof about Russian responsibility for the attack on the Skripals.
Head of British Armed forces on Sky said it was more than possible a set up.They cut him off quick
Former Head....no guesses for what the latest tweet / article from the Skwawkbox is...and of course "Dr" Eoin is still pushing all the conspiracy theories.
Justified outrage from Iain Martin, although I think the target of his anger is wrong. It should be the government, not the Home Office. The issue is defined and historical. It requires legislation that I think should be simple. Government refusal to engage on this is stupid and callous.
Head of British Armed forces on Sky said it was more than possible a set up.They cut him off quick
Former Head....no guesses for what the latest tweet / article from the Skwawkbox is...and of course "Dr" Eoin is still pushing all the conspiracy theories.
You on there again. I think you have a problem.
I am not the one drinking the KoolAid, believing all their Alex Jones inspired conspiracy theories they pump out every day.
Russia has 'proof' UK behind chemical attack Russia's defence ministry has said it has 'proof that testifies to the direct participation of Britain in the organising of this provocation in Eastern Ghouta'.
Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the UK had told the White Helmets, who act as first responders in rebel-held areas, to fake the suspected chemical attack in the town of Douma.
I have been doing some experiments looking at seats over time. In the US, they assign states a partisan lean based on comparing the national vote to the vote in that state. So if the Reps win nationally by 2% but by 20% in Alaska then Alaska is R+18. I've done a similar exercise where I have picked Lab-Con seats, which have had minimal boundary changes and looked at them over time.
First 3 seats in the big cities that have seen a massive swing to Lab:
There are also have a few, which have hardly changed. Calder Valley looks like a good national bellweather
Year Bedford Calder Valley 1992 Even 1997 L+4 C+2 2001 L+6 C+2 2005 L+5 Even 2010 L+4 C+5 2015 L+5 C+1 2017 L+4 L+1
Another seat that looks interesting is Chingford, which was rock solid during the Blair years but has swung rapidly to the Labour in the last 7 (apparently Labour voters from Hackney and Islington are moving in as the houses are cheaper)
Russia has 'proof' UK behind chemical attack Russia's defence ministry has said it has 'proof that testifies to the direct participation of Britain in the organising of this provocation in Eastern Ghouta'.
Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the UK had told the White Helmets, who act as first responders in rebel-held areas, to fake the suspected chemical attack in the town of Douma.
From the BBC East of England website A commuter who sued a train firm over delays has received compensation after a court threatened to send in bailiffs to seize its assets.
Guy sent a claim to Greater Anglia; they ignored him. He went to the Small Claims Court; they told GA there would be a hearning. they didn’t turn up so the Court found for him. They ignored it, so they sent in the bailiffs.
Result. GA paid his claim plus, of course, costs. Someone who deals with complaints at GA deserves a kicking, or their manager does.
Bashar al-Assad must be met with a 'robust, united and steadfast response' following the suspected chemical weapons attack last week, France's ambassador to the UN has said.
Francois Delattre told the Security Council the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons had 'reached a point of no return' and that France 'will shoulder its responsibility to end an intolerable threat to our collective security'.
So either bullshit from May and Trump or barefaced lying from the Russians. As the Russians have visited the site and are bound to be found out if they're lying-and as early as tomorrow-added to the painful truth that both the US and UK have form in dubious intelligence the odds are on egg on faces we'd rather not see it on.
I have been doing some experiments looking at seats over time. In the US, they assign states a partisan lean based on comparing the national vote to the vote in that state. So if the Reps win nationally by 2% but by 20% in Alaska then Alaska is R+18. I've done a similar exercise where I have picked Lab-Con seats, which have had minimal boundary changes and looked at them over time.
First 3 seats in the big cities that have seen a massive swing to Lab:
There are also have a few, which have hardly changed. Calder Valley looks like a good national bellweather
Year Bedford Calder Valley 1992 Even 1997 L+4 C+2 2001 L+6 C+2 2005 L+5 Even 2010 L+4 C+5 2015 L+5 C+1 2017 L+4 L+1
Another seat that looks interesting is Chingford, which was rock solid during the Blair years but has swung rapidly to the Labour in the last 7 (apparently Labour voters from Hackney and Islington are moving in as the houses are cheaper)
If the demographic changes continue then seats like Newcastle-U-L and Chingford could flip in 2022 even if there is a similar overall result to 2017.
