BREXIT. Welcome to the wastelands..

[Styx]

BMW said from 2019 a fully electric “Mini E” will roll off the production lines at its Oxford plant which is the historic home of the iconic car, easing concerns about the impact of Brexit.

The news guarantees the future of the 4,500 staff at plant, who currently build the bulk of the 360,000 Minis of all models produced annually.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/...nds-build-new/



"We're all doomed - doomed I tell you!"

[birdbath]

That Telegraph article is somewhat misleading as it fails to mention that the all-important electric drivetrain will be built in BMWs Bavarian heartland and it is that component that will have the flexibility to be fitted to several models.
The announcement is good news in the short to medium term but if the govt can't get Brexit right, then foreign companies like BMW will make decisions that are suited to their best interests.
As I have pointed out previously, British-owned car manufacture is practically non-existent and reliance on foreign investment is critical to the economy.

[silver fox]

Of course this news is welcome in the short term, but as already pointed out the important bits will ptoduced elsewhere and the "E" Mini will be assembled on existing production lines, no difference between assembling the car with any other engine or drive train, also take note that major BMW investment is not coming in to this country.

[The PNP]

Govt minister interviewed yesterday, fails to deny we may have to eat U.S. beef contaminated with growth-hormones, many genetically tinkered-with food products, dodgy chickens, etc, if we want a trade deal with the U.S.

[rare-pepe999]

Govt minister interviewed yesterday, fails to deny we may have to eat U.S. beef contaminated with growth-hormones, many genetically tinkered-with food products, dodgy chickens, etc, if we want a trade deal with the U.S.

No food you eat today is in its "natural" form. Animals are bred to produce more milk/meat, plants are bred to produce more crops.this i just a modern extension of that.

[Albion102]

Govt minister interviewed yesterday, fails to deny we may have to eat U.S. beef contaminated with growth-hormones, many genetically tinkered-with food products, dodgy chickens, etc, if we want a trade deal with the U.S.

We won't have to eat anything. Stuff will continue to be labelled with the country of origin. Anywhere decent will know the provenance of food and consumers can make a choice.

Rare-pepe makes a rare sensible point, that anything natural was bred out of the stuff we eat a very long time ago. If we "re-wilded" Britain and left it to its own devices, cows and chickens would have vanished in a generation.

[The PNP]

We won't have to eat anything. Stuff will continue to be labelled with the country of origin. Anywhere decent will know the provenance of food and consumers can make a choice.

And that choice extendes to the potentially contaminated steaks your favourite restaurant may dish up? And a big pain having to pore over every food products label and quizz every food outlet/burger-bar about the nationality of their meat for evermore.

[Little Londoner]

And that choice extendes to the potentially contaminated steaks your favourite restaurant may dish up? And a big pain having to pore over every food products label and quizz every food outlet/burger-bar about the nationality of their meat for evermore.

Well with any luck it will keep you and your other self Corny Hunt busy and give us a bit of peace from your constant drivel against anything that can't be pedalled.

By the way did KGV not teach you how to spell extends and quiz?

[Ralphy Rylance]

So we've taken back control by allowing German companies to buy British trademarks and generate some of their profits in Britain. Makes one glad we won the war...

[said]

No food you eat today is in its "natural" form. Animals are bred to produce more milk/meat, plants are bred to produce more crops.this i just a modern extension of that.

Not quite! GM modified foods have been banned in the UK - but they have not been banned in the US. These foods are already making their way into the UK market e.g. fast food cooking oils. It is also suspected that far more of this food has already found its way into the UK since there is a huge American investment in UK food production.

[rare-pepe999]

Not quite! GM modified foods have been banned in the UK - but they have not been banned in the US. These foods are already making their way into the UK market e.g. fast food cooking oils. It is also suspected that far more of this food has already found its way into the UK since there is a huge American investment in UK food production.

The plants and animals humans grow today for food are not the same as they were before humans started growing them for food. they are a result of thousands of years of selective breeding.

[The PNP]

The plants and animals humans grow today for food are not the same as they were before humans started growing them for food. they are a result of thousands of years of selective breeding.

True enough...But gm foods are unnatural and a very different thing. You will find yourself eating some very weird stuff indeed - say lettuce containing pig dna!

[rare-pepe999]

True enough...But gm foods are unnatural and a very different thing. You will find yourself eating some very weird stuff indeed - say lettuce containing pig dna!

Its a lettuce not a pig

Chimpanzees are 98% similar to humans, are you a Chimpanzee?

[silver fox]

Its a lettuce not a pig

Chimpanzees are 98% similar to humans, are you a Chimpanzee?

We also have a quite remarkable similarity to a blade of grass, which merely demonstrates that most if not all life on Earth has a single origin.

GM modification can and does have some benefits were disease resistant strains can be created, but of course this is far from the limits of GM modification many of which we have no concept of the effects, incidentally noted today, the sperm count of Western males is at it's lowest ever and continuing to fall, scientists believe that over use of chemicals and GM in crops is a good part of that, one way of getting the population under control I suppose.

[The PNP]

We also have a quite remarkable similarity to a blade of grass, which merely demonstrates that most if not all life on Earth has a single origin.

Agree, dna of all life on earth can be traced back to one single common ancestor......But baffling that as conditions at the time were presumably favourable to life starting-up, how come many other life-forms with entirely different dna's never also emerged/evolved?

Not impossible that life began elsewhere, and our planet was merely 'seeded' with alien dna via a stray life-containing meteorite from 'out there' somewhere.....