Sir Keir Stumbler?Sir #whatshisname
Sir Keir Stumbler?Sir #whatshisname
More accurate.Sir Kneel Stumbler?
Aha. Adding the "Sir" and all of a sudden the BATCO makes sense.Sir #whatshisname
Just finished reading Putin’s people by Catherine Belton. Read it and weep. The peace dividend has been well and truly lost. Understand why London was protected so zealously and why there is gnashing of teeth By Brussels.Particularly when it comes to bribery and corruption, not forgetting massive tax avoidance by large multi-national companies.
As far as I know it was all road haulage via Spain
Current journey time 6 days, they are claiming 3 days for direct ferry.
In the road haulage game time is money. This is the polar opposite of the Irish landbridge problem where the direct ferry routes from Ireland to europe are longer.
Will all depend on numbers (it always does) but on face value you are accessing a cheaper, higher quality product in half the time it currently takes.
Would need to know the ferry costs to give you a better idea on the financial benefits to it.
Not knowing this sector, I suspect United Seaways have already carried out it’s feasible study into overhead costs to business etc.
Apparently, they operate out of Poole.
Now, if another operator followed suit from ie: Portsmouth/Southampton or even Portland (pending infrastructure uplift) then I strongly suspect this increases turn around therefore financial benefits apply accordingly.
Would this be plausible?
A boost in trading with north Africa via Morrocco may also lead to more employment in north Africa, producing goods for export rather than jihadis, win win all round.Similarly, at the other end there will need to be additional security of a very high standard. We don't want said undesirables saving themselves a long and perilous journey through Spain/Italy/France.
They really are the enemy within.Layla Moron strikes again, it seems that it's our fault for leaving the EU and taking our world class negotiating skills with us that the EU has made such a cock up of accumulating vaccines.
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Lib Dems blame Britain for EU's vaccine disaster
Lib Dem MP Layla Moran suggested today that the European Commission’s failure to acquire an adequate supply of Covid-19 vaccines was because Britain chose not to sign up to the joint procurement scheme. In June last year, Ms Moran wrote to health secretary Matt Hancock, calling on him to “put...foxhole.news
I suspect the EU is pissing a lot of peopleAccording to the 2016 Census, a million Australians are of Italian ancestry - it's the sixth largest ethnic group and well entrenched into Aussie business and political life. Compare that to 250,000 doses.
This is not going to play well at all in that community.
but ended up with Sweden and a Volvo (yeah, yeah, I know) instead.
It will be interesting to see how the EUSSR reacts to the Morocco thing.
What you got, my V40 was made (final assembly) in Belgium.
edit for nitpick
What are they can they do? To my inexperienced eye the answer is 'Bugger all'.
Jesus weptLayla Moron strikes again, it seems that it's our fault for leaving the EU and taking our world class negotiating skills with us that the EU has made such a cock up of accumulating vaccines.
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Lib Dems blame Britain for EU's vaccine disaster
Lib Dem MP Layla Moran suggested today that the European Commission’s failure to acquire an adequate supply of Covid-19 vaccines was because Britain chose not to sign up to the joint procurement scheme. In June last year, Ms Moran wrote to health secretary Matt Hancock, calling on him to “put...foxhole.news
Adelaide used to have the biggest population of Greeks outside Greece. Doubt they will be too chuffed either.According to the 2016 Census, a million Australians are of Italian ancestry - it's the sixth largest ethnic group and well entrenched into Aussie business and political life. Compare that to 250,000 doses.
This is not going to play well at all in that community.