Is the British car industry going to die?

[crystal ball]

What about our nuclear fleet?

 

[Stivino]

Um, all the food the rest of the planet produces...

Britain is a massive producer of food and some of it is the best in the world. We produce mountains of wheat and barley which is used in bread making and beers etc. If we rely on the rest of the planet, where am I going to get Aberdeen Angus, Scotch lamb, Melton Mowbray pies, Cornish Pasties etc?

 

[EFLImpudence]

What's next, bemoaning the loss of the steam engine industry?

If steam engines were still in huge demand, yes.

 

[noseall]

Manufactuing big steel objects is a 19th-20th century anachronism. This is 21st century Britain.

How does bricklaying fit into your modern Britain?
Plastering?
Joinery?
Any other 19/20th century activities you think the British are too modern to endure?

 

[wobs]

Manufactuing big steel objects is a 19th-20th century anachronism. This is 21st century Britain, we should be doing 21st century jobs with 21st century technology. Leave the mining, smelting, dying, harvestings and machining to developing countries.

Plants such as the Nissan site in Sunderland are high tech operations. They make up to date cars with lots of electronics.

According to you, this is just the sort of thing we should be making (and I would agree).

This goes for other major car manufacturers in the UK as well of course. They make modern cars for largely western markets to modern standards.

With Brexit, it will be more difficult to do this (for a clue see the vid on Minford). Not only that, but the just in time production process relies on frictionless borders, so come Brexit, these companies will suffer, as many parts pass multiple times to and from mainland Europe and the UK.

Our manufacturing as a whole has becoming more specialised and / or high tech over the years, as more mundane products are made in China. How do you propose we maintain this high tech sector of the market post Brexit with no-deal?

 

[JP_]

Um, all the food the rest of the planet produces... There are countries out there with farms the size of Wales.

We need to increase agriculture, not reduce it. We produce about 50% of our food at the moment, so already importing a lot. This is going to get more expensive as the pound keeps declining and trade barriers start popping up.

 

[SirGalahad]

Manufactuing big steel objects is a 19th-20th century anachronism. This is 21st century Britain, we should be doing 21st century jobs with 21st century technology. Leave the mining, smelting, dying, harvestings and machining to developing countries.

Weird when the whole of Silicon Valley is investing billions into new electric car tech, just as the industry is shifting you want to shutter it. Typical of a Brexiteer who will work backwards from a position to defend brexit and end up in a ditch.

 

[SirGalahad]

We need to increase agriculture, not reduce it. We produce about 50% of our food at the moment, so already importing a lot. This is going to get more expensive as the pound keeps declining and trade barriers start popping up.

Also reduce food CO2 footprint if we don't have to buy food from halfway around the world.

 

[wobs]

Also reduce food CO2 footprint if we don't have to buy food from halfway around the world.

Unless you are growing it in a greenhouse in the UK, in which case your carbon footprint will be higher. Which is why Brexit could increase the carbon footprint on tomatoes (etc), if we stop importing from Spain, and grow more locally.

I've put this up here before, but is worth repeating:

 

[EddieM]

How does bricklaying fit into your modern Britain?
Plastering?
Joinery?
Any other 19/20th century activities you think the British are too modern to endure?

Soooo last millennia.

 

[noseall]

Soooo last millennia

What a waste of money.

 

[EddieM]

What a waste of money.

Not at all, could easily see robots building new build houses. Not useful for alterations and brickbashing though.

 

[noseall]

Not at all, could easily see robots building new build houses

Lol.
Humans to set up, humans to load with bricks, humans to load with mortar, humans to point, humans to knock all the crooked bricks straight, humans to get the snots off the back.

'Easily' my arse.

 

[EddieM]

Lol.
Humans to set up, humans to load with bricks, humans to load with mortar, humans to point, humans to knock all the crooked bricks straight, humans to get the snots off the back.

'Easily' my arse.

No, none of those human interactions required, plus potential for significant build quality improvement.

The same as what you're saying was said about the car industry many years ago. Robots are leaving the factory.

 

[EddieM]

even make you a nice statue for the garden