Prof David Bailey
@dgbailey.bsky.social
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#industrialstrategy Birmingham Business School, UK in a Changing Europe Senior Fellow, Contemporary Social Science Editor in Chief, Editor Regional Studies, ‘activist academic’ (Gove’s 🪓man Max Caller), media commentator, Likes EVs. Baggies fan.
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Yes a former student told me - she told me how grey I look!
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New blog: why the ‘moral hazard’ argument re the JLR loan guarantee is overblown. blogsfromtheblackstuff.com/bftbautoblog...
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anandmenon.bsky.social
Speaking of which, this, with @jdportes.bsky.social and Gove is still well worth watching ukandeu.ac.uk/video-audio/...
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Comes back to not enough ‘place’ in current UK industrial policy thinking, despite the recent white paper.
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Fair point David. Depends if you want an auto supply chain to survive, ultimately. My view is yes but also to help diversify it over time, as happened with the Regional Development Agency in the MG Rover case: 10-12,000 jobs were saved by diversifying. No RDA today sadly. Scrapped by Eric Pickles.
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hrood.bsky.social
The 'automatic stabilizer' "Arbeidstijdverkorting", shortening the work week also exists in the Netherlands.
It requires government permission to use the unemployment funds, owned and overseen by employers and labor unions per sector, for it. It was used end 2008.
The UK doesn't have such laws?
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JLR’s cyber security was I think contracted out to Tata Consultancy Services so Tata clearly have some big questions to answer - esp JLR’s new CEO P B Balaji who has just arrived from Tata Motors to exert more Tata control over JLR.
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sjsedmonds.bsky.social
It is amazing that these attacks aren't more headline news, they are growing and getting worse.
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Normal in Germany via part-time wage scheme to support business experiencing a shock. We put at risk £2trillion (!) to support the city after global financial crisis. Manufacturing doesn’t seem to matter even though 200000 jobs depend on JLR. I think we need to understand the size of the risk here.
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It isn’t a ‘bail out’.
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The JLR cyberattack has damaged manufacturing plants, putting jobs at risk in the West Midlands & in the supply chain. @zarahsultana.bsky.social (Coventry South MP) might better focus on protecting good jobs in the West Midlands rather than political rows of little interest to constituents.
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usagi3939.bsky.social
Wholly agree - this is an excellent long read from Reuters chronicling the origins of China's domestic EV production, from the mass use of central government subsidies to bolster consumer support for the transition from ICE vehicles, to the frantic manufacturer price wars seen today.
michaelpettis.bsky.social
Good Reuters article on the sheer extent of excess capacity in China's auto industry, and why it is so hard to resolve. Reuters is becoming the go-to source on excess manufacturing capacity.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
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dphinnemore.bsky.social
'A large majority of member states oppose restrictions on UK participation, as they want flexibility over defence procurement. One EU diplomat described the proposed 50% limit as “the classic French obsession”.'
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
France proposes ceiling on value of UK components in €150bn EU defence fund
Negotiations soon to begin on UK’s entry to Safe scheme, which it hopes will secure bigger role for its defence firms
www.theguardian.com
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pickardje.bsky.social
Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away
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JLR cyberattack: some suppliers 'face bankruptcy' due to hack crisis ⁦‪- BBC piece by Theo Leggett‬⁩ + comments by yours truly ⁦‪@UoB_Business‬⁩ ⁦‪@UKandEU‬⁩
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jaguar Land Rover: Some suppliers 'face bankruptcy' due to hack crisis
The government has been urged to
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