I accept that we have always been a trading nation Annie, but we’re not a trading nation now, we just buy stuff in.
We don’t need to go on rations either, wouldn’t it be better to kick start our own industries, create jobs and still receive imports until we can do it ourselves. We are going the other way, gradually closing down parts of industry and farming. Losing skills and workers to other countries. And I don’t blame them. Even foreign workers that came here have given up on us and are going home. We are building a collection of the worlds idle and benefit seekers that nobody else wants.
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OGF I think people who know more than we do about food security, energy security etc have checked and there’s no way that we can sustain a population of 70 million without imports.
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I could suggest something that I think would solve the problem, but suffice to say we could do a lot more than we are doing now to become more self sufficient, and that doesn’t include covering prime farmland in solar panels.
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Yes, why is that?
It couldn’t be because we have allowed ourselves to get lazy and let the Americans do all the hard work. Doesn’t that tell us a lot about globalism and how it’s not working.
If we had got our finger out when we had the chance and capitalised on North Sea oil and gas like Maggie suggested we did, we would not be blaming an American president for everything that is wrong with the world.
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presumably it would involve covering farmland in night soil? there’s no shortage of that in Britain!
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Exactly what hard work have these ever so generous Americans being doing for us? Dragging us into Iraq and Afghanistan perhaps? Selling us wildly expensive fighter jets?
I do not buy into this myth pushed by Trump that the west owes the US bigly for all its expenditure on its own military. Especially when he then goes and starts this war against Iran.
For many years we did and Thatcher’s role here was to waste it all away on tax cuts for the already wealthy.
But perhaps read my post of 21 hours ago - when I wondered if there might be merit in opening up new oil fields for the UK.
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Not sure what country your referring to. The country which is your home now, France wasn’t involved. Or the UK!
I agree the United States of America should not go in to the UK and force their soldiers and equipment to Iraq and Afghanistan. But the facts are UK decided to go. Have to learn, other governments can’t force another government to do things they don’t want to.
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As Donald has been finding out…
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That the UK is on such disarray. Correct
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We appear to be ok-ish in the UK in terms of supply, just that costs will go up, it’s the Philippines and other countries in that part of Asia that are most affected by the blockage. They just showed protests in the Philippines on the news as they only have 45 days of oil left.
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That’s okay then Annie…
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Well it’s not okay but at least we aren’t coming to a standstill like some nations
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I was being facetious Annie…
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hard to tell as you had a keir starmer smilie
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That was a naughty smile Annie, it’s how most of my posts end…
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