Prof David Bailey
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#IndStrategy @UoB_Business @UKandEU Snr Fellow; Editor-in-Chief @cssjournal1 , editor @regionalstudies , Birmingham Post Columnist. Likes EVs. Baggies fan.
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New
@UKandEU
report on ‘Manufacturing after Brexit’ just out co-authored by
@UoB_Business
@dgbailey
& Ivan Rajic
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Why can’t these be rented out as social housing rather than being sold off by
@BhamCityCouncil
at a loss of over £300m?
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Hello from Singapore. I wish those banging on about ‘Singapore on Thames’ actually came here & saw it. Public housing. Public investment fund. Public transport. Tripartite govt-business-tradeunion coordination over future skills backed up big investment… not quite small state.
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@nigel_driffield
@drcroft85
I’ve had several referees telling me over the last year to read my
@UKandEU
report on ‘Manufacturing after Brexit’. Which of course I did.
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@johnredwood
@MHartleyJones
The US, EU & China all have industrial strategies to boost EV production & supply chains, including battery making (e.g. huge support under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act). The UK does not. Industrial strategy was scrapped under Johnson. We are standing on the sidelines watching
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What happened to speaking truth to power? BBC chairman looks pretty weak in criticising Emily Maitlis’ Newsnight comments on Dominic Cummings
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UK risks losing offer of 400,000 Covid-19 testing kits a week
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“Never has a government expended so much time, energy and money on making its people poorer”
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Nissan picks Japan, not Britain, to make Ariya electric car for EU. Another blow for Sunderland.
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Hard Brexit could kill off entire industries, says Jaguar Land Rover chief. He’s quite right and I’ve been saying this for 2 years.
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There are many third countries participating in the EU Horizon scheme for good reasons. Staying out will leave UK science weaker.
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Literally no ministers in DCLG/Levelling Up??
I’m assuming no one will notice?
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@Hasanpatel
@nadhimzahawi
Or that he threatened The Independent newspaper three times with legal action when asked for his response to inquiries by the National Crime Agency and HMRC.
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Many congrats to
@premnsikka
on being appointed to the Lords. An outstanding scholar who challenges corporate power.
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"The Brexit deal with signed at a time when government was weak and gripped by a constitutional crisis." Er really? # via
@HuffPostUKPol
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Utterly bizarre interview by Stoke-on-Trent North MP Jonathan Gullis on
@Channel4News
- so people are not allowed to talk about poverty in Stoke now? Only boosterism is allowed? This isn’t representing Stoke but rather pretending levelling up is in action. Poor.
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@EdConwaySky
@pmdfoster
Pretty poor response.
@ft
piece spot on. All the response actually says is that one of the govt’s pillars was basically flawed, effectively confirming the
@ft
piece.
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@johnredwood
Nonsense. Chip shortage plus effects of the Honda plant closure (latter was in turn linked to Brexit uncertainty).
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@johnredwood
Nonsense. It reflects the failure of a start up and the lack of an industrial strategy on the part of UK government.
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Allegra Stratton’s ignorance of
#EVs
doesn’t bode at all well for govt policy in this area: Diesel car suits me better than electric, says PM’s climate spokesperson
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@johnredwood
Yes I blame the cycle lane on the A38 in Birmingham for all the queuing at Dover. Top Redwoodchatbot nonsense.
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@johnredwood
On a GNI* measure Ireland’s underlying economic activity is c40% lower than headline GDP figures & Ireland is not even in the top quarter of EU countries. Traditional GDP measure also fails to account for Ireland’s high cost of living, which is 25% higher than EU average.
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Has the gentleman speaking on
@BBCr4today
on the frequency of Birmingham to London trains actually tried
@AvantiWestCoast
recently? Terrrible service.