Interesting. Thanks.
Can you explain the win nationally bit though? e.g. Labour were -2% off winning in 2017 (give or take), so is the Edmonton +50 actually showing -2 + 52 = +50?
So either bullshit from May and Trump or barefaced lying from the Russians. As the Russians have visited the site and are bound to be found out if they're lying-and as early as tomorrow-added to the painful truth that both the US and UK have form in dubious intelligence the odds are on egg on faces we'd rather not see it on.
From the BBC East of England website A commuter who sued a train firm over delays has received compensation after a court threatened to send in bailiffs to seize its assets.
Guy sent a claim to Greater Anglia; they ignored him. He went to the Small Claims Court; they told GA there would be a hearning. they didn’t turn up so the Court found for him. They ignored it, so they sent in the bailiffs.
Result. GA paid his claim plus, of course, costs. Someone who deals with complaints at GA deserves a kicking, or their manager does.
write to Abelio's owners,address,Tweede Kamer,Netherlands.
So either bullshit from May and Trump or barefaced lying from the Russians. As the Russians have visited the site and are bound to be found out if they're lying-and as early as tomorrow-added to the painful truth that both the US and UK have form in dubious intelligence the odds are on egg on faces we'd rather not see it on.
Mr. Roger, the Russians have had control of the site for some time. Be interesting to see if they've left anything there.
Got to say, I'm liking the BBC's coverage of Russia far more than Sky or ITV. Sky, around lunchtime, was leading with 'Corbyn laying into the Government over Syria [waiting for Donald Trump's instructions or suchlike]'. The BBC led with the situation and how it might develop rather than trotting out the useful idiot's spin lines.
Russia has 'proof' UK behind chemical attack Russia's defence ministry has said it has 'proof that testifies to the direct participation of Britain in the organising of this provocation in Eastern Ghouta'.
Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the UK had told the White Helmets, who act as first responders in rebel-held areas, to fake the suspected chemical attack in the town of Douma.
I have been doing some experiments looking at seats over time. In the US, they assign states a partisan lean based on comparing the national vote to the vote in that state. So if the Reps win nationally by 2% but by 20% in Alaska then Alaska is R+18. I've done a similar exercise where I have picked Lab-Con seats, which have had minimal boundary changes and looked at them over time.
First 3 seats in the big cities that have seen a massive swing to Lab:
There are also have a few, which have hardly changed. Calder Valley looks like a good national bellweather
Year Bedford Calder Valley 1992 Even 1997 L+4 C+2 2001 L+6 C+2 2005 L+5 Even 2010 L+4 C+5 2015 L+5 C+1 2017 L+4 L+1
Another seat that looks interesting is Chingford, which was rock solid during the Blair years but has swung rapidly to the Labour in the last 7 (apparently Labour voters from Hackney and Islington are moving in as the houses are cheaper)
So either bullshit from May and Trump or barefaced lying from the Russians. As the Russians have visited the site and are bound to be found out if they're lying-and as early as tomorrow-added to the painful truth that both the US and UK have form in dubious intelligence the odds are on egg on faces we'd rather not see it on.
How odd that you didn't mention Macron.
Our Rog only hates the English-unless they live in London or the EU.
A businessman fighting for the "right to be forgotten" has won a UK High Court action against Google.
The man, who has not been named due to reporting restrictions surrounding the case, wanted search results about a past crime he had committed removed from the search engine. The judge, Mr Justice Mark Warby, ruled in his favour on Friday.
But he rejected a separate claim made by another businessman who had committed a more serious crime.
The businessman who won his case was convicted 10 years ago of conspiring to intercept communications. He spent six months in jail.
The other businessman, who lost his case, was convicted more than 10 years ago of conspiring to account falsely. He spent four years in jail.
I have been doing some experiments looking at seats over time. In the US, they assign states a partisan lean based on comparing the national vote to the vote in that state. So if the Reps win nationally by 2% but by 20% in Alaska then Alaska is R+18. I've done a similar exercise where I have picked Lab-Con seats, which have had minimal boundary changes and looked at them over time.
