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Yes m8, misspelling is an art you know :)
I tried to reply to your message but couldn't find a reply tag.
I originally was going to move to Murcia when I was planning to move here. My daughter spent a day looking around Mazarron for me and I was planning visiting the place myself the next time i was in Spain. Then I was looking at the weather patterns and it looks as though it gets really hot in the summer which wouldn't suit me. I'm right on the coast near Estepona and the weather is much milder which is perfect for me.
 
I have 2 nephews who have very serious business development roles in the NE.
They have both heard from separate sources that Nissan will be gone.
The Tories shut the coal mines and shipyards. Now they will get rid of nissan too.
The charity shops and foodbanks are going to be doing brisk business thanks to the lies of negro hating nigel and boris the wife basher.
The thing is with 'Nissan will move' is that it won't, it'll just kill off Sunderland over time.. the current models made there will continue to be until they are replaced.. and the replacements will be made elsewhere.

People take 'Nissan moving' literally and expect to see doors closing straight away... when that doesn't happen people will say Brexit never hurt. The reality is though that it will be a gradual decline - and the same goes for a lot of other business too.

It's very sad, I've conceded that there'll be some form of Brexit now but pretty disappointed. I just hope we can keep the UK together.
 
I have 2 nephews who have very serious business development roles in the NE.
They have both heard from separate sources that Nissan will be gone.
The Tories shut the coal mines and shipyards. Now they will get rid of nissan too.
The charity shops and foodbanks are going to be doing brisk business thanks to the lies of negro hating nigel and boris the wife basher.

Aye, with a little push from Brussels!
 
And what gain would Brussels achieve by Sunderland shipyards closing down? What power would they have to influence a British government to close shipyards in North Eastern England? Genuine questions.
Improved the competitiveness of other European yards.
 
Thatcher plain and simple.

I speak from having a grandad, dad who worked from the 1930s onwards until the Tories did their worst.

I’m not having any rewriting of history
Same with my family.. I was once in a pub down south with my Dad when a young 'Tory Boy' of the Harry Enfield and Gove type came and chatted to us - after a while he mentioned how amazing Thatcher was. I think my Dad got his point of view across clearly.
 
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Thatcher plain and simple.

I speak from having a grandad, dad who worked from the 1930s onwards until the Tories did their worst.

I’m not having any rewriting of history
My father worked down the pit all of his working life and thankfully he did not allow me to start an apprenticeship down the pit and therefore went in the shipyards instead. When the pits closed down. My father thought it was the best thing to happen. He also said Scargill and the unions were just as much to blame as Thatcher. Personally similar with the shipyards with all the strikes in the yards. We just did not compete with the rest of the world. That was the reality. Just my opinion and my fathers. for what it's worth. Having worked in shipping for 40 years.
 
My father worked down the pit all of his working life and thankfully he did not allow me to start an apprenticeship down the pit and therefore went in the shipyards instead. When the pits closed down. My father thought it was the best thing to happen. He also said Scargill and the unions were just as much to blame as Thatcher. Personally similar with the shipyards with all the strikes in the yards. We just did not compete with the rest of the world. That was the reality. Just my opinion and my fathers. for what it's worth. Having worked in shipping for 40 years.
The Tories always have enemies, strikes brought down a Tory government, the revenge came with thatcher in 79

it’s continued to this day with the Tories, divide and rule. Eg being thatchers “enemies within”. Also with her chancellor Nigel Lawson saying “unemployment is a price well worth paying”

I respect your opinion but that’s mine and I’ll never be swayed

look at Britain now. Completely divided and a Tory utopia if they get a majority.
 
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My father worked down the pit all of his working life and thankfully he did not allow me to start an apprenticeship down the pit and therefore went in the shipyards instead. When the pits closed down. My father thought it was the best thing to happen. He also said Scargill and the unions were just as much to blame as Thatcher. Personally similar with the shipyards with all the strikes in the yards. We just did not compete with the rest of the world. That was the reality. Just my opinion and my fathers. for what it's worth. Having worked in shipping for 40 years.
Having seen how some unions work I'm not surprised, I've seen pickets at Wilton and strikes from the best paid people on a construction site where rates were top end. Someone on a megaphone calling everyone 'brothers' and encouraging them to strike.. it was cringeworthy.. they should try being a sub contractor.
 
My father worked down the pit all of his working life and thankfully he did not allow me to start an apprenticeship down the pit and therefore went in the shipyards instead. When the pits closed down. My father thought it was the best thing to happen. He also said Scargill and the unions were just as much to blame as Thatcher. Personally similar with the shipyards with all the strikes in the yards. We just did not compete with the rest of the world. That was the reality. Just my opinion and my fathers. for what it's worth. Having worked in shipping for 40 years.
my old man who was also a miner, blamed Scargill too.
 
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Strange that mate I was stopping on my mates farm in France and it was exactly the opposite all his friends I met couldn’t wait to get out but they won’t let them have a vote so they must be all Little Francelanders <laugh>
I bet you just love last night of the proms.
 
Improved the competitiveness of other European yards.
So the British government improved the competitiveness of other European shipyards by closing down their own, how altruistic of them thinking of other countries before their own Sunderland shipyards. I will ask again, what benefit would the British government achieve by indirectly improving other European shipyards competitiveness?
 
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