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Huge. Great news. Jaguar Land Rover-owner to pick UK over Spain for giant car battery plant - BBC News
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Chixit. Chicken producers blame Brexit for staff and supply shortages
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My final editorial board meeting today as Editor-in-Chief of the wonderful
@RegionalStudies
. The journal will go from strength to strength under the dream team of
@jclark_crp
@DrJWHarrison
& Ben Derudder…
@regstud
#RSA23
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Dominic Cummings took the public for fools. Now they want his head
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@johnredwood
Nonsense. UK Science wants to be part of the networks that Horizon supports. Being out of was really damaging.
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Humbled & delighted to be given the Regional Studies Association’s Sir Peter Hall award last night at the RSA Florence Conference. What a lovely evening, & conference!
@SallyJHardy
- we missed you.
@regstud
@RegionalStudies
@RSAEurope
@UoB_Business
@UKandEU
@AcadSocSciences
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@POferries
is owned by DP World. The latter paid shareholders £270m in dividends in 2020. DP World is owned by the govt of Dubai in the UAE via a holding company.
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The UK car industry's prospects go from bad to worse | Automotive News Europe with that
@Bloomberg
story by
@nicola_uring
@UoB_Business
@UKandEU
@dgbailey
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@anandMenon1
@Peston
has just taken the PM to task on it. The latter’s response offered little in the way of clarification and had a very narrow and incomplete definition of bon-tariff barriers to trade. Yes I ‘zoned out’ as the PM out it.
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Hunt redefines ‘levelling up’ with focus on Cambridge, Canary Wharf and Surrey
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So Barnier just said in French that there are many benefits of the Single Market which the UK has rejected. There will be many changes for the UK. That is a consequence of Brexit.
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Did Boris Johnson just said there would be no ‘non tariff barriers’? If so that is simply incorrect. Think customs, rules of origin, regulatory divergence etc. Or did I mishear?
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@johnredwood
Fact check: UK new car registrations in March bounced back by 18.2% to deliver the best ‘new plate month’ performance since before the pandemic, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
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Published 2day! ‘Carmageddon? Brexit & Beyond for UK Auto’ - v topical given Sajid Javid’s comments today on ‘no alignment’ with EU post Brexit. Launch event 29th Jan.
@UoB_Business
@UKandEU
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You can tell my wife is away… Christmas decorations not quite as ornate this year.
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I’ve been exercising my new found sovereignty by lying in bed for a bit.
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@chrisgreybrexit
Smaller manufacturing firms esp affected by this. Our latest
@UKandEU
work published in
@cssjournal1
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Utter hypocrisy from govt a few months after COP26 Plans in England for car chargers in all commercial car parks quietly rolled back (after EV subsidies cut too)
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A haircut, a drink at the pub, first barbecue of the year and a visit to see my mum. What a week! 😎
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Great talking to
@bbcnickrobinson
just now on
@bbcr4today
on this
@faisalislam
piece and its wider context: Stellantis says UK needs to change its Brexit deal.
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@theAliceRoberts
Many economists did say there would an economic hit in the long run. We didn’t get our message over very well.
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Another bridge Boris hasn’t delivered: UK travellers unable to fly to Greece as country reopens
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Place-based industrial and regional strategy – levelling the playing field. New
@regionalstudies
editorial introducing a cracking special issue, with
@PRT1969
& Christos Pitelis.
@regstud
@RSAEurope
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“Things Johnson hasn’t built include an airport on an island in the Thames, a garden bridge, another bridge across the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and the UK mainland, and a functional relationship with the truth”... Marina Hyde
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“trade agreements usually require about 55% of a good to be produced locally in order to qualify for zero-tariff treatment. Yet only about 20-25% of overall value of cars produced in the U.K. originates domestically, according to.. UK in a Changing Europe”
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“failures of privatisation are coming home to roost financially and in terms of the dysfunctionality of the system” - UK rail system described as ‘broken’ as 2022 data reveals extent of disruption.
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@johnharris1969
@carolecadwalla
Another case of an outsourcing firm running rings round the public sector in contract design and specification. How many times have we been here?
