Comments by "Andy Monaghan" (@229andymon) on "Financial Times" channel.

The UK Govt is facing such "exceptionally challenging" situation in NI that the UKG feels compelled to break international law to fix it. - So why does the majority of NIs elected representatives, far from agreeing with that position, actually support the present arrangements...? Who exactly are the UKG doing this on behalf of?
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It doesn’t make logical sense that a company can convert a diesel vehicle to BE for far less than it costs to buy a new BEV. Otherwise you have the crazy logic that it would be best to make EVs that way….. There has to be other factors at play.
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Disagree. If you look at the predicted developments inc timescales of BEV - sodium, solid state etc, the conclusion you reach is that it’s a matter of time before battery electric will answer almost all trucking requirements. Indeed the Tesla semi-truck already does. Hydrogen will never make sense and never see mass adoption. Fundamentally, why use electricity to make a fuel to achieve motion when you can use the electricity directly?
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@patrickjr11 I’m surprised there aren’t more people telling the Hydrogen Emperor he has no clothes. I see some applications for it, but those don’t include road transport.
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@photoo848 Not according to Tesla, or the specs (or price indications) for their truck. And that’s with today’s battery tech. Which it’s obvious will be improved soon.
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Good question, but why not also feature the Tesla semi-truck, which is now in (very limited) production and already resolves many of the issues raised?
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@NoName-hg6cc Yes, it definitely does. A simple and obvious fact that escaped Brexiteers. What does UK sell to EU that the EU won't be able to (and want to) find new sources of from within it's own membership? Hardly anything, and given the scale of UK exports to EU, this represents a massive risk to the UK economy. If they think they can replace such losses from the new arrangements with other markets, they're dreaming.
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I suppose you could say it could exploited by EU exporters too. If it was as easy as that - why wouldn't the whole world be operating under these wonderful arrangements?
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