Opinion Kilcrohane's view of the Automotive Industry and Global Economy. Part Deux.

[BMW4ever]

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- looks like they got the work experience guy/gal/xth gender to nip down to Wickes and get the end of line £10 jig saw - except the door was already unlocked - course it was, the whole thing was a PR stunt.

Such professionalism. Note the first rozzer picks up a can or something with bare hands - so not staged at all for the lunchtime TV cameras, and it's all above board for forensics etc.

They're rattled, though - the state and their muscle/lackeys - Plod. The killing of a lovely little girl, they know they can't smooth over with the usual PR and lies. 'Liverpool 8' - Toxteth - was synonymous with crime and a certain ethnicity way back in the 80s, when I was a student there.

Little story: my car was nicked, an old Ford Escort. Rang the police to report it, at around 11 pm. At around 3/4 am, heavy banging on the front door of the student digs hovel, and two, burly, plain clothes cops, probably CID, made a huge song and dance of having collared the perp - 'we got the c**n who nicked your car'. Except, we and the other guys saw the car being driven off, and it was 3/4 white guys - scallies. I foolishly said this, just in those words, to the cops, and they were fit to do me - hit me, or charge me. They left saying I would need to attend court, for the case. Next day, went half away across the city, to the other side of the Anglican cathedral, to pick it up from a police pound. Again, surly, near 'we'll do you' attitude, and the car recovered. Never heard from them again. It had been nicked, joyridden, and then dumped - miles away - and then nicked again, by the suntanned gentleman.

 

[KiwiRob]

The Soviets installed the current regime in the North, which was modelled on Stalin's Russia. China was involved in the Korean War as well as Russia, they backed the North's invasion of the South. The CCP took over the Chinese mainland via a coup, which was also backed by the USSR. Et voila, two of the sh1ttiest regimes ever were created by a 3rd one of the same.

Korean War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Chinese Communist Revolution - Wikipedia

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South Korea and Taiwan became free democracies.

200k was the approximate number for the Anfal attack alone, not all of Saddam's gas attack, or the extent of his lives lost.

Regime killed 2 million

www.smh.com.au

Al-Quaeda had infested the place and Bin Laden, it's head, was there. The UN also approved that intervention. I think it's you and the other guy who are trying to re-write history.

do you read the article you linked.

The Soviets installed the current regime in the North, which was modelled on Stalin's Russia. China was involved in the Korean War as well as Russia, they backed the North's invasion of the South. The CCP took over the Chinese mainland via a coup, which was also backed by the USSR. Et voila, two of the sh1ttiest regimes ever were created by a 3rd one of the same.

Korean War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Chinese Communist Revolution - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

South Korea and Taiwan became free democracies.

200k was the approximate number for the Anfal attack alone, not all of Saddam's gas attack, or the extent of his lives lost.

Regime killed 2 million

www.smh.com.au

Al-Quaeda had infested the place and Bin Laden, it's head, was there. The UN also approved that intervention. I think it's you and the other guy who are trying to re-write history.

Do you read and fully comprehend the articles you linked? I don’t think you do, you’re like BMW4Ever you pick the bits which suit your agenda and disregard the rest.

 

[BMW4ever]

Soros broke the £ in 1992. Wonder if her has a son now doing the same:

Government borrowing costs hit highest since financial crisis as traders bet on sharp rate rises

UK short-term borrowing costs have jumped to a post-financial crisis high as traders increase bets on faster Bank of England interest rate rises and a looming recession.

www.telegraph.co.uk

History of Yesterday: Uncovering the Events That Shaped Our World

History of Yesterday delves into the rich tapestry of our past to uncover the people, events, and cultures that have shaped the world we know today.

historyofyesterday.com

Let's cut to the chase - the 'gnomes of Zurich' as Harold Wilson used to call them are betting everything on the £ soon being at parity with the $, and then falling further, like the €.

They know it's a one-way bet - can't lose. If the Mad Hag Truss doesn't do anything on energy bills in 2 weeks time, there'll be riots, mass disorder, civil and otherwise disobedience - UK following Sri Lanka. The £ will tank, as London becomes no-go for the world's billion- and trillionaires - Mogadishu on the Thames.

If the Mad Hag announces up to £100bn in the state paying energy companies, to keep the plebs from freezing to death, the £ tanks, as that money is fake - Weimar UK.

So, these 'clever people', bankers, currency traders, sons of Soros, know it's a done deal, and will fill their boots.