@JohnTizard
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Out today! Our new open access
@regstuds
book ‘Industry 4.0 and Regional Transformations’ edited by
@UoB_Business
@UKandEU
@ldepropris
&
@dgbailey
read it here for free.
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A parcel arrived today from China, sent by a
@UoB_Business
MSc IB graduate, containing masks. It was a v kind gesture by someone thinking of her old teacher. It also made me reflect on shifts in the global balance of power & which countries have come out of this well. We haven’t.
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I’m so pleased the yacht owners will be looked after. I’ve had sleepless night worrying over this.... British boats thrown lifeline over double VAT after Brexit via
@FT
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@colinrtalbot
I wish she’d sod off to GB News. Other BBC political journalists are great. She’s become an embarrassment.
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Why doesn’t Britain have a Huawei of its own? The answer speaks volumes: great piece by
@chakrabortty
(a sorry story of short-termism & takeovers wrecking an industrial giant)
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It was our last
@RSAEurope
board meeting yday with
@SallyJHardy
as General Manager before she rides off into retirement with a cheery wave. We gave her an Oscar (to go with her other Oscar - her son) to celebrate her many achievements. It’s been a blast Sally - thank you!
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@DanNeidle
@rbeccabeneworth
@nimshah14
@Ray_McCann55
He was very careful to claim heating on his stables.
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Our Henry vacuum (British made by Numatic International Limited) just had a new wheel. First new part in >15 years of use! Virtually indestructible surviving several stair falls. (Previously we had an expensive high tech colourful bagless vacuum that fell apart after 18 months).
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Henry Yeung collects
@regstud
Sir Peter Hall Award for achievement. Well done Henry!
@RegionalStudies
@RSAEurope
@RSRS_OA
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Latest analysis by Ian Henry; “According to the govt’s US FTA plans, total consumer savings from ambitious trade deal amount to £168m-£271m a year; with UK pop at c67m, this is worth £2.50-£4.05 each. I’ll remember this when I have my triple espresso (£2.90) in Caffe Nero on Sat”
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@BBCNews
channel just now in Centenary Square Birmingham talking about Brexit and UK automotive
@UoB_Business
@UKandEU
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Still stuck on a
@CrossCountryUK
train at Wolverhampton en route to Manchester behind a stranded train. This sort of delay and congestion will get worse: HS2 trains north of Birmingham will also need to use this track rather than new HS2 track owing to Sunak scrapping the latter.
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Scrapping UK grants for hybrid cars 'astounding', says industry. Utterly idiotic I’d say. Govt policy on auto is now a complete shambles, just as we’re meant to be making massive carbon reductions to keep global temp rise below 1.5C. D’oh!
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Recently released Google Scholar metrics (2nd Aug 2018):
@RegionalStudies
in Top 20 of all social science journals. Big thanks & well done to all involved in the journal - editors, reviewers, authors and readers - and to
@regstud
@tandfnewsroom
for support.
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Our new book on Brexit and UK Auto out now... a bite-sized book you can read in an hour with a great mix of short chapters by industry analysts, politicians, academics, unions and journalists. And a free kindle version on Amazon. Give it a go.
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Great to see
@RegionalStudies
CiteScore 2022 rose from 7.6 to 9, putting the journal 8th out of 262 social science journals. Congrats to editors, reviewers, authors and readers. And thank you to
@regstud
@tandfhss
@tandfonline
- publishing a journal is a major collective effort.
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@Carpervert
I’m surprised that you have met that many people with this attitude. I haven’t - maybe we move in different circles?
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Er... those hair clippers finally arrived so I can have a trim. However I’m a bit worried by the user manual: “Determine the hair length of your pet that needs to be shaved”...
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“the United Kingdom has just completed the first set of trade negotiations in the history of mankind in which a country has made its free trade zone smaller than the area enclosed by its own borders” via
@zeitonline
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@DavidHenigUK
Similar sad story with GKN Driveline in Birmingham which shut and production went to Poland and italy.
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@johnredwood
For once you’ve actually said something sensible. Although do remember it is your own party in government.
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