Coal - the fuel of the future

[JimSh]

..... We are full.

Nope. Plenty of room, otherwise we wouldn't be granting so many work visas.

"There were 277,069 work-related visas granted in the year ending March 2022 (including dependants). This was a 129% increase on the year ending March 2021 and is 50% higher than in the year ending March 2020."
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2022/summary-of-latest-statistics

We're gonna need still more highly skilled , highly paid fruit pickers (Sorry - agricultural technicians)
 Crops are still being left to rot in the fields.

 “The government’s insufficient Brexit deal, far from being oven ready, actually means quality home-grown produce is left to rot, and leaves British supermarkets with no choice but to import, meaning consumers have less choice, less fresh produce and higher prices.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-british-food-supermarkets-farmers-b2092612.html

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/strawberries-fruit-pickers-brexit-168282

Of course they could always use Ukranians fleeing the war.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tory-mp-says-fleeing-ukrainians-should-apply-to-pick-fruit-and-veg-in-uk-313813/

Or just squeeze the plebs a bit more until they are willing to get their hands dirty.

We have control, we have sovereignty, it's what "we" voted for.
.............. or not.

Not me.

[madasafish]

I will not comment on Brexit .
But any Government seriously contemplating reintroducing the imperial system of measurements is clearly run by people who don't understand numbers , measurements and how easy or otherwise the competing systems are to use. Basically they consists of people whom one can safely treat as out of touch incompetent idiots.

[Kremmen]

Even though we've had metric for some time now I can't relate to it.

If you tell me something is a foot long or 18 inches I know immediately how long that is. Tell me something is 45cm long and I have no idea without getting a measure out.

Same with weight, tell me someone is 70kg and I have no idea whether that's thin, normal or fat.

[peteo48]

On metric there are certain things that will always be meaningless to me:

Litres per 100 kilometres - what does that even mean? Is 5 good or bad?

A half pound steak. What's that in grams? I know what a half pound steak looks and feels like. I can't get my head round 200 grams or 227 grams to be precise.

How much is a gallon of petrol these days? £1.80 per litre almost meaningless.

That said, the metric system is more logical. There's no harm in keeping imperial alongside it until the last of my generation has finally popped its clogs.

[embee]

185/60-R15 

People saying they don't understand metric units does remind me a little of the English (sic) tourist shouting ever more loudly in English at the foreign shop keeper.

Many years ago in my first proper job I had to work out moments of inertia of engineering assemblies, and the manager wanted it in imperial units.
"Slug.ft squared" anyone? No, I didn't think so.

(1 Slug = 32.2 lbs mass .................. don't ask ...............)

I have to confess, however, that I still think of small clearances in "thous", I know what 2 thou clearance is like, I still have to think twice about 50 microns.

Fuel consumption is an interesting one. It depends whether you want to know how far you can go on the fuel you have, or whether you want to know how much fuel you need to get where you want to go.

[Kremmen]

Some things never change.

Engine sizes have always been metric CC
Wheel sizes are still imperial inches

Must be more examples

[embee]

Engine sizes have always been metric CC

.. except for the USA, where cubic inches rule.

[JimSh]

I will not comment on Brexit .
But any Government seriously contemplating reintroducing the imperial system of measurements is clearly run by people who don't understand numbers , measurements and how easy or otherwise the competing systems are to use. Basically they consists of people whom one can safely treat as out of touch incompetent idiots.

It's not just substitution of metric units with imperial ones either they are planning to  replace about 1500 pieces of EU regulation.

"Plans being drawn up by Boris Johnson’s government to set an expiry date for great swathes of EU law currently in use in the UK could cause “chaos” for businesses, experts have warned."

"Mr Rees-Mogg is said to have told the cabinet earlier this month about the plan to set the expiry date on 1,500 pieces of EU regulation in a bid to “force radical thinking” from government departments."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-laws-rees-mogg-b2091659.html

I would have thought it would make more sense to do the thinking first.

Edit. typo

[embee]

....I would have thought it would make more sense to do the thinking first......

You'll never be a politician, Jim. 

This makes slightly more sobering reading, I wonder how much of it will be taken into account by the Mogglodite.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/taking-back-control-regulation.pdf

[JimSh]

....I would have thought it would make more sense to do the thinking first......

You'll never be a politician, Jim. 

This makes slightly more sobering reading, I wonder how much of it will be taken into account by the Mogglodite.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/taking-back-control-regulation.pdf

Thank goodness for that.
Meanwhile  they say they want to adopt Daily Express readers' ideas
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1618395/Brexit-news-Boris-Johnson-2000-ideas-Jacob-Rees-Mogg-suggestions-EU-rules-update

and cut civil service jobs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61432498
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/05/civil-service-cuts-will-leave-whitehall-unable-to-cope-with-brexit-workload
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