First 3 seats in the big cities that have seen a massive swing to Lab:
There are also have a few, which have hardly changed. Calder Valley looks like a good national bellweather
Year Bedford Calder Valley 1992 Even 1997 L+4 C+2 2001 L+6 C+2 2005 L+5 Even 2010 L+4 C+5 2015 L+5 C+1 2017 L+4 L+1
Another seat that looks interesting is Chingford, which was rock solid during the Blair years but has swung rapidly to the Labour in the last 7 (apparently Labour voters from Hackney and Islington are moving in as the houses are cheaper)
Corbyn will still agree with Moscow that MI6 did it, and that the British are just briefing him the “official version” to cover their own tracks.
They could show him a video of Putin briefing the agent in his office, then the same agent appearing on cctv laying the nerve agent and Jezza would claim it was a mis-translation and the agent wasn't actually delivering the nerve agent, he was checking to see what the British secret agents had planted.
Justified outrage from Iain Martin, although I think the target of his anger is wrong. It should be the government, not the Home Office. The issue is defined and historical. It requires legislation that I think should be simple. Government refusal to engage on this is stupid and callous.
So either bullshit from May and Trump or barefaced lying from the Russians. As the Russians have visited the site and are bound to be found out if they're lying-and as early as tomorrow-added to the painful truth that both the US and UK have form in dubious intelligence the odds are on egg on faces we'd rather not see it on.
Really Roger
Russia has no form?
Please engage brain before typing
Having engaged brain I ask myself in whose interest would it be to enrage the most powerful nations on earth for no gain whatsoever? And the uncomfortable truth is that the only gainers are the rebels who get the Western powers to bomb Assad.
It really is like something out of InfoWars. And just like the Trump / Russian bots, twitter is flooded with Corbyn outriders acting as useful idiots spreading all the conspiracy theories.
A businessman fighting for the "right to be forgotten" has won a UK High Court action against Google.
The man, who has not been named due to reporting restrictions surrounding the case, wanted search results about a past crime he had committed removed from the search engine. The judge, Mr Justice Mark Warby, ruled in his favour on Friday.
But he rejected a separate claim made by another businessman who had committed a more serious crime.
The businessman who won his case was convicted 10 years ago of conspiring to intercept communications. He spent six months in jail.
The other businessman, who lost his case, was convicted more than 10 years ago of conspiring to account falsely. He spent four years in jail.
Just been reading about this one, there’s older reports on the case around from before the reporting restrictions. The key to the successful appeal is that his conviction is legally spent under the rehabilitation of offenders act, whereas that doesn’t apply to the more serious conviction. Quite difficult to work out where to draw the line in an age of ubiquitous availability of information, don’t envy those judges and policy makers charged with making sense of it all.
Justified outrage from Iain Martin, although I think the target of his anger is wrong. It should be the government, not the Home Office. The issue is defined and historical. It requires legislation that I think should be simple. Government refusal to engage on this is stupid and callous.
Justified outrage from Iain Martin, although I think the target of his anger is wrong. It should be the government, not the Home Office. The issue is defined and historical. It requires legislation that I think should be simple. Government refusal to engage on this is stupid and callous.
Jaguar Land Rover is to cut 1,000 jobs in the west Midlands, blaming a slump in car sales due to uncertainty over Brexit and the future of diesel vehicles.
Britain’s biggest carmaker will cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull. The factory employs 10,000 workers, including 2,000 contract staff.
That blame could be 1% Brexit and 99% because they make diesels....
Professor of industry, David Bailey, from Aston University, said: "With the big turn against diesel engines, Jaguar Land Rover is particularly exposed as more than 90% of its UK sales are diesels.
Given how unpopular diesels are, it's a bit like trying to sell a car with claims that it has been personally detailed by members of the FSB.
Diesel cars are finished. Diesel buses and light vans wont be far behind.
Uk : Oct 2015 diesel cars were 52% of new sales, now 32%.
A day full of ironies. Labour adamant we shouldn't be going in to Syria to protest the chemical weapons attack, when their policy on promoting diesel vehicles released such a tonnage of chemicals into our ow atmosphere that it makes the death toll in Syria look puny.
And the same Jew-hating Party getting all excited about the fiftieth anniversary of Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech....
A day full of ironies. Labour adamant we shouldn't be going in to Syria to protest the chemical weapons attack, when their policy on promoting diesel vehicles released such a tonnage of chemicals into our ow atmosphere that it makes the death toll in Syria look puny.
And the same Jew-hating Party getting all excited about the fiftieth anniversary of Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech....
