Your town. Your news. Your take.

Local News: United Kingdom 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

 
Advertisment

To Shanghai in style LONDON TAXIS IN CHINA

London Taxis are as British as bowler hats and Big Ben. But the latest models coming off a new assembly line are unlikely to ever touch an English road.

Full Story: The Morning Call

Read All 5 Comments

Comments

Showing posts 1 - 5 of 5

“Think”

Joined: Mar 15, 2007

Comments: 3099

Somerset, NJ

|
Report Abuse
|
Judge it!
|
#1
Sep 5, 2008
 
First Jaguar & Land Rover, now this...tough time to be an iconic UK automobile.

Joined: May 3, 2007

Comments: 3003

Bethlehem, PA

|
Report Abuse
|
Judge it!
|
#2
Sep 5, 2008
 
Good Lord, is the whole world selling out to China?!

“Think”

Joined: Mar 15, 2007

Comments: 3099

Somerset, NJ

|
Report Abuse
|
Judge it!
|
#3
Sep 5, 2008
 
MeeMee wrote:
Good Lord, is the whole world selling out to China?!
Actually, Jaguar and Land Rover went to India :)

Joined: May 3, 2007

Comments: 3003

Bethlehem, PA

|
Report Abuse
|
Judge it!
|
#4
Sep 5, 2008
 
Allentown_Frank wrote:
<quoted text>
Actually, Jaguar and Land Rover went to India :)
I had just finished reading an article about how a grip-tite (or whatever it is called) tool company is laying off everyone and moving production to China.

“Think”

Joined: Mar 15, 2007

Comments: 3099

Somerset, NJ

|
Report Abuse
|
Judge it!
|
#5
Sep 5, 2008
 
MeeMee wrote:
<quoted text>I had just finished reading an article about how a grip-tite (or whatever it is called) tool company is laying off everyone and moving production to China.
Vise-Grip...and that was was US-based, not UK.

For a long time, I've thought that we needed a Sputnik-like kickstart in our science/math curriculum nationwide. These types of manufacturing jobs are likely to never return, but if we don't ready ourselves, we'll never be in a position to replace them with the innovative jobs of the future.

With the Chinese financing most our debt, we're going to have to really start to innovate if we want to maintain our place as an economic work leader.
Showing posts 1 - 5 of 5
Type in your comments to post to the forum
Name
(appears on your post)
Comments
Type the numbers you see in the image on the right:

Please note by clicking on "Post Comment" you acknowledge that you have read the Terms of Service and the comment you are posting is in compliance with such terms. Be polite. Inappropriate posts may be removed by the moderator. Send us your feedback.

Other Recent United Kingdom Discussions

Search the United Kingdom Forum:
Topic Updated Last By Comments
NewLabourNeoCons want to give bailiffs powers t... 5 min Joginder Sin... 14
DANGER as Crazy Scientists exposed - want PLAN ... 24 min STOP CHEMTRAILS 1
Al Gore's Inconvenient Mistake 40 min You Are Nuts 25
Britain's 'betrayed' white working classes 1 hr Jimmy Dancer 17
How Michael Jackson Out Sings, Outsells, Outper... 1 hr InDaHouse 79
Wolseley may put Stock Building Supply on sale ... 1 hr NOIMNOTMAD 2474
Obama wants the UK to accept Guantanamo inmates 3 hr HHC 16
Related Topix Forums: World News, Automakers, England, United Kingdom, Coventry, England
See all threads in the United Kingdom forum »