The Masked Tulip Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Nick Robinson just said on BBC that 1,000 shipyard jobs to go but none will go in Scotland because of the independence vote coming up. Currently unknown where in England the jobs will go. Engineering - UK doesn't need it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admann Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 You mean manufacturing not engineering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyme2 Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 You mean manufacturing not engineering They go hand in hand, lose one and in many cases you eventually lose the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zugzwang Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 350 jobs to go at Barclays in Coventry. Boom time init. http://www.coventryobserver.co.uk/2013/11/05/news-Hundreds-of-jobs-to-go-at-Barclays-call-centre-in-Walsgrave-88792.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Yet the london asking price for houses has reached new heights of lunacy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormymonday_2011 Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Britain's boom economy just goes from strength to strength. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted November 6, 2013 Author Share Posted November 6, 2013 All those jobs going in Pompey gives an opportunity to raise asking prices in the area Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 It's a tiger boom economy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 We build financial products and print paper money. What use have we for ship yards or industry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted November 6, 2013 Author Share Posted November 6, 2013 800 jobs to go in Scotland also - for every job that goes another 68 goes in the local community apparently. Jobs will go because Type 26 frigate contract will not be awarded until 2016 which, of course, depends on whether Scotland is still part of the UK or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted November 6, 2013 Author Share Posted November 6, 2013 They are all walking out now in Scotland and going home according to the Beeb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 They are all walking out now in Scotland and going home according to the Beeb. They can all get jobs at BTL speculators and spivs in Edinburgh. They'll be fine. The jobless recovery is going very well. I myself have become a bank and I am lending to failed businesses and peolpe with no money. I feel good about myself for the first time in years, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jie Bie Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 800 jobs to go in Scotland also - for every job that goes another 68 goes in the local community apparently. Jobs will go because Type 26 frigate contract will not be awarded until 2016 which, of course, depends on whether Scotland is still part of the UK or not. Supposedly Portsmouth doesn't have the capacity to assemble the Type 26 frigates anyway, which is why BAe wants to build them on the Clyde after the success of the Type 45 destroyers, which were all assembled at Scotstoun. Although part of me is suspicious that they may well have closed the Govan yard today if it weren't for next years referendum, as any promises of "Vote NO and keep your jobs" would have sounded pretty pathetic if they had allowed Govan to shut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quicken Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 (edited) BAE said it would begin consultation to cut 1,775 jobs "to result from these restructuring proposals".This would see 940 posts go in Portsmouth in 2014 and 835 across Filton, Glasgow and Rosyth, through to 2016. The statement added: "The cost of the restructuring will be borne by the Ministry of Defence. The Filton (Bristol), Glasgow and Rosyth losses could be mainly voluntary redundancy, while the pompy losses will be more drastic. Nice to see the cost will be borne by the MoD british taxpayer. Edit: beeb link Edited November 6, 2013 by Quicken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 They can all get jobs at BTL speculators and spivs in Edinburgh. They'll be fine. I myself have become a bank and I am lending to failed businesses and peolpe with no money. I might do the same. I used to run an ISP from a container in East London. I now run a hedge fund from a Council flat. Fun innit? Who needs a real job making real stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Fortunately they can fall back on Help to Buy (Scotland). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caius Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 800 jobs to go in Scotland also - for every job that goes another 68 goes in the local community apparently. Jobs will go because Type 26 frigate contract will not be awarded until 2016 which, of course, depends on whether Scotland is still part of the UK or not. If Scotland leave, then at that moment, the entity known as the UK will cease to exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted November 6, 2013 Author Share Posted November 6, 2013 If Scotland leave, then at that moment, the entity known as the UK will cease to exist. Only in the minds of the Welsh Nats Caius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caius Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Only in the minds of the Welsh Nats Caius What Brit nats living in Wales like yourself fail to understand is that the Welsh economy is a basket case because Wales it isn't taken seriously...unlike Scotland. Britain was formed when Scotland and England were united. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted November 6, 2013 Author Share Posted November 6, 2013 Britain was formed when Scotland and England were united. Go tell the Romans that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caius Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 (edited) I am talking about the political entity which exists today. Britain comes from Latin meaning 'Land of Britons' who spoke a Brythonic Celtic language closely related to Welsh, Cornish and Breton. The term Britian in it's modern usage was adopted in order to make it seem more inclusive. The 'Great' part is to distinguish it from Brittany or 'Lesser Britain'. When the Angles came (around 500 AD) , the term Britain or it's Latin equivilent was no longer used until the union of Scotland and England in 1707. NB The oldest surviving documents written in Welsh is 'Y Gododdin which was written in what is today southern Scotland and tells of a battle against the Angles at Catterick in what is today the north of England. It was written around the 7th century. Edited November 6, 2013 by Caius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash4781 Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Well the focus is on private sector job creation. These seem to be in services and drill down further strong growth is in estate agents. This is called rebalancing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Go tell the Romans that. What have they ever done for us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash4781 Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 The growth is also in the South East of England! This is also what they call rebalancing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCountOfNowhere Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 (edited) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24831779 Thankfully it's not as bad as we thought. "BAE cuts 1,775 jobs at its English and Scottish yards" They have freed up even more workers so they can focus on their BTLs and investment portfolios.I expect even more coffee shops and renovated gastro pubs springing up in those areas best affected.The savvy ones of course will be investing all the redundancy money in London property, it's a sure fired winner. Onwards and downwards. ( Note: There is nothing left but to take the mickey out of the absurdity of the situation ). Edited November 6, 2013 by TheCountOfNowhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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