After the entire manufacturing and JIT delivery system

Halted to prepare for a brexit that never happened

Car plants moved their month long yearly maintenance up to april

For example

It fucked with everything

And then parl said "LOL no we delay"

So yes

We receded in Q2

I'm not surprised

^

I work in the automation sector, I can personally speak to what bullshit that caused for our customers

They were ready as they could be to get in with it

Our suppliers were, they had shit in place to get us our stuff when we needed it

But no

And no

Prices didn't increase

Delivery terms stayed the same

And alot of them are German suppliers

The only thing they couldn't guarantee was customs tarrifs

Because that depends on what the UK levvies

And finally, we are still fucking swamped in orders, if anything that increased over the past year.

The UK will tit-for-tat in tariffs

I'm personally working on 6-7 projects

More if you count what I'm supporting

And about half are Japanese companies moving production to the UK out of China

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1181585075282087936

Not sure why they're not moving it to Vietnam

IE, the *new* China.

So yeah, the financial sector might be having a heart attack at the slightly lower than 10 year average growth and dip into negatives.

But the engineering sector is doing absolutely fine

Hence why I don't fear brexit at all

Nathan

Automation is cheaper than people

Doesn't matter where you go

Really? Even for cheap tat?

Yes

I can understand mass-production

You can buy for example

A CNC machine (a good one) and a robot cell

That will act as the CNC machinist

For £2 per hour