The reliance on imports

[Northeastfarmer]

Dad went to boyes for some diy stuff yesterday and a woman came in for some face masks, said she’d been everywhere and they were sold out...she got the last pack and left
Was told yesterday that jcb are now on less days per week as they can’t get parts from China
I’m sorry but this country is a joke now for engineering and industry and if we are not very careful we will be fully reliant on imports for food as well....god forbid there is a world war because we wouldn’t last a week

 

[Bury the Trash]

Also for those that fly around the world on their jollies they should have an obligatory quarenteen period paid for by them selves .
They should also be lectured on board of the actual amount co2 that their plane is emitting, including its build and its maintenance and the harm that they , yes they , those individuals on that plane are actually doing to the planet.


Right I'm off to plough for SB now to feed to me sheep in winter so I can produce some home grown meat.


Anyone who wants to reply to that can talk to the hand cos the face ain't listening....

 

[JeepJeep]

Yah JCB transmissions been on short weeks due to lack of parts.

I read JLR been flying stuff in in suitcases.

Amazon ordering as much as they can.. far more than normal & sellers flapping they'll run out of the popular lines.

Prices rising slightly with parts in the USA.

Chinese manufacturer been in touch saying they're good to go but I'm not convinced in having a few boxes of cold possibly diseased metal parts coming here at the moment.

 

[farmerm]

If the current trend continues and if it doesn't burnt itself out during the summer like regular flu usually does, Coronavirus might very well result in one of the greatest global economic depressions ever seen. but lets not panic, yet.

 

[Barleycorn]

If the current trend continues and if it doesn't burnt itself out during the summer like regular flu usually does, Coronavirus might very well result in one of the greatest global economic depressions ever seen. but lets not panic, yet.

People will still need to eat (the ones that are still alive anyway). Maybe farmers might be respected?

 

[hally]

Dad went to boyes for some diy stuff yesterday and a woman came in for some face masks, said she’d been everywhere and they were sold out...she got the last pack and left
Was told yesterday that jcb are now on less days per week as they can’t get parts from China
I’m sorry but this country is a joke now for engineering and industry and if we are not very careful we will be fully reliant on imports for food as well....god forbid there is a world war because we wouldn’t last a week

On the news the other night a tv company local to you have gone onto a short week as cannot get the parts from China. They sell as a British company but as usual it turns out that its only assembled here and parts are sourced abroad so how British are they?

 

[Cowabunga]

I read JLR been flying stuff in in suitcases.

Yes. Keyfobs.

 

[topground]

It might be the case that the Corona virus demonstrates that globalisation isn't sustainable. Those short of parts from abroad need to set up their own manufacturing plants and stop relying on cheap foreign labour and a supply chain outside of their control.

 

[bluebell]

well it has to take a national emergency to show how our country is so dependent on imports? the likes of FRED DIBNAH are saying i told you so?

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Those short of parts from abroad need to set up their own manufacturing plants and stop relying on cheap foreign labour and a supply chain outside of their control.

The UK is not just reliant on imports of finished goods, it's reliant on the import of raw materials as well. Those who think the UK could become self reliant and manufacture everything here just aren't living in the real world. One way or the other, you're still going to have to bring stuff in.

 

[bluebell]

imports of raw materials is one thing, but having sold our soul to chinia is another ? look what china has been doing round the world, buying up land in africia and newzealand building a railways so they have access to copper etc etc, has the penny dropped to late ?

 

[Swarfmonkey]

The Chinese play the long game, so it's fair to say that I wasn't at all surprised when they started buying up Africa.

 

[ILovebaling]

Am I the only 1 not remotely worried by coronovirus? I say this because a short few years ago we were all doomed because of swine flu yet here we all are getting frightened by the media once more.

 

[M-J-G]

A good tightening up would change a few attitudes.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Am I the only 1 not remotely worried by coronovirus? I say this because a short few years ago we were all doomed because of swine flu yet here we all are getting frightened by the media once more.

How dare you trust anything that the media says, remember the Y2K bug, global cooling with the impending ice age, the expanding hole in the ozone layer, endless end of the world predictions.....ffs?

 

[Tarw Coch]

How dare you trust anything that the media says, remember the Y2K bug, global cooling with the impending ice age, the expanding hole in the ozone layer, endless end of the world predictions.....ffs?

Did you miss out global warming?

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Did you miss out global warming?

We are still within the parameters of "normal", or be it fudging, uncomfortably hot outside today....even sweating writing bull shite on TFF....??
But not suffering sunburn either??
@Campbell

 

[teslacoils]

I'm off on holiday to Malaysia. Sod the co2. Two weeks of heat for less than a week at centre parcs. If we import 90 percent of everything, and everyone works in banks and spends their weekend paying me £5 for a coffee on my "leisure farm" then I will still only care what the bottom line is.

Heathrow runway and hs2 just show where this country is, or isn't, going.

 

[Nearly]

Am I the only 1 not remotely worried by coronovirus? I say this because a short few years ago we were all doomed because of swine flu yet here we all are getting frightened by the media once more.

My mum and mum in law have both had a good innings anyway.
It will be fine.

I'll just go and find some more shotgun cartridges to defend the dust masks in the workshop.

 

[JP1]

Things will certainly "tighten up"

Basic stuff no longer available and folks switching to European supplies. These will then start to run out

It's as serious for the ag sector as any other for their inputs