British elites and aristocracy selling off the last remnants of UK public wealth in order to live comfortably for another generation.
Morgan
Tvr?
Ineos?
McLaren?
about 2 pubs
Triumph Motorbikes are still British owned, chap named John Bloor I think 🤔
out of curiosity, what is the reason for this? I see Britain going in decline, mainly due to the loss of jobs, but why is this lack of british pioneering and ambition so severe?
Just beans on toast. That’s about it.
Nah….but didn’t you hear? When Nige becomes prime minister he’s gonna bring them all back. They’re coming home, bois.
Aston Martin is a British Plc listed in London
NHS?
Aston Martin: technically still a UK company, but the largest shareholder is a Canadian (28.29%), Saudi owns over 17% (I can’t find the actual percentage) and China’s Geely own 17%.
Aston?
Not much. This country is shit.
Pretty sure it’s only the rolls Royce cars that are German. The aerospace isn’t owned by bmw
TVR.
Jaguar and Land Rover are still British car makers
They are engineered in Warwickshire and mainly built in Birmingham and Liverpool.
The parent company is Indian, so what.
If you get your mortgage funded from Barclays it doesn’t make your house American you twonk.
On one hand it’s sad. On the other hand, it’s a distraction. It’s a class struggle. Should I care if my car manufacturer was a rich cunt in Britain or a rich man in Germany? Both will be doing what they can to avoid taxes. If we were comparing companies who had thousands of British owners vs thousands of German owners, then that would be different. But it’s never that clear cut
With the cost of labour and energy here? ….
If there is, there won’t be for long.
Not much. Don’t forget ARM was sold off, now to Japan.
Morgan is a boutique manufacturer in Malvern. Brompton bikes are really one of the last big British cycling names, unfortunately I would be surprised if that manages to survive the bike industry turmoil in one piece. Orange is a small boutique steel frame manufacturer in the North.
Pretty much all our major national family silver has been sold off under Tory and New Labour administrations though. It’s a race to the bottom and it’s going to get ugly.
TV licence
I’d rather buy a Nissan made in Sunderland than a land-rover made in the Czech Republic. The former benefits Britain and its infrastructure, the main beneficiaries of the latter are shareholders.
We fucked over the docks, miners, car makers, steel workers etc and degraded the hard work of the generations before who put the Great in Britain. They deskilled the future and said we needed foreign workers to plug the poor services the elite messed up.
They sold us by the pound…
But hey! Let’s grow the economy eh?
The real ‘British car maker’ is still Rolls-Royce, who don’t make cars anymore but are a paragon of British engineering/manufacturing, plus aero engines have a much higher value add then cars.
So yes, cars are not made or designed in the UK any more, but there are still examples of similar industries.
The people want to live on benefits here, what else would you expect.
Turns out globalisation wasn’t so great when we stopped having a massive tech advantage over the rest of the world…
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British elites and aristocracy selling off the last remnants of UK public wealth in order to live comfortably for another generation.
Morgan
Tvr?
Ineos?
McLaren?
about 2 pubs
Triumph Motorbikes are still British owned, chap named John Bloor I think 🤔
out of curiosity, what is the reason for this? I see Britain going in decline, mainly due to the loss of jobs, but why is this lack of british pioneering and ambition so severe?
Just beans on toast. That’s about it.
Nah….but didn’t you hear? When Nige becomes prime minister he’s gonna bring them all back. They’re coming home, bois.
Aston Martin is a British Plc listed in London
NHS?
Aston Martin: technically still a UK company, but the largest shareholder is a Canadian (28.29%), Saudi owns over 17% (I can’t find the actual percentage) and China’s Geely own 17%.
Aston?
Not much. This country is shit.
Pretty sure it’s only the rolls Royce cars that are German. The aerospace isn’t owned by bmw
TVR.
Jaguar and Land Rover are still British car makers
They are engineered in Warwickshire and mainly built in Birmingham and Liverpool.
The parent company is Indian, so what.
If you get your mortgage funded from Barclays it doesn’t make your house American you twonk.
On one hand it’s sad. On the other hand, it’s a distraction. It’s a class struggle. Should I care if my car manufacturer was a rich cunt in Britain or a rich man in Germany? Both will be doing what they can to avoid taxes. If we were comparing companies who had thousands of British owners vs thousands of German owners, then that would be different. But it’s never that clear cut
With the cost of labour and energy here? ….
If there is, there won’t be for long.
Not much. Don’t forget ARM was sold off, now to Japan.
Morgan is a boutique manufacturer in Malvern. Brompton bikes are really one of the last big British cycling names, unfortunately I would be surprised if that manages to survive the bike industry turmoil in one piece. Orange is a small boutique steel frame manufacturer in the North.
Pretty much all our major national family silver has been sold off under Tory and New Labour administrations though. It’s a race to the bottom and it’s going to get ugly.
TV licence
I’d rather buy a Nissan made in Sunderland than a land-rover made in the Czech Republic. The former benefits Britain and its infrastructure, the main beneficiaries of the latter are shareholders.
We fucked over the docks, miners, car makers, steel workers etc and degraded the hard work of the generations before who put the Great in Britain. They deskilled the future and said we needed foreign workers to plug the poor services the elite messed up.
They sold us by the pound…
But hey! Let’s grow the economy eh?
The real ‘British car maker’ is still Rolls-Royce, who don’t make cars anymore but are a paragon of British engineering/manufacturing, plus aero engines have a much higher value add then cars.
So yes, cars are not made or designed in the UK any more, but there are still examples of similar industries.
The people want to live on benefits here, what else would you expect.
Turns out globalisation wasn’t so great when we stopped having a massive tech advantage over the rest of the world…
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