[Youngian]

Deputy ambassador from Bizzaro World (boss: John Redwood) Penny Morduant is now a regular Express contributor and a delight to read if you’re a student studying the depths of human stupidity. This week she lists some companies that have made some sales with some Polly Filler* padding

Britain is starting to power the world once again - PENNY MORDAUNT

They always have. What’s different now is that you can see it. It’s understandable. We’ve had a lot of change in a short period. Financial crises, Covid, Brexit, Elections, a lot has happened in the last few years. Of course people are going to disagree. But imagine a world where everyone agreed on everything – would it be easier to find solutions? Would it be more likely you’d find the answers? Of course not. You need dissent and disagreement to solve problems.

You may think this is just what happens in politics, but disagreement has shot through the commercial world and good job, too. It leads to innovation and fresh thinking there as well.

Post Brexit businesses across the UK have not just coped with change, but used the opportunities it has brought.

Take Northern Ireland bus manufacturer Wrightbus for example. It has partnered with Australian bus builder Volgren on a ground-breaking deal to use hydrogen fuel technology on new buses, leading to much bigger contracts in Australia.

The deal is a great example of the opportunities provided by the UK’s independent trading status and our network of Free Trade Agreements with dynamic nations like Australia. https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expre ... atest-news

* Spoof Private Eye hack who writes ‘I was thinking the other day’ bollocks to fill space.

[Cyclist]

The deal is a great example of the opportunities provided by the UK’s independent trading status and our network of Free Trade Agreements with dynamic nations like Australia

Is this the Australia which will probably end up being evacuated as climate change renders it uninhabitable?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61432462

[Boiler]

The deal is a great example of the opportunities provided by the UK’s independent trading status and our network of Free Trade Agreements with dynamic nations like Australia

Is this the Australia which will probably end up being evacuated as climate change renders it uninhabitable?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61432462

Yes, the same nation that for its mere 20 million inhabitants is one of the great polluters as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... pita-basis

As most of it is uninhabitable anyway, you'd think solar was a no-brainer - but no.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

It wasn't a joke...

[Boiler]

Here's one for the Brexit Opportunities Minister.

Some time ago, major UK electronic component suppliers branched out to have distribution centres in Europe - this gave them a foothold in continental Europe as well as more space to hold more stock.

Nowadays, if I make an order I am now finding that orders split across distribution sites are fragmented in delivery times as they may have to clear customs checks if parts are coming from the European sites.

Example: I placed an order for some components on Tuesday, thinking that I could do some repairs today. A delivery duly occurred next day - except for one critical component, which is coming from the supplier's warehouse in France. I might get it tomorrow but Monday is more likely.

Explain to me how this is good? And if a very minor business like mine is getting this, what is it like for manufacturers who work entirely on a JIT basis?

[Bones McCoy]

Here's one for the Brexit Opportunities Minister.

Some time ago, major UK electronic component suppliers branched out to have distribution centres in Europe - this gave them a foothold in continental Europe as well as more space to hold more stock.

Nowadays, if I make an order I am now finding that orders split across distribution sites are fragmented in delivery times as they may have to clear customs checks if parts are coming from the European sites.

Example: I placed an order for some components on Tuesday, thinking that I could do some repairs today. A delivery duly occurred next day - except for one critical component, which is coming from the supplier's warehouse in France. I might get it tomorrow but Monday is more likely.

Explain to me how this is good? And if a very minor business like mine is getting this, what is it like for manufacturers who work entirely on a JIT basis?

Country Smogg doesn't believe in that new fangled electricity.

Putting hard working lamp-lighters out of business ... of something.

[Boiler]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Deputy ambassador from Bizzaro World (boss: John Redwood) Penny Morduant is now a regular Express contributor and a delight to read if you’re a student studying the depths of human stupidity. This week she lists some companies that have made some sales with some Polly Filler* padding

* Spoof Private Eye hack who writes ‘I was thinking the other day’ bollocks to fill space.

So lightweight, surprised she didn't float off like Angel Delight in that old advert. Blah blah technology blah Australia.

[RedSparrows]

Deputy ambassador from Bizzaro World (boss: John Redwood) Penny Morduant is now a regular Express contributor and a delight to read if you’re a student studying the depths of human stupidity. This week she lists some companies that have made some sales with some Polly Filler* padding

Britain is starting to power the world once again - PENNY MORDAUNT

They always have. What’s different now is that you can see it. It’s understandable. We’ve had a lot of change in a short period. Financial crises, Covid, Brexit, Elections, a lot has happened in the last few years. Of course people are going to disagree. But imagine a world where everyone agreed on everything – would it be easier to find solutions? Would it be more likely you’d find the answers? Of course not. You need dissent and disagreement to solve problems.

You may think this is just what happens in politics, but disagreement has shot through the commercial world and good job, too. It leads to innovation and fresh thinking there as well.

Post Brexit businesses across the UK have not just coped with change, but used the opportunities it has brought.

