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Not always, retirement is much better. :) But as for jobs in tourism, I'd rather have the choice than be railroaded into Britain being reliant on tourism. .

The government didn't seem to think that important enough to mention in the release I saw. Your link shows a typical 2% up for three months. However, it highlights what I've warned of a number of times, a future as a tourist destination meaning very low incomes in menial jobs. Not a future...

It would help to have someone making the message clear and debunking the Brexit propaganda. We just had a lot of hype about how well the economy has done of the three months since Brexit, but the truth was very different, that for the three months was: Manufacturing was down. Construction was...

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Although I'm not a fat bike fan, I quite like it. I think there's probably a market for a road-ready sensible powered fat bike like that. .

This isn't technically possible. Batteries are chemical devices, storing a chemical potential that when called upon, converts a chemical reaction into the current we need. So there's no quantity of electricity sitting in the battery that can be measured electrically. Long ago with lead acid...

In short, Brexit means Wrecksit. .

But we can be a manufacturing centre for the EU, if we stay in at least. Nissan, Toyota and Honda, Vauxhall-Peugeot vans and Ford diesel engines have shown that. Since Nissan's most successful model world wide is wholly British designed and developed, we could have been doing it for ourselves...

Now we must be fair, far from just British assembled. Nissan's best seller is the Qashqai and that was British designed at their Paddington, London design centre, development in Surrey and manufactured exclusively at Sunderland for a long time. Only the engines were joint Renault-Nissan...

And effectively own Nissan and call the shots, since the rest of the capital is so fragmented. .

The same vagueness that the minister expressed, "extra support", "unconditional investment aid", "further relief", each time the specific form avoided and ducking the word tariff. No problems at the moment of course, the weak pound is making Nissan et al more competitive in Europe, so no aid...

I've just listened to the minister being interviewed on the midday news. He ducked and weaved around every attempt to get an answer on whether they had given tariff costs guarantees. He also carefully worked around whether the tax payer is going to have to bear the costs. It was clear to me...

A doubly interesting footnote. The government have now specifically ruled out support for Nissan on tariff costs, should we leave the EU. Their words indicate we may not leave the EU, note they carefully avoided saying "when we leave". But Nissan's statements indicate they expect to receive...

Yes that's right Gray, they came here first after being offered a substantial inducement to do so. Normally that wouldn't be legal within the EU, but in this case it was since Sunderland was a severely depressed area already subject to EU grants. It helped that Nissan are effectively owned by...

They've always built the Qashqai at Sunderland of course, at first they were only built there and not in Japan since it was an all British design which never had any development in Japan. But it's good that the X-trail is going to be built there as well for the first time. It seems they've...

If there was a rerun of the referendum, I wonder how many of the leave promoters would want to repeat their role. I'm betting Boris Johnson would refuse to lead the Brexit campaign or even take part in it. And Michael Gove's sudden change into a placatory stance with the party could mean he'd...

There's already a background plan allowing a fourth runway, there's level enough space for it. However, we might not need that and wouldn't need to go beyond that if we get on with a complete high speed rail network, meaning HS2, HS3, HS4 and HS 5, connecting the whole country. Then with no...

Yes, no problem on the open road. Not so good in town though, when weaving about in traffic and sharp responses are wanted. .

And an enormously long wheelbase, meaning very slow steering. .

Maybe we'll reinstate the Roman empire divisions. They had a demarcation line from the Mersey to The Wash. South of that they called Britannia Superior, north of that line they called Britannia Inferior. .