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Good morning everyone.
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The "Mad" Donald Trump seems determined to declare war on anyone who is not an American (provided that they agree with him,), or any organisation that threatens the American dominance. This time it is Bombardier where Trump has slapped a 300% tariff on aircraft built by Bombardier in Northern Ireland, putting more than 1000 British jobs at risk .
Boeing went to court in America (where else?) bleating that Bombardier had received unfair, anti-competitive state support. The irony is that Boeing did not even bid for the Delta airlines contract which Bombardier won with its C300 aircraft.
The American court agreed (surprise, surprise) and found in favour of Boeing. Along comes Trump and slaps on the punitive levy.
For those who do not know, Boeing has for many decades been practising some very dubious tactics when dealing with their aircraft production and sales in competition with non US manufactures. In this, they have been aided, supported and abetted by successive American administrations and by the FAA and other regulatory bodies. Boeing and their American cohorts were responsible for killing off TSR2 and more recently Concord, because Boeing were years behind in SST technology.
This is and has been for many years, a scandal of immense proportions. We should immediately retaliate and slap a punitive levy on all American imports and should lobby for the EU to do likewise.
The American court agreed (surprise, surprise) and found in favour of Boeing. Along comes Trump and slaps on the punitive levy.
For those who do not know, Boeing has for many decades been practising some very dubious tactics when dealing with their aircraft production and sales in competition with non US manufactures. In this, they have been aided, supported and abetted by successive American administrations and by the FAA and other regulatory bodies. Boeing and their American cohorts were responsible for killing off TSR2 and more recently Concord, because Boeing were years behind in SST technology.
This is and has been for many years, a scandal of immense proportions. We should immediately retaliate and slap a punitive levy on all American imports and should lobby for the EU to do likewise.
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A party not acting in the interests of the country.
The Conservative party is disintegrating before our eyes with mounting pressure for the resignation of Prime Minister Teresa May. The cause of this growing dissatisfaction with the leadership is not only the disastrous decision to call a general election back in June, or the calamitous party conference in Manchester nor even the lamentable "negotiations" in respect of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, but an accumulation of negative effects all of which are self inflicted.
Read the full blog at: http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/a-party-not-acting-in-interests-of.html
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Whether you like him or loathe him, Lewis Hamilton ranks amongst the greatest F1 drivers of all time.
Ayrton Senna, Juan Mannuel Fangio, Alain Prost , Jim Clark, Niki Lauda , Nigel Mansell, are in my opinion the really great drivers who had the courage and skills rather than reliance on the car and its engineers. That is why Micheal Schumacher does not get into my list. At the time when he was winning the F1 drivers championship, Ferrari was the greatest car on the circuit and was technically streets ahead of all the rest in speed, reliability and design. Anyone, even I, could have won the F1 championship driving that car. Hamilton on the other hand is different. He has already won three championships (it should have been four but FIA stopped one on very dubious grounds) and now homes in on the fourth which he may well take in the United States GP in Austin Texas next Sunday week, with only three races left after that..
I sincerely hope that those who determine the "Honours lists" for services to sport (not sure that I approve of that anyway) do not go over the top again in dishing out knighthood's this year.
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The Conservative Party Conference 2017 will be memorable, (but only for a few short weeks), for being the most boring and repetitive Conservative Conference since records began.
What should be a catalogue of policy options and visions for the future, has become and promises to remain for the much heralded Theresa May keynote speech scheduled for later today (Wednesday) the last day of the conference. This conference has consisted of no more than 20% "policy" proposals and 80% unashamed attack on the Labour party generally and on Jeremy Corbyn in particular.
Read the full blog at: http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/the-most-boring-and-repetitive
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Last Sunday saw the most outrageous display of state thuggery against democracy.
The people of Catalonia, whether they voted "Yes" or "No", might expect better from the government of a country which replaced a dictatorship with democracy. The state intervention seizing ballot boxes, firing rubber bullets, smashing into polling stations, attacking, with savage ferocity, people who's only "crime" was queueing to cast a vote, has been on television screens around the world.
These were the actions of a police state dictatorship, rather than a democracy within the European Union.
The weather remains wet, warm and cold. It promises to become very windy and wet and cold or warm for the next seven days. The Daily Express (who else) is predicting heavy snow over the next week. They seem very confused. I know that I am.
Have a nice week
John
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