Anarchy in the UK. With the display by Plod yesterday in Liverpool, I'd bet nothing on order being restored any time before Doomsday. They'll be too busy doing the safety assessment check lists, and making sure the riot squad is ethnic and gender balanced, and then they'll realise it's time for the coffee and doughnut break, after 2 hours of slaving away, sitting in cars and the riot bus.

Orwell was wrong. UK will end with a joke, not bowel-emptying tyranny. Its elites were always jokes, fey, effete, non-men men.

 

[WBarnes]

do you read the article you linked.


Do you read and fully comprehend the articles you linked? I don’t think you do, you’re like BMW4Ever you pick the bits which suit your agenda and disregard the rest.

Yes, I read it. What's your point? Much like BMW4ever, you never seem to have one.

 

[BMW4ever]

UK officially a global laughing-stock, and insane:

Boris Johnson supporters tantalisingly close to their dream of a veto on PM’s ousting

Petition calling for constitution to be altered to allow vote on whether to accept premier’s resignation nears required 10,000 signatures

www.telegraph.co.uk

Like the society of Victorian street-walkers looking for Jack the Ripper to be their head.

Stockholm syndrome doesn't cover it. Nor masochism. The British, 'Middle England', are batsh!t insane, begging someone who detests them and has sent hundreds of thousands, millions of them to an early grave, their children ruined for (a contracted) life, pauperised them, obvious to a blind man been the gofer and puppet of the globalist 0.01%, to be their leader and saviour - like the Felon Muskrat thing and his brain-addled moron disciples thing - on steroids.

Like John Betjeman said about Slough and bombs, 'come friendly Ruskie nukes and fall on UK' - put it out of its misery.

 

[BMW4ever]

On the day at least half of the UK population is no richer than a Russian tsarist serf - at least they could probably collect firewood - 'Renewables' is clocking in at a massive:

THREE GWs - ~10% of demand.

Fairly sunny today too.

Wait until 7pm, or mid October, a similar, near-windless today, and the sun gone down at 5 pm - clocks gone back.

That's when the fun starts.

The crackpot 'experts' - women with psychology/media degrees - are on the radio this morning saying: 'we need more renewables. To be self-sufficient, independent of the tyrant Putin'.

And that's how UK failed, became THE global laughing-stock, an open air lunatic asylum of near 80m 'people' - mindless, cultish - the Green God Gaia - zombie morons.

Doesn't matter if you triple 'Renewables'. When you need power, on a cold, grey, still, September to mid June day, you need energy, not morons spouting off about sacrifices to their Green God. What next? Children offered, burnt, to sate the angry Green gods, when the wind doesn't blow?

I'd put nothing past the modern, imbecilic, insane Brit.

In the 26th century, a Mel Gibson of his day will be doing Apocalypto - how a race of people on a tiny, cold island in the Atlantic went mad, offering their children to the Gods, to make the wind blow, and tore out the hearts of people who said 'follow the science' was bollox. The High Priest was a fat little man, given to blow jobs, and his cu()tish disciples adored him.

 

[BMW4ever]

How brave. Coming out now, and stating the obvious. Central, eastern Europe gets it - their winters are cold, and up to 6 months long.

"I'm Afraid" - Czech President Blames "Green Madness" For Energy Crisis | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

UK pols, on the payroll 'scientists', the general population under 45 yrs old, still believe they live in a sub-tropical climate due to 35 years of brainwashing.

Older and a bit wiser pols in central and eastern Europe that lived under overt Communism - making you believe 2+2=5 or else - are just saying that 2022 Europe/EU is what the eastern bloc was in the 1970s - grinding poverty for the masses and lies daily from Pravda etc. And if you didn't like it, you became an "enemy of the state".

 

[BMW4ever]

'Just a sweet, albeit somewhat odd, little Swedish schoolgirl, who wanted to save the world and humanity' - Feel conned yet?:

What a coincidence! Greta Thunberg is related to the Rothschild Clan | Principia Scientific, Intl.

Greta Thunberg is a blood relative of the notorious Rothschild chain of nation-buyers. It explains much about the precocious adolescent’s celebrity status.

principia-scientific.com

 

[BMW4ever]

ready for £1/kWh, £2/kWh - home charging? Who but the very rich, very advised by the best 'tax efficiency' accountants will buy an EV then? Up to £1 per mile for something like a real-world 150-200 miles(winter-summer) range I-Pace?:

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Academic anyway. Heavy electricity users - i.e. home-charging EV owners - have basically been told, for definite, already, that they will have their plug pulled. If you have a smart meter - sucker! - kiss goodbye to your EV(s) home-charging.

