Bradwell B Nuclear Power Station

[Kukri]

Only people surnamed Wyatt, Clarke, and Mussett need apply!

 

[Capt Popeye]

If you idealistically ignore profit, you will go out of business

Yea like all them Airlines that ignored actual profit for the activity and numbers, that has done them so so well, has not it ?

Unfortunately so so many Business have not paid attention to the the real activity of Business in that of attracting a ready supply of trained labour, lack of apprenticeships etc, so that they have relied upon importing Labour as well as basic materials from abroad, then, like the present PPE shortages have shown, they, the Management and Government have been caught with their 'pants down' , and run arround in circles, looking for a solution, a solution that they have ignored for many years, all because they followed the Just in Time and Buy from the Worlds Stage as its cheaper mantra, that silly silly bugrs they have proved out to be

 

[DavidofMersea]

Well might be an idea if the sort of No Mans Land area that surrounds the new build could be designated as the local Traveller Site fo the whole of the county Of Essex plus the East London overspill, that would (will) settle them Essex Mens appitite for Foreigners in their midst , eh ?

What a stupid childish post

 

[Cavalierbond]

So let the Chinese / French profit by using foreign labour ... ok .. make sure British are undercut and haven’t got jobs ..

 

[Cavalierbond]

I’m English but believe in Great Britain .. that’s what made this country so attractive for all these “ foreigners “ to flock to our country and prosper ...

 

[Biggles Wader]

Maybe time this thread migrated to the lounge?

 

[DavidofMersea]

So let the Chinese / French profit by using foreign labour ... ok .. make sure British are undercut and haven’t got jobs ..

Of course this is all speculation, there is no evidence that the power station builders will use significant numbers of foreign labours

 

[Capt Popeye]

And there are even people living in Mersea who come from the other side of Colchester!

Well not realy sure that those whom might live in Essex but live on the West side of Colchester actually think of themseles as Essex more sort of South Midlanders {#

 

[Capt Popeye]

What a stupid childish post

Might be that Strong Sunshine in your eyes at the mo; but guess that you got the point ?

 

[Tomahawk]

Large constructions projects usually import labour for the temporary job and set up a construction village.. the people with teh skills for construction won't be found in the Dengie or indeed in most of Essex.

 

[Tomahawk]

Maybe time this thread migrated to the lounge?

This project affect the East Coast..
Moving it to the Lounge will simply get caught up by the usual anti Johnson/Brexit/ global warmingistas

 

[Kukri]

Besides, I can agree with Tomahawk, here, and I cannot, there.

 

[Tomahawk]

Besides, I can agree with Tomahawk, here, and I cannot, there.

 

[DavidofMersea]

Large constructions projects usually import labour for the temporary job and set up a construction village.. the people with teh skills for construction won't be found in the Dengie or indeed in most of Essex.

Why won't people with construction skills be found in Essex? I expect there will be some ex-Cross rail workers

 

[Kukri]

Why won't people with construction skills be found in Essex? I expect there will be some ex-Cross rail workers

They will still be working on it!?

 

[DavidofMersea]

They will still be working on it!?

I don't think so. When do you think construction on the power station will start? Also you must remember that different trades work at different parts/times of the job

 

[Kukri]

I don't think so. When do you think construction on the power station will start? Also you must remember that different trades work at different parts/times of the job

I was joking! But, seriously, I am not sure that power station will start at all. I’m not sure we will have the money.

 

[Hydrozoan]

By chance, I am reading George Ewart Evans’ Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay which - though dealing with a village in Suffolk, not Essex - provides an interesting backdrop to reading this thread. (I had forgotten that Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk had provided a 'pilot' for the Domesday Book - and never knew that their inhabitants viewed themselves as so distinct from the rest of England, which they called the ‘Sheres’.)

 

[DavidofMersea]

I was joking! But, seriously, I am not sure that power station will start at all. I’m not sure we will have the money.

But it seems the French and Chinese have, and are prepared to risk it.

I have friend that is chairman of BANNG ( I don't share his views) the local protest group, and he accepts that the power station will be built, and BANNG are now trying to get the size of the power station reduced

 

[PeterWright]

All the container cranes at the Port of Felixstowe have been supplied by Zhenhua Port Machinery Company of Shanghai and assembled and commissioned on site by Chinese workers, as was the gantry crane used in the building of the aircraft carriers Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales.

I suggest you don’t worry about it.

Fairly unsurprising as the Port of Felixstowe is part of the Hong Kong based C K Hutchison Holdings, formerly known as Cheung Kong Holdings. They have yet to update the name of their head office building - Cheung Kong House. Wouldn't surprise me to hear that Zhenua Port Machinery Company is owned by Hutchison. It's also likely that China has installed as many container cranes as the rest of the world put together in the past 20 years, so that is where you would go for up to date experience of building these cranes.

Peter.