In the UK, the most noteworthy thing we do (apart from that paper lion, BAE) is building wings for Airbus. Not designing - BUILDING. The greatest aero companies are now assembling wings for a French commercial company.
QuoteIn the UK, the most noteworthy thing we do (apart from that paper lion, BAE) is building wings for Airbus. Not designing - BUILDING. The greatest aero companies are now assembling wings for a French commercial company. Erm agree with pretty much everything else you said but my buddy who designed the fuel system for the A380 and spent 10 years getting it right would probably argue that we do a little more in the UK than just build wings. He's now working on the landing gear for the next one at Airbus. Works in Bristol and has done for the last 15 years or so and headed up huge design teams there working on both projects, plus there's all the suppliers, majority UK based who have their own design teams and engineers as well.We think choosing tyres for bikes n cars is tricky - try choosing for a bloody huge plane! :-)
Quote from: ChristoT on 11 April 2013, 10:18:31 amPersonally, the minute I have my degree, I intend to high-tail it across the Atlantic, and get work in an American firm. To quote Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits:"I used to like to go to work but they shut it down I got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found " ~ Telegraph Roadhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd3btVhwr48You were doing so well until you informed us you'd use the resources of this country to enable you to fuck off elsewhere.
Personally, the minute I have my degree, I intend to high-tail it across the Atlantic, and get work in an American firm. To quote Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits:"I used to like to go to work but they shut it down I got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found " ~ Telegraph Roadhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd3btVhwr48
Time to get back to how it should be!
<snip> She may have got some money back, so what, it's bad enough she ignored those she made jobless, homeless and future less without bringing in the sale of everything we already owned back to us and the huge job losses that caused and the sale of social housing without a care for those who had no chance of home ownership. Respect? She didn't know the meaning of the word. Oh yeah and my pensions fucked beacuse of the bitch and I've got to pay for her funeral and be happy about it? I'd offer to buy a gallon of petrol to chuck over her but I can't afford it.
Easier to just expect the state to provide tho, eh? Back when the welfare state was introduced, going on benefits carried great social stigma, it was to be avoided. Now, it's seen, by far too many people, as their right. Time to get back to how it should be!
Quote from: Streetbudgie on 11 April 2013, 12:55:30 pm<snip> She may have got some money back, so what, it's bad enough she ignored those she made jobless, homeless and future less without bringing in the sale of everything we already owned back to us and the huge job losses that caused and the sale of social housing without a care for those who had no chance of home ownership. Respect? She didn't know the meaning of the word. Oh yeah and my pensions fucked beacuse of the bitch and I've got to pay for her funeral and be happy about it? I'd offer to buy a gallon of petrol to chuck over her but I can't afford it.Sounds a bit like the sour grapes of a 'job-for-lifer' to me.Selling BT was a GOOD thing for the country.
Quote from: Chillum on 11 April 2013, 04:21:56 pmQuote from: Streetbudgie on 11 April 2013, 12:55:30 pm<snip> She may have got some money back, so what, it's bad enough she ignored those she made jobless, homeless and future less without bringing in the sale of everything we already owned back to us and the huge job losses that caused and the sale of social housing without a care for those who had no chance of home ownership. Respect? She didn't know the meaning of the word. Oh yeah and my pensions fucked beacuse of the bitch and I've got to pay for her funeral and be happy about it? I'd offer to buy a gallon of petrol to chuck over her but I can't afford it.Sounds a bit like the sour grapes of a 'job-for-lifer' to me.Selling BT was a GOOD thing for the country.It's not sour grapes, it's working hard at an apprenticeship, passing college and going on to take an HND only to find the opportunity that you were promised is now taken away and you can have some shit job working on a poxy exchange and then a few months later be told that the exchange is closing and you are no longer requiredSo fuck off with your presumptions.Selling BT was not a good thing, we already owned it, how would you like it if I took your bike away then offered to sell it back to you?What about selling all the other nationalised industries that provided jobs for UK people? All the privatised industries that were supposed to promote competition and better value for money are charging inflated prices and all that money goes straight out of the UK to their overseas based offices, admin and call centers.
It's possible that part of the reason they bailed out the banks and devalued the pound was because the financial industry currently represents about 43% of our GDP.
British Leyland similar. Poor quality expensive and badly designed when compared to the emerging European and Japanese cars. Failed to innovate and couldn't compete with cheaper and better made cars from abroad.
Oh and I've brought my copy of Ding Dong the Witch is Dead and it's looking good for being number One https://www.facebook.com/groups/2807687628/
Quote from: Razgruff on 11 April 2013, 09:20:58 pmOh and I've brought my copy of Ding Dong the Witch is Dead and it's looking good for being number One https://www.facebook.com/groups/2807687628/As the OP who set the subject of this thread, I had actually no idea that this facebook campaign existed. As much as I'd make myself ill so I could skitter over her final resting(?) place, I can't bring myself to join fuckbook, even if it is for a good cause.Where else can I buy it from?
did you ever read my post TC underinvestment results in
Quote from: Razgruff on 11 April 2013, 09:33:09 pmdid you ever read my post TC underinvestment results inAnd of course the Royal Mail is purposefully being run down and subject to cherry-picking to make it ripe for privatisation. Another momentous private failure, ending of the universal rate and fleecing of the cash-cow public coming to a town near you.