Brexit, for once some facts.

oldgroaner

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... Agreed. There is nothing wrong with your brightest 2% of students, they are the cream of a 60 million population and are just as bright and able as the top few percentage in France or Germany. Or as bright as the top 6% from India or 2% from Brazil etc. . But they then enter into a culture which does not value engineering expertise, manufacturing or agribusiness. How many of the brightest and best move into finance and banking or politics all of which are basically zero sum games?.
Too right this is how the powers that be view us Engineers

I love that cartoon it is so true!
 

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Agreed, and then as posted they'll emigrate for jobs or end up in dead end employment.
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How dare you denigrate McDonald's like that?
Just kidding but at Hull University the Post Graduate vocational training includes how to respond the the request "Big Mac and Fries" and not cringe.
 
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What resource? they are fished out and North Sea Oil is on it's last legs! And as the icing on the cake we have scrapped our inshore fishing fleet anyway.
Oh dear!
West of Shetland is where the oil is being found. Not strictly the North Sea but there's loads there. Dinnae fret, there's enough to keep us going.
 
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oldgroaner

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West of Shetland is where the oil is being found. Not strictly the North Sea but there's loads there. Dinnae fret, there's enough to keep us going.
Ah well Laddie it will be Failte gu Saor an-asgaidh Alba
When Independence comes (or not as it were) D'ye Ken?
 
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Nice one, but no doubt Electric Cars will arrive before it does and the Oil market will tank knowing or luck, that is assuming of course that the extraction rights haven't been sold off already (as usual)
We've already agreed 50/50 share with Argentina, so with it already having poor viability at that remote spot, it may not be tapped for many years. Nobody needs it at what it will cost at present, since we have a world glut of low priced oil at present.
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oldgroaner

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I wondered how the Government was going to sell accepting Free Movement of people after Brexit to the Brexit voters, and here is the opening shot from the Express.
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'Stopping EU payments is MORE important for Brexiteers than border controls', poll reveals
LEAVE voters think stopping payments to the EU should be a higher priority for Brexit negotiators than control over free movement, a poll has shown.

Will they be stupid enough to fall for it?
Now it is presented as "The Will of the People"
Who can argue with that without being accused of being "Unpatriotic?"

Interestingly the readers comments are not buying it at all.
 
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An example of what to expect after Brexit from the Torys
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Almost 800 straight-A British students are being denied a place at medical school despite a 'crippling' national shortage of medics that has forced the NHS to recruit 6,000 foreign doctors
  • Last year 770 students with excellent grades were rejected by medical schools
  • As a result some of the brightest British students are having to train abroad
  • Thousands of foreign doctors hired despite being more likely to be struck off for blunders

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4394302/770-straight-students-t-place-medical-school.html#ixzz4djDORqfv
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The Government says it takes £230,000 to fully train each doctor in the UK because of the higher costs of delivering medical education, and critics claim the number of places available at universities is capped to save taxpayers’ money.


Must look after the bottom line, what has the Public Good got to do with the Government anyway?
 
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