Chris Huhne, remember him, the Liberal jailbird, who tried to dodge a speeding fine, was on LBC this afternoon - he now fronts Biogas - saying that he's heard 'from the centre', that powercuts are definite - already planned-in(this winter). To wit:

"Are you war-gaming possible options for if/when cross-border trading collapses under security of supply pressures this winter?"

And another: "Can we have a session where we talk through the emergency arrangements?"

Another participant said that the forecast for demand-and-supply electricity balance showed "how bad the winter could be for anyone who can do the maths."

The same caller was blunt about the grid's own predictions: "I don't think you believe what you've written, and nobody else does."

- in other words, National Grid, the UK state, has long been planning for literally pulling the plug on 'non-essential users' - i.e. you and me - we're "non-essential".

If you have an EV(s), and it's your only car(s), and you have a "Smart" meter, you're basically knackered. Your only choice will be public charging. Good luck with that. In UK, especially after the full break down of law and order begins, these will be destroyed, either because of jealousy, or just vandalism, or people trying to tap into electricity, or the copper cut and stolen.

If you find one that works - reminiscent of Escape from New York/Mad Max, and finding some gasoline - it'll probably cost over £2/kWh by next April.

'They' want to break you. EV was a trap, a part of it. Now you must see it. They want you freezing, starving, and stuck in your hovel, your mental health going down, contemplating ending it, and the hovel you'll soon lose anyway, to pay astronomical bills, or sign away in return for 'guaranteed for life' UBI, 'health care', and 'free' utilities.

 

[BMW4ever]

D'ya think the penny might be starting to drop with The Great British Public - that the Scamdemic was just the warm-up act for the main act - The Great Reset - 'you will own nothing and be happy'? Bit late, though:

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It's gotten out of hand now.
Local farm shops bill is £2k month now, just been quoted £6k in October.
Lady in Bath runs a glass blowing studio, £10k / month, quoted £100k...
Small and independents that made it through the scamdemic are going to be crushed.

er, yep - that's The (WEF/'Elites') Plan.

This is, for the UK, what They - then called the Bolsheviks, now 'Globalists' - did to the Ukraine people in the 1930s - 'Holodomor' - stole their wheat, their animals, land, and forced those that remained into 'Collectivisation' - 'you will own nothing and be (forced to be) happy'.

Around 11 million died, starved to death. Think it's all 'tinfoil hat Conspiracy Theory' now?

 

[BMW4ever]

Smart metered? EV owner? In UK? See the future - 2-3 months - but without the 25-30 deg. C pleasant weather, and a 'vibrant' society that will not attack you while waiting, for your smartphone, watch, and maybe your wife/kids:

EV Charging Line in Chengdu (China) amid Power Shortage

https://www.eletric-vehicles.comFollow us on Twitter and Instagram.

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[BMW4ever]

He's bricking it:

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His figures are for the birds. An ID.4, the most typical, average EV there, will do over 20 kWh/100 km for 9 months of the year in UK - heating, demisting, lights, wipers, head/cross winds, rain resistance on road, cold car, cold battery, etc. And then there's up to 4/5 persons loading, if it's the one/family car - which these 'tests' rarely/never show - up to 250 kg extra weight.

You're looking at 20p per mile. A good diesel will do 50 mpg average - real-world, averaged around the year. Even at £1.80/litre, say £8/imp.gal. that's 16p per mile.

He knows the '(home-charging) EV is (far) cheaper' thing has gone - been wiped out overnight, annihilated.

AND so's his business. I couldn't care less. 'EV' was built on the biggest lie in history - until the Scamdemic - CAGW/greenhouse gases/'fossil' fuels.

If he's moderately bright, he knows that. So is a charlatan, and not far off crook - taking/making money under false pretences.

If he doesn't know, he's a cretin, and deserves a station in life befitting his 'talents' - secondhand car salesman.

 

[BMW4ever]

That's one bubble well and truly pricked - the Defender 'sure fire flipper territory' thing - many greedy, stupid bastards now furiously dialling 111/999 for non-existent NHS/ambulances, for their severe burns:

Land Rover Defender cars for sale - PistonHeads UK

Looking for a Land Rover Defender? Find your ideal Land Rover Defender from top dealers and private sellers in your area with PistonHeads Classifieds.

www.pistonheads.com

Arnold Clark: £60k
WBAC: £65k

- yeah, yeah, I'm sure the 'owner' - flipper - will say it's truly unique, not another one like it, unlike the tens of thousands identical churned out by Nitra in the last 3 years, and so worth +£20k above its market value.