Windrush/recent immigrants = weak/need saving Jews = strong/oppressors of the people.
I have been doing some experiments looking at seats over time. In the US, they assign states a partisan lean based on comparing the national vote to the vote in that state. So if the Reps win nationally by 2% but by 20% in Alaska then Alaska is R+18. I've done a similar exercise where I have picked Lab-Con seats, which have had minimal boundary changes and looked at them over time.
First 3 seats in the big cities that have seen a massive swing to Lab:
There are also have a few, which have hardly changed. Calder Valley looks like a good national bellweather
Year Bedford Calder Valley 1992 Even 1997 L+4 C+2 2001 L+6 C+2 2005 L+5 Even 2010 L+4 C+5 2015 L+5 C+1 2017 L+4 L+1
Another seat that looks interesting is Chingford, which was rock solid during the Blair years but has swung rapidly to the Labour in the last 7 (apparently Labour voters from Hackney and Islington are moving in as the houses are cheaper)
If the demographic changes continue then seats like Newcastle-U-L and Chingford could flip in 2022 even if there is a similar overall result to 2017.
Interesting. Thanks.
Can you explain the win nationally bit though? e.g. Labour were -2% off winning in 2017 (give or take), so is the Edmonton +50 actually showing -2 + 52 = +50?
Labour were 48% ahead of Con in Edmonton and 2% behind nationally so Edmonton is 50 percentage points more Labour than the nation
I have been doing some experiments looking at seats over time. In the US, they assign states a partisan lean based on comparing the national vote to the vote in that state. So if the Reps win nationally by 2% but by 20% in Alaska then Alaska is R+18. I've done a similar exercise where I have picked Lab-Con seats, which have had minimal boundary changes and looked at them over time.
First 3 seats in the big cities that have seen a massive swing to Lab:
There are also have a few, which have hardly changed. Calder Valley looks like a good national bellweather
Year Bedford Calder Valley 1992 Even 1997 L+4 C+2 2001 L+6 C+2 2005 L+5 Even 2010 L+4 C+5 2015 L+5 C+1 2017 L+4 L+1
Another seat that looks interesting is Chingford, which was rock solid during the Blair years but has swung rapidly to the Labour in the last 7 (apparently Labour voters from Hackney and Islington are moving in as the houses are cheaper)
If the demographic changes continue then seats like Newcastle-U-L and Chingford could flip in 2022 even if there is a similar overall result to 2017.
Great analysis! It would be great to see in spreadsheet form, thouhh as next election is on different boundaries possibly shortly obselete.
I'm still experimenting at the moment. It might be possible to take the boundary changes into account. For example, Newcastle-U-L is currently L+2. The boundary changes are expected to flip it to Con and make it C+3. If demographic change continues at the same rate then that would make it C+8 by 2022. So In that case the Cons could win the seat even if they were 7 points behind nationally.
So either bullshit from May and Trump or barefaced lying from the Russians. As the Russians have visited the site and are bound to be found out if they're lying-and as early as tomorrow-added to the painful truth that both the US and UK have form in dubious intelligence the odds are on egg on faces we'd rather not see it on.
I hope for your sake that you are making a very poor joke.
Comments
Just turned on and find myself screaming at tv
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/01/uk-government-wrong-to-subsidise-diesel-says-former-minister
ducks and covers
Russia's defence ministry has said it has 'proof that testifies to the direct participation of Britain in the organising of this provocation in Eastern Ghouta'.
Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the UK had told the White Helmets, who act as first responders in rebel-held areas, to fake the suspected chemical attack in the town of Douma.
And do you think that allying us with Russia will make us a force for good?
The tape player works fine too.
Or perhaps not......
