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hah that's not a new story. I had two grand aunts who worked in the UK health service every working day of their lives, from the 20's into the early 70's. May was a senior ward sister at the foundation of the NHS and became a matron shortly afterwards. the larger european countries have been reliant on getting staff from their smaller neighbours for a very long time. The only real way around this is to fund the training of healthcare professionals on a european basis.
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Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostI can't even drive, so know nothing. But it does strike me that the car industry might not be the easiest for a new entrant.
There's no shortage of capital in the cayman islands, but the hard bit is the battery. It takes a lot of laptop batteries to drive a car, and to give you an idea of just how many more batteries we're going to need. Tesla have started a massive battery factory/recycling plant in nevada. When it's at full capacity in 2020, it will be producing as many batteries as the whole world in 2015. That will only enable them to produce 1.5 million cars. The US market for cars is currently 17 million a year, so you can see that we're going to need a hell of a lot of batteries.
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I think the key raw material is cobalt (nickel and aluminium are the others, but they're more abundant). What's mostly happening is Chinese investment in DR Congo (which has by far the highest reserves and production) for infrastructure that gets to the mines and to buy influence. It helps that the Chinese really don't give a fuck about welfare of the miners, too. Nobody in Europe or the US can really play that kind of geopolitical game any more...
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"Gigafactory 1" is going to be something to see from the air
This is quite good on the raw materials issues.Last edited by ursus arctos; 29-09-2017, 23:17.
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Bernard. That idea of collective European funding for medical training is superb. If only there was the collective will and an institution capable of setting this up... Oh.
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Matti Maasikas, the deputy prime minister of Estonia, which currently holds the rolling European council presidency, voiced the widely held belief that hopes of gaining the support of leave voters ahead of the scheduled 2022 UK general election were driving those seeking a two-year limit on the transition ending in 2021.
“Am I mistaken,” he asked, “if I say that so far these dates, the possible numbers on the duration, have more to do with British domestic considerations?”
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Not up for Gove's new free trade zone with us and Albania then? They're another non-appearing cavalry, like German carmakers.
Johnson apparently can't be sacked, per the evasive non-answering of the Prime Minister this morning.
Eric Pickles has a brilliant idea. Have some people check that manifesto promises have been thought through.
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Stephen Kinnock, son of EU Commissioners, educated at the College of Europe, ex-research assistant at the EU Parliament, director of the World Economic Forum in Geneva, husband of the ex-Danish Prime Minister and an MEP has said that we need to re-think immigration and FoM.
Fuck him.
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