The Ukrainians are coming to Ross-on-Wye (From Hereford Times)
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The Ukrainians are coming to Ross-on-Wye
3:31pm Tuesday 22nd January 2013 in News
REPRESENTATIVES from Ukrainian aerospace company Markets-Mat and the Ukrainian government are due in Ross-on-Wye