Told you. The (fake, bubble) market has collapsed. The Ofgem thing on Friday was the final straw. I knew rich/flipper petrolhead places like Pistonheads would be inundated with 'change of circumstances', 'now WFH', 'company car forces sale', etc, etc bilge this weekend, and so it has happened.

There'll be a huge oversupply, against next to no demand. Who in their right mind is going to pay £60k never mind £85k on a 'look at me' huge lump of silliness that does barely 30 mpg average, and is losing about a £500 a week at the moment, and only going to accelerate?

The car market, in UK, is F'ed, gone. There's loads of idiots out there who think their cars are special, rare, unique, cost a fortune to buy in the last 12-18 months, so should be worth a lot. They're f'ing idiots, not just greedy idiots.

Same with housing, of course.

The next shoe to drop, will be EV residuals. 'Posh SUVs', below £250k/500k, has gone. They're just mass market dross - Autobiographys, SVRs, AMG 63s, etc.

A few more weeks, and all those ridiculous Model 3s/Ys etc for sale, at a premium, or just a few £k off rrp for cars up to 2 years/~40,000 miles old, will go the same way as that Defender above - almost no market - no price where demand materialises.

EVs are 'go/no-go'. They either make sense or they don't. They're just appliances, no emotional attachment, so if they don't stack up on the pennies, pounds side, there's no market, no demand for them, unlike beloved bangers that some fool will buy for nostalgia of the car that dad had.

Welcome to the Wild West. Only the sharpest shooters and quickest drawers survive. It's a bloodbath.

 

[BMW4ever]

I think the Big End's gone, or a rod's been thrown, on the 'Are you a shallow, soulless, money-grubbing dickhead? Want to 'invest' in a bag of nails with Ford Transit mechanicals, bone-shaker ride, no room to swing a cat, elbows out the window on the coldest days of the year, with appalling 'reliability'? You do? Really??? Then sign here, That'll be £60/70/80... k. Bargain!' tulip mania-exceeding bubble that affected, afflicted Middle England since the GFC of 2008-10, aka 'JLR' and housing:

Land Rover Defender cars for sale - PistonHeads UK

Looking for a Land Rover Defender? Find your ideal Land Rover Defender from top dealers and private sellers in your area with PistonHeads Classifieds.

www.pistonheads.com

WBAC: £31.6k

- still pretty pricey for a 1983 90 with a Ford Transit engine.

 

[BMW4ever]

JLR should be coining it:

1. £/$ parity soon

2. according to Merc1 and Scott27 JLR has centuries-long waiting lists in the US

- so why aren't they?

Pound To Dollar Rate Slumps To 2-Year Lows On Powell Dollar Surge

Pound to Dollar Rate Slumps to 2-Year Lows on Powell Dollar Surge

www.exchangerates.org.uk

 

[BMW4ever]

'Chip Shortage' = no demand:

'No Land Rover Discovery, Evoque and Velar models will be built through September due to parts shortages but some production continues with the Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Defender.

Jaguar XE, XF and F-Pace models are also on stop but F-Type will still be assembled.'

Jaguar suspends production amid parts shortages

Jaguar Land Rover is facing assembly problems at its plants in September. Ironically, its only full electric model, the I-Pace assembled by Magna International in Graz, Austria, is also on stop at a time when demand for electric cars is surging. No Land Rover Discovery, Evoque and Velar models...

www.wales247.co.uk

- they've just come back from the summer shutdown/holiday, so why 'suspend' production now? If you really had a chronic parts/parts supply shortage, ongoing for around 2 years supposedly, you would know this was coming, from months ago, and just add this 'pause' to the general, annual, summer shutdown.

It's bollox-all to do with it. Those cars are not selling. There's probably fields of them somewhere, or on disused WWII airfields like Fen End, Warks.

As we've seen, Defender has gone off the deep end, the Flipping thing crashed and burned. The other two cars supposedly 'selling', are just newish/new cars, where production can be justified by launch stocks, press cars, etc, although new Range Rover is probably at the Defender stage already - flippers getting badly burnt.

Should be a big story - the total crashing and burning of the country's largest?, certainly highest profile car maker, if not industrial enterprise, reported marginally, solely, by a nothing rag in mighty Wales.

Castle Bromwich and Halewood factories are dead, and Solihull on death row. Huge story and implications, but buried, conveniently, by the next PM, Ukraine, Putin, etc.

