It's an anecdotal benefit....
But since starting this thread I have personally provided electricity supplies to another 20+ factory and industrial sites just in the small city of Stoke on trent, as have my colleagues.
I can't go finding web pages and articles to link to, but do I really need to, not at all..... its happening here, people are getting employed and the city is growing.
I don't believe you can blame the failing NHS on brexit..... when I first started as an electrician I was almost exclusively based at the hospital installing and refurbishing wiring on wards... things such as PFI schemes and using contractors to replace what should be in house roles (porters, catering, cleaning) is wasting far more money than anything else, and that's been going on under every government for decades.
The energy crisis is a good chunk traceable back to thatchers closing of industry and joining the common market to seal the fate of our core northern employers, as soon as they could "demonstrate" it was more cost effective to import all our fuel, we became so dependent on other countries there was never a real way back.
We still rely on coal and gas power stations to pick up demand, we can build as many windmills and solar farms as we want, but the harsh truth is that when the demand isn't there most of the energy is dissipated to earth and wasted...... but the private companies that own them still gat paid the full whack of export rates before its wasted.
There is/was enough coal and gas to keep the country going as it was for 100s of years, Chatterley Whitfield, my local mine was the first to extract a million tons a year, they did this for over 20yrs and according to thier historian in the museum the seam could have sustained that for another 60+yrs.
If we had not become so reliant on everywhere else we wouldn't have had anywhere near the negative impact the ukraine war has bought.
So far as I can see with the "worker shortage" its just that the wealthy companies and land owners will not take a hit to thier profits to pay people an actual living wage, they just want cheap euro labour who are happy to live in squalllar and work for a pittance.
Tesco are making record amounts of money, yet holding farmers to ransom for goods and having the government top up the difference.
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