HDi fun said:
pgarner, it's good to find someone still working in manufacturing in the UK.
Let's hope that this country (or collection thereof, I'm totally aware that the UK does not just consist of England) can get a foot back into worldwide manufacturing and industry in general.
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You better remember it Lockerbie Cheese Factory is the best/ Highest qulity chesse in scotland. infact if you buy any scottish cheese from tescos it will prob be from lockerbie
the northern rock to be fair is it not part of an american company which has had issues with morgages in the the us of a
iwould also say thats the problem here is high prices
between me and the wife we earn just over £30 k a year before tax and overtime. we have no kids but our morgage is £400 a year then council tax insurance gas phone eletric and thats just on a on a flat the house prices are soaring to high ( our flat has gained 23k in 2 years. ive spent about 2k doing it up, now worth around 75 for a 2 bedroom flat )
just got our new morgage fixed and i was told i could get up to £70k onmy salary but i would have no money to spend thereforend up in debt have to borrow to get out of overdrafts and cc bills therefore still in debt fal behind in payments and lose the house. its a shame i work with some great folk and 1 is just over 40 and still living in a council house simply because he cant afford to pay for a house.
talking about industry picking up. we got told about a rival company starting in the next 2 years at carlise that will prosess 1.5 million ltrs of milk every day, to put it nicley we produce 80ton a day on 900 thou a day.
a big boost to the general area but on the other side gates (which most cars use for timing belts, drive belts) will prob be shutting down withen the next 5 years due to undercut prics from abroad.
industry wants cheap labour( we just accepted a 3% payrise compared to some thats nothing and we had to fight for 6 months for that ) so they arent going to find in in the uk so go elsewhere.
as for the emmissions and global warming fuk it. not to long ago we were in an iceage around here before there was dinos wandering about. anybody who looks at the history of the earth will see that the world gets hotter and colder.
me personnay i think its because the orbit around the sun is not circular its elliptical and changes every year there for sometimes were closer to the sun and others were further away.its also documented that the axis of the earth changes every so often so much so that the magnetic field changes so the mag north would point south. this has been found to have hapened a few time thou not much.
industry is better i have more time off than the wife who wors in a hospital she works 5 days with sum sunday work i work 3 and a half with up to 18 yes 18 weeks off if i take my holidays at the right time. iam also paid more than her( quite a bit ) and a lot less stress
can i ask what you do hdi going by most of your posts i think you should be a lawyer