All I see around Solihull/S.Warks. is JLR-registered F-Paces. The story's there, has been for now 6 years or more - JLR's collapse - but of course no reporter will 'go there', as they're all cowards, only caring about themselves and their pay cheque. And that's why JLR and UK are in the situation they are - low quality people, only concerned about themselves, and getting as much before the whole thing collapses

 

[BMW4ever]

Putin's got M(i)cron by the balls:

Gazprom says it will halt gas supplies to France's Engie, cites lack of payment

Russia's Gazprom said on Tuesday it would fully suspend gas deliveries to major European utility Engie from Thursday in a dispute over contracts, a move which will deepen concerns about Europe's winter energy supply.

www.reuters.com

Which will just push the price of LNG higher, and force France to provide more of its energy requirement from electricity, which means less/none available in the winter to provide to the UK.

Meanwhile, Truss has disappeared. Probably having a 'mental issue' - total nervous breakdown, The fool might be beginning to realise she's been set up, to be the fall guy, fall old biddy, to cop for the mob's rage, lynching?, in just a few weeks time. Yes, she has Plod around her, but that doesn't stop someone, lots, who 'have lost it', nothing to lose, their businesses gone, debt to their eyeballs, wife and kids probably gone, etc, looking for revenge, and a figure to pin all the blame on - Loopy Liz.

You'd have to be insane to take that job.

 

[Matski]

You'd have to be insane to take that job.

I take it you applied than?

 

[BMW4ever]

When it's on the idiot-tube Media, you know They want you to know, but for what purpose? - that CAGW, CO2 greenhouse gas, Zero Carbon, Save the Planet, EVs etc etc are, were, all obvious to a small child lies - go to 4:40 for the 'revelation' bit:

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Why are They telling the hoi polloi, pleb morons this now - that what They've said and their Media for the last 35 years - CAGW etc - was all a lie, a con, a scam? Similar to the now beginning limited hangout on the Vax/Lockdown.

Have you worked it out?

They are either cock sure it's too late for us to to anything about these massive crimes against humanity, or again they are panicked, as the War thing in Ukraine is not going to Plan, and the 'Vax' thing has woken up too many people, so they need this third way, by getting the plebs to physically attack their govt, pols, 'Law&Order', quack 'scientists', 'medics', all the CAGW/Green-blathering 'experts', while They make their escape, in the ensuing chaos, societal meltdown, or full civil war, as the ~5/10% that were always kind of awake to all these lies, 'lose it', and take out their anger and revenge on the scummy 'go along to get along' merchants, who filled their pockets during all these times, following orders, respouting all the lies.

If it's on FOX News - Murdoch - 'telling you the truth' - what's the real agenda?

 

[KiwiRob]

'Chip Shortage' = no demand:

'No Land Rover Discovery, Evoque and Velar models will be built through September due to parts shortages but some production continues with the Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Defender.

Jaguar XE, XF and F-Pace models are also on stop but F-Type will still be assembled.'

Jaguar suspends production amid parts shortages

Jaguar Land Rover is facing assembly problems at its plants in September. Ironically, its only full electric model, the I-Pace assembled by Magna International in Graz, Austria, is also on stop at a time when demand for electric cars is surging. No Land Rover Discovery, Evoque and Velar models...

www.wales247.co.uk

- they've just come back from the summer shutdown/holiday, so why 'suspend' production now? If you really had a chronic parts/parts supply shortage, ongoing for around 2 years supposedly, you would know this was coming, from months ago, and just add this 'pause' to the general, annual, summer shutdown.

It's bollox-all to do with it. Those cars are not selling. There's probably fields of them somewhere, or on disused WWII airfields like Fen End, Warks.

As we've seen, Defender has gone off the deep end, the Flipping thing crashed and burned. The other two cars supposedly 'selling', are just newish/new cars, where production can be justified by launch stocks, press cars, etc, although new Range Rover is probably at the Defender stage already - flippers getting badly burnt.

Should be a big story - the total crashing and burning of the country's largest?, certainly highest profile car maker, if not industrial enterprise, reported marginally, solely, by a nothing rag in mighty Wales.

Castle Bromwich and Halewood factories are dead, and Solihull on death row. Huge story and implications, but buried, conveniently, by the next PM, Ukraine, Putin, etc.

All I see around Solihull/S.Warks. is JLR-registered F-Paces. The story's there, has been for now 6 years or more - JLR's collapse - but of course no reporter will 'go there', as they're all cowards, only caring about themselves and their pay cheque. And that's why JLR and UK are in the situation they are - low quality people, only concerned about themselves, and getting as much before the whole thing collapses

You're an utter cock womble if you think there's not chip shortage, the company I work for has lots of issues with chips over the past two years.

VW gave me a delivery time for a ID.3 last week, 9m months to build a car to my specification. The problem is parts shortages.