F1: my pre-qualifying ramble, including a tip, is up here: http://enormo-haddock.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/china-pre-qualifying-2018.html
https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/984808846559531008
https://twitter.com/iainmartin1/status/984785250885750784
First 3 seats in the big cities that have seen a massive swing to Lab:
Year Edmonton Leeds NE B. Edgbaston
1992 L+7 C+1 C+3
1997 L+17 L+2 C+3
2001 L+19 L+9 L+3
2005 L+20 L+10 L+3
2010 L+31 L+17 L+10
2015 L+44 L+22 L+14
2017 L+50 L+34 L+18
Next 3 seats that have swung the other way
Year Cannock Harlow Newcastle-U-Lyme
1992 L+11 L+3 L+26
1997 L+15 L+9 L+22
2001 L+18 L+4 L+17
2005 L+18 C+3 L+17
2010 Even C+4 L+11
2015 C+4 C+12 L+9
2017 C+16 C+14 L+2
There are also have a few, which have hardly changed. Calder Valley looks like a good national bellweather
Year Bedford Calder Valley
1992 Even
1997 L+4 C+2
2001 L+6 C+2
2005 L+5 Even
2010 L+4 C+5
2015 L+5 C+1
2017 L+4 L+1
Another seat that looks interesting is Chingford, which was rock solid during the Blair years but has swung rapidly to the Labour in the last 7 (apparently Labour voters from Hackney and Islington are moving in as the houses are cheaper)
Chingford
1997 C+26
2001 C+24
2005 C+25
2010 C+23
2015 C+12
2017 C+3
If the demographic changes continue then seats like Newcastle-U-L and Chingford could flip in 2022 even if there is a similar overall result to 2017.
A commuter who sued a train firm over delays has received compensation after a court threatened to send in bailiffs to seize its assets.
Guy sent a claim to Greater Anglia; they ignored him. He went to the Small Claims Court; they told GA there would be a hearning. they didn’t turn up so the Court found for him. They ignored it, so they sent in the bailiffs.
Result. GA paid his claim plus, of course, costs. Someone who deals with complaints at GA deserves a kicking, or their manager does.
The other guy said it was without doubt the Syrians
He mentioned lots of other occurrences which "Peter" really didn't want to engage on
Francois Delattre told the Security Council the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons had 'reached a point of no return' and that France 'will shoulder its responsibility to end an intolerable threat to our collective security'.
Do you think we set up the Syria chemical attack as Russia now claims
You know the one they claim never happened.
Can you explain the win nationally bit though? e.g. Labour were -2% off winning in 2017 (give or take), so is the Edmonton +50 actually showing -2 + 52 = +50?
Russia has no form?
Please engage brain before typing
Stand by for leaks.
Got to say, I'm liking the BBC's coverage of Russia far more than Sky or ITV. Sky, around lunchtime, was leading with 'Corbyn laying into the Government over Syria [waiting for Donald Trump's instructions or suchlike]'. The BBC led with the situation and how it might develop rather than trotting out the useful idiot's spin lines.
Wouldn't surprise me if a few pages accidentally got missed out when they were doing the photocopying.
Why do you think this fmr head of British Armed Forces is wrong to raise the possibility
https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-corbyn-demands-us-and-russia-stop-blocking-each-other-at-un-to-end-syria-deadlock-11329083
Google loses 'right to be forgotten' case
A businessman fighting for the "right to be forgotten" has won a UK High Court action against Google.
The man, who has not been named due to reporting restrictions surrounding the case, wanted search results about a past crime he had committed removed from the search engine. The judge, Mr Justice Mark Warby, ruled in his favour on Friday.
But he rejected a separate claim made by another businessman who had committed a more serious crime.
The businessman who won his case was convicted 10 years ago of conspiring to intercept communications. He spent six months in jail.
The other businessman, who lost his case, was convicted more than 10 years ago of conspiring to account falsely. He spent four years in jail.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43752344
I will have a look if it could be done for all seats (boundary changes will be a problem though).
Enoch would have loved the "If they're Black, send them back" approach, but I would have thought that even this Tory government would be ashamed.
It's just as simple as that.
Oh yes and they've also got form.
Jezza has merely been unconvinced who did it, not attributed it to Mi6!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5612915/Corbyn-wont-say-believes-Assad-chemical-atrocity.html
It really is like something out of InfoWars. And just like the Trump / Russian bots, twitter is flooded with Corbyn outriders acting as useful idiots spreading all the conspiracy theories.
Like Mr Corbyn on Syria, we are effectively holding people to an evidential - not a legal - status they can't hope to attain.
Everyone knows it was the lizards.
On the other hand, he will declare UK politiicans war criminals based on thin evidence.
And the same Jew-hating Party getting all excited about the fiftieth anniversary of Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech....
Jews = strong/oppressors of the people.
a) the Novichok poisoning in Salisbury and
b) complicity with the Assad regime in chemical weapons attacks in Syria....
See which way Corbyn goes then.