we have 6 years and parliament is 4

Or you could have elections where only lorts could stand

*d

Or just leave it how it is

Isn't there too many of them on hol anyway? You could reduce it to like 1/4th or something

*in

https://mtdmfg.com/news/british-steel-70m-rescue-deal-with-jingye-group-completed/

its interesting that the chinese firm would put money in the failing business... they now have a vested interest in the UK doing well

I guess that's better than it just getting randomly bought out

Btw I've answered my own question from earlier

"“the Parties [i.e. the UK and the EU] agree to consider” a number of defence policies, including UK “collaboration in relevant existing and future projects of the European Defence Agency” and “collaborative defence projects.”

The language in the latest iteration of the Political Declaration is actually weaker than the version Theresa May struck: the former PM committed the UK to “enable” the policies, while the new version only promises to “consider.”"

Doesn't sound as bad as I thought

Chinese taking over British business @wacka

Not a good thing.

Nah it pisses me off

I guess it's better than it going under though

That keeps us tied to the EU, which is a good thing. @Hopix

It says we'll "consider" to cooperate in military schemes

Not a very strong tie

The intelligence services are desperate to keep access to European collective intelligence networks

We'll strike a deal, keeping us close

Yeah that's fine as long as it can be unilaterally undone

why wouldnt it be good for china to be buying a failing company?

they now have money on the line...

More Chinese control in the economy and government.

if UK goes down... china lose money

We should nationalise that company

no.. the opposite

I'm probably with Nathan on this one tbh

more control in Chinas government

We don't have more control in China? What?

their money is tied in our companies

China has more control over our economy and our policies

if the UK fails, china lose out

Through those investments and that money

Sure, but they can take measures to ensure the UK doesn't fail.

if china wanted more control they could just let our failing businesses die

Which is where their influence in the govnerment comes in

As we know, businesses have influence in the government

Now, if those businesses are owned by the Chinese. Boom, China has influence in the government.

Which means we'll get more pro-China legislation

i don't think we want china embedded in our infrastructure as much as we can help it

The more they control, the more influence, the more they fuck us