U K Chosen Ahead Of The E U S S R For Major Battery Factory......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65698529
...no doubt our 5Cers will find a way to spin it as a bad thing.

[ClareTG0ld]

This is an absolute disaster, a horribly bad thing, and goes against everything I hold dear. In fact I would go so far as to say that it's awful, disgusting, despicable, indubitably egregious and the fist sign of the apocalypse.

Every morning, I wake up and say 50 prayers to the great God of Remainers (probably Tony Blair or something) hoping that the UK will continue to see economic disasters and retributions for its insane and derisory decision to leave the saintly organisation that is the Great and Mighty Eternal EU. I will redouble my efforts after this news that has wholly undermined everything I hold dear. Failures! We must become failures! Everything must be destitute! Nothing else will do!

Rise, 5Cers, Commies, and Quislings! Rise, and bring eternal ruin to your country!

[Zacs-Master]

'Who actually ultimately owns it is irrelevant really.'

PMSL

[William51]

This is good news for the UK. It will have us as a world leader in the field.

[Khandro]

It's Jaaaag FGS! you can't get anymore British than that.
Well they are owned by Indians - Tata.

What about Aston Martin or Morgan ?

[Gromit]

Yep, Tesla set up their mega battery factory in Germany, and the Britishvolt factory in Northumberland died on its ***, but with a huge taxpayer bribe attached, we get a factory to build batteries for farm vehicles. Better than nothing, but not really a great aceivement.

[jno]

there does seem to have been a descent from having a British motor industry to having people making parts for other countries' motor industries. Still, anything that gets people working.

[Gromit]

Labour weren’t really a player in the UK joining the EEC/EC/EU.

From Heath to Thatcher to Major and Cameron, ALL the major steps were sign for by a Conservative Prime Minister. There is a lot of rewriting of history and blame passing by our brixiteer friends on here.

[Atheist]

It hasn't happened yet.
"The UK is set to win a battle with Spain to host a multi-billion-pound electric car battery plant in Somerset, the BBC understands

The boss of Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata is expected to fly to London next week to finalise the deal.

Some in the car industry have described the plant as the most significant investment in UK automotive since Nissan came to Britain in the 1980s.

Tata's chairman is scheduled to meet the prime minister mid-next week.

Sources familiar with the matter say that although the deal has yet to be signed, engagement has moved from negotiations to drafting and choreography of how the landmark agreement will be presented."

I hope it goes through.

[jno]

don't forget the ceremonial handing over of the brown paper parcel of used fivers...

[douglas9401]

"sprat to catch a mackerel"

Prat to spraff a caterwaul.

You're welcome. x

Of course it's good news, just expensive.
Now, fingers crossed for a smooth operation for a change.

[ClareTG0ld]

// 16:49, so because you didn't get your own way you want us to fail. Classic re moaner [Clare]. You just negated my considerable respect for your knowledge. //

First of all, it's Clare, and I'll remind you once again about the rule of using ABer's preferred names. Please respect that rule.

Secondly, I was not being remotely serious. I thought I'd laid it on so thickly that it wouldn't possibly be mistaken for seriousness ("Every morning I wake up and say 50 prayers", etc). I mean, Christ, didn't "indubitably egregious", "Great and Mighty Eternal EU", give it away?

I appreciate that sarcasm is often lost on the internet, but for crying out loud, there's not even an effort here to run a sanity check on your interpretation. It's honestly remarkable that you fell for it. I wasn't even trying to trick you.

[THECORBYLOON]

"In the case of Tata's new plant, the UK's expected success has not been easily or cheaply won.

The government has said that while it does not recognise a figure of £500m in reported subsidies, they concede that it is in the hundreds of millions of pounds."

I heard a report on the radio it was in the region of £800m so that might explain why they don't recognize the lower amount.

[tomus42]

//Quite why either government should provide subsidies to a private concern who want to expand into a different product range is anybody's guess//

My guess would be that most governments are sensible enough to realise that an employed and well paid population is something a country should aspire to having unless it wants to become a third world sheet whole. So much so that cash incentives to enable this are seen as a sound investment.

[Hopkirk]

It's not just British Leyland that couldn't make a go of Jaguar, Ford tried for a while.

[gulliver1]

This deal with all the subsidies, is paying to go to work.

[bobbinwales]

Gulliver, sounds like the sort of investment we should be doing and am sure will see more of it when keir is PM ...bring it on.
You'd criticise it if we did invest in them or didn't. If Labour done it you'd be in favour.

[1ozzy]

//In the case of Tata's new plant, the UK's expected success has not been easily or cheaply won//

So much for the Raj, how the tables have turned;-/

[10ClarionSt]

I don't want an EV. I shudder at the thought. All the gubbins about emissions is just another way of taxing working people. It's peoples' lifestyles that make them ill, not emissions from vehicles.

[1ozzy]

So air pollution is non existent 10etc?