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+8Rich #821109 06/04/25 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by +8Rich
Thank you for that Sportster, phenomenal figures..

I think you have more than enough skilled workers to cope with 200 tiny Morgan's a year rofl it's laughable to think you didn't when NASA exists and it all feeds down and folk seem to have forgotten all about Henry Ford carrot and Enola Gay, bigotry comes to mind people need to look at the pathetic state of UK manufacturing, we have JCB......

So Lord Bamford quietly goes about his business whilst everyone else wastes effort moaning cool


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Interesting economic experiment seeing if tariffs work for a country adopting a protectionist policy.


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Originally Posted by +8Rich
So Lord Bamford quietly goes about his business whilst everyone else wastes effort moaning cool

Not such good news for British JCB employees though. Looks like Bamford is increasing his US operations to get round tariffs if the kit is British-built. Moving production overseas is rarely a good idea from the domestic perspective (see JLR, Dyson, Ineos, etc etc)


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Originally Posted by +8Rich
Originally Posted by Sportster
Massive protests against this administration throughout the U.S. today. Hope this got reported across the pond.

This is one report.

And here but not as much as I expected.

Yeah, surprisingly little in the UK press given that some estimates are that more than 5 million people turned out to protest.


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Originally Posted by Hamwich
Originally Posted by +8Rich
So Lord Bamford quietly goes about his business whilst everyone else wastes effort moaning cool

Not such good news for British JCB employees though. Looks like Bamford is increasing his US operations to get round tariffs if the kit is British-built. Moving production overseas is rarely a good idea from the domestic perspective (see JLR, Dyson, Ineos, etc etc)
I think the implication is that he intends to increase market share over there as opposed to reducing the workforce here, which incidentally I see growing with the invention of his hydrogen power units particularly in the EU.

I hope I'm not being overly optimistic on this one but I don't imagine him wanting hydrogen power units.

So a good win as also supplies more jobs to USA blue collar workers, which the Gibbon seems intent on exterminating in his new world.


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Yes, that’s what I’m reading, estimates are over 5 million protesters, and about everything this administration is doing. There were over 1200 protest events across the country. I think that’s a substantial turnout.

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Yes and so early in his administration, he should be concerned banghead


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Originally Posted by +8Rich
Originally Posted by Hamwich
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So Lord Bamford quietly goes about his business whilst everyone else wastes effort moaning cool

Not such good news for British JCB employees though. Looks like Bamford is increasing his US operations to get round tariffs if the kit is British-built. Moving production overseas is rarely a good idea from the domestic perspective (see JLR, Dyson, Ineos, etc etc)
I think the implication is that he intends to increase market share over there as opposed to reducing the workforce here, which incidentally I see growing with the invention of his hydrogen power units particularly in the EU.

I hope I'm not being overly optimistic on this one but I don't imagine him wanting hydrogen power units.

So a good win as also supplies more jobs to USA blue collar workers, which the Gibbon seems intent on exterminating in his new world.

Very little point in moving production to USA other than for domestic demand as any exported JCB's from US will inevitably face reciprocal tariffs in other markets, that wont be incurred in the same way if exported from the UK.


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Very little point in moving production to USA other than for domestic demand as any exported JCB's from US will inevitably face reciprocal tariffs in other markets, that wont be incurred in the same way if exported from the UK.
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