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  1. najaB

    Brexit matters

    Given the mess that was UKCA, I'm not sure that argument holds any water.
  2. najaB

    Brexit matters

    Funny you mention that, the EU being the second-largest economy on the planet and all...
  3. najaB

    Pyrotechnics at sports stadium

    Many (most?) things in life are not needed. Doesn't make them any less cool though.
  4. najaB

    Brexit matters

    In fact, they do. Their standards are low, but they do have some and don't (on paper at least) allow entry to goods that have been made using slave labour (which is rich considering that they produce good domestically using unpaid labour), nor will they allow in goods that don't meet their...
  5. najaB

    Brexit matters

    Add to that the fact that most of the world isn't next to us. Proximity shouldn't be dismissed where trade in goods is concerned. Why should a manufacturer in Thailand buy UK-made widgets that will take three weeks to arrive when they can buy widgets from Singapore that will take three days?
  6. najaB

    East Kilbride/Barrhead electrification updates

    Possibly silly question, but is it going to be mainly twin-track cantilevers or do they still need to pile on the other side?
  7. najaB

    Brexit matters

    It isn't, in itself, wrong to pay people differently for doing the same job - where the difference in pay is justified by differences in skill or ability. But there is something fundamentally unfair with a system that allowed the situation where a trainer (agency) was earning less than the...
  8. najaB

    Ferrybridge Power Station

    Fair enough. I was answering the question of what industrial purposes CO2 has.
  9. najaB

    Brexit matters

    The fundamental unfairness and the reason why it was morally wrong was that employers were able to use a loophole in employment law to get away with paying people less for doing the same amount of work (or, in many cases, much more). It wasn't a matter of paying them less because of skills or...
  10. najaB

    3 month old 737-9 Max depressurisation incident

    To be fair, small bits like that fall off... well, maybe not all the time, but reguarly.
  11. najaB

    Ferrybridge Power Station

    Industrial uses (carbonation of drinks being a common one, along with solvent extraction), stunning animals before slaughter, cooling purposes.
  12. najaB

    Ferrybridge Power Station

    To some extent yes, it is just box ticking. However, it's a lot easier to bring an dilapidated but extant railhead into service than one that doesn't exist if and when a user eventually shows up.
  13. najaB

    Ferrybridge Power Station

    As you ask, who might use it. There are plenty of industrial users who might, with a distribution centre being most likely. Depending on what other users exist on site, then a consolidation centre might also be feasible. And it's a lot easier to use a connection that exists than it is to...
  14. najaB

    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Disagree. Let's change the target of the statement: "Whenever I see a Honda Civic, it makes me hate all Japanese cars. All Honda Civics should be sent to the crusher." How can that be taken as anything other than expressing hatred for Honda Civics specifically, and all Japanese cars generally?
  15. najaB

    Brexit matters

    We're not talking about high-skilled office jobs. We're talking about contact centre operatives, hospitality workers, social care jobs and the likes. What part of the concept that, before the equal pay for agency workers rules were put in place by the EU, it was perfectly legal for companies...
  16. najaB

    Brexit matters

    That was exactly why the contact centre industry used agency staff - Search being the one that I was employed by before I got a permanent contract, and Manpower being the one that was used by my previous employer. Back then they typically paid barely over minimum wage. The bump in pay when/if...
  17. najaB

    Brexit matters

    Indeed. A permanent staff member had to go through a consultation process, and be given the opportunity to move to a new role, and got severance pay in case of redundancy, etc. A Manpower person could just be told on Friday not to show up on Monday.
  18. najaB

    Brexit matters

    Many of our agency workers had been in their jobs for five plus years. Which points to the whole reason why they used agency workers - simply because they could pay them less. Once it became as expensive (or more) to have them as agency, a whole lot of permanent contracts suddenly became...
  19. najaB

    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    As I understand it, the limitation is on foreign state ownership of media companies, but there's no limit on foreign corporations. It does make sense to stop other governments from directly controlling our media.

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