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It was acknowledged a little while ago that there would be no changes due to Brexit. Although overseen by the EU now, the origins of our interconnects were national agreements, starting with that between the UK and French governments. The EU has a tentative ambition for a Europe wide grid, but...

None at all, the interconnects, shared usage and wholesale euro pricing remain the same. Ours is priced at 52 euros per megawatt. .

The EU is probably pretending not to notice since the two operations I mentioned are largely carried out in Africa and Brazil respectively. Mind you, I do like the EU keeping an eye on things, since our own governments have been as bad as that as much else they do. .

Indeed, as I've already posted, it's gone to Japan since the sales here are too poor to justify it being made here. It won't make much difference anyway, this compact 4 x 4 sector is fiercely competitive and Nissan's X-Trail in mark 1 and 2 forms haven't sold in large numbers. Rivals from...

Our foods have all sort of horrors in their preparation. Take a can of tangerine segments, this is how they are produced: First the fruit are blasted with superheated steam to jellify the peel and make it fall off. Then the inner fruit is dumped into a hydrochloric acid bath to dissolve the...

While I agree with you on market forces of course, there is another factor which will influence politicians. The maintenance of a large and healthy active domestic farming sector is an essential component of our defence strategy, and a reason for subsidies to be applied if necessary. Like me...

This is all very true. The whole car market has been destabilised and made confusing, making potential customers very unsure. There's dieselgate making many unwilling to go that route, but what else to choose? There's straight petrol, turbo petrol, supercharged petrol, even combined turbo and...

True, but I think without oranges we'd still be hard pushed not to get enough vitamin C. I lived through the seven year WW2 and we didn't have oranges or other citrus fruit for about 8 years or so, but none of us suffered rickets. Potatoes and other veg, plus the occasional home grown fruits...

We don't need oranges anyway, the good old British grown potato has some 40% of the vitamin C of oranges. Since we eat far more spuds than oranges we aren't going to go short of vitamin C, and it's in all other fruits and veg as well. .

I've previously posted that any transit delays and/or tariffs will mean the loss of all our motor manufacturing to mainland Europe, Nissan included. It's not part of the X-Trail decision though, that's joining the current production in Japan since it just isn't selling well enough in Europe to...

That sums up the position. The ill effects on Nissan to date have been dieselgate and an associated reaction against 4 x 4s and I'm sure that's been the big factor in the 4 x 4 X-Trail decision, the possible Brexit effect being as Nissan say, not helping. The future decisions on the new...

Yes, and to give further information: The present X Trail is built at Sunderland but in very low numbers now due to dieselgate, so that is influencing the decision to abandon plans to build the new model there. If that could have been successful it would be an addition, but dieselgate makes...

Oi! not me, you were replying to KudosDave! Link to post .

There's an element of dieselgate in this, it's not all Brexit. Basically, after Nissan had received some sort of guarantee from the government, they announced that they would plan to build the new X-Trail version at Sunderland, in addition to the Qashqai, Micra and Leaf models that are...

That should upset the Germans. Add all the episodes of 'Allo, 'Allo and you'll upset the Germans, French and Italians all in one go! To upset the Spanish you'll also need Fawlty Towers episodes. .

Having experenced it, that French rudeness is common, but he has the right to stay, no matter how long or short he's been there That is simply not true. Any EU citizen who has been here less than five years has no automatic right to stay. Even those here over five years will have to produce...

They have done, see OG's response above. In fact the EU responded first with guarantees on our peoples security in their countries, it was the UK which was unwilling to reciprocate, and still is. For example charging a hefty registration fee for EU nationals here to be able to stay. We've now...

But as simplistic as ever. He always does this, making something look like a simple solution when it isnt. What he's suggesting is just kicking the can down the road for two years, then landing us back at today. Once is enough thanks, I don't want this dispute all over again in two years...

I think it will be as much Tory failures as his own effort to put him into power. The Tories do seem to trying to make themselves unelectable next time, even beating Corbyn at that. .

Sounds like Britain could become our Staten Island: The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering 2,200 acres in the New York City borough of Staten Island in the United States. The name comes from the landfill's location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island...