Take Northern Ireland bus manufacturer Wrightbus for example. It has partnered with Australian bus builder Volgren on a ground-breaking deal to use hydrogen fuel technology on new buses, leading to much bigger contracts in Australia.

The deal is a great example of the opportunities provided by the UK’s independent trading status and our network of Free Trade Agreements with dynamic nations like Australia. https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expre ... atest-news

* Spoof Private Eye hack who writes ‘I was thinking the other day’ bollocks to fill space.

Oh look, I dropped a box of books on my foot whilst moving house. But no fear, I've taken the opportunity to spend an hour on the sofa to recuperate. What an opportunity!

[MisterMuncher]

Wrightbus are as bent as the road to Benburb, as they say round these parts. Creaming profits off to fund a "Church", then going cap in hand for more government contracts, make-work and straight up cash grants*. All ably abetted by the local MP, a Mr Ian Paisley.


*Largely the stock in trade of heavy industries in NI, particularly those east of the Bann. See also Shorts/Bombardier and H&W.

[Bones McCoy]

Wrightbus are as bent as the road to Benburb, as they say round these parts. Creaming profits off to fund a "Church", then going cap in hand for more government contracts, make-work and straight up cash grants*. All ably abetted by the local MP, a Mr Ian Paisley.


*Largely the stock in trade of heavy industries in NI, particularly those east of the Bann. See also Shorts/Bombardier and H&W.

I'd never heard of them until my stint in the Netherlands.
New housemate was an intern / apprentice or something similar with Wrightbus.

We all learned a fair bit about their business model, and subsidy farming in general.

[Boiler]

I think I've seen one or two of their products round here - and aren't they also the builders of the so-called "Borismaster" buses in London?

[Youngian]

Wrightbus are as bent as the road to Benburb, as they say round these parts. Creaming profits off to fund a "Church", then going cap in hand for more government contracts, make-work and straight up cash grants*. All ably abetted by the local MP, a Mr Ian Paisley.


*Largely the stock in trade of heavy industries in NI, particularly those east of the Bann. See also Shorts/Bombardier and H&W.

I'd never heard of them until my stint in the Netherlands.
New housemate was an intern / apprentice or something similar with Wrightbus.

We all learned a fair bit about their business model, and subsidy farming in general.

My first foray into business journalism was a transport industry trade magazine where I excitedly picked up a letter from the boss of Wrights of Ballymena. A letter accompanied a photocopy of a Telegraph story that convinced him Brussels was to ban double decker buses. Which was a tiresome cliched trope even in the mid 90s but I knew little better.
A wiser colleague took me aside to explain why I wasn’t going to write a story about double decker bans but why the newspapers haven’t a clue what they’re talking about (he was a biker and was involved in some campaign to lobby the EP about noise emission so knew his onions on how the Commission worked).
The Telegraph article had a nationalist tone that only the UK used deckers (horse shit) and Johnny Foreigner was out to get us.
The loon boss from Wrights wrote an angry letter to the editor still convinced the Brussels ban was real and no mere verifiable facts would shift him.
My colleague alerted me to the twat who wrote these straight banana stories and I recognized his name from attending crown court the previous year as part of NCTJ court reporting course. At the trial of Darius Guppy. I didn’t know then I was viewing the future of the country.
Mr Wrights of Ballymena was also an ardent Unionist Brexiter who did very nicely on blank cheques from London’s tax payers. Building god awful Routemaster clones at five times the market rate of similar existing vehicles.

[Youngian]

This arrogant ‘laying down the law’ language from the Redcoats isn’t going to impress Congress. The impotent rage is amusing as reality knocks and his cognitive dissonance goes into meltdown.

[Bones McCoy]

Bad form to piss off the Yanks, especially for Tories

a) The country may be developing a nasty cast of RWNJitis in the hick states, but they're still nominally on our side.

b) They have a fuck-off massive military who still have wet dreams about shit like this



c) In a nod to Dickens: Thatcher's ghost will return and curse you with cheap wallpaper.

d) In a nod to Remero: Trump's zombified cadaver might rampage over the Capitol one last time.

[Bones McCoy]

Possibly a piss-take:



I preferred his detective years.

[mattomac]

Like Johnson, Frost enjoys the consequence free bullshit spouting in the press and on twitter as for parachuting him into parliament, you just know how that ends up, 15 by elections later and they are still trying each one agitating the party even more.

[Watchman]

It will go swimmingly until Frosty looses the first by-election he stands in, and then accuses the elected candidate of sticking to the rules

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Look.
I spent most of my career summing people up at first sight. I got to be pretty good at it (My pal Alan says I was the best).

I can't look at Frost without my instincts screaming 'thick fucking tosser' at me. He looks so shifty, unintelligent and dull. It's the piggy eyes, sure, but mostly the expression. The certainty in wrongness, the inability to consider the pov of others...

And don't get me started on Nadim Zahawi...

[Youngian]

Is ‘Remainers’ Brexit’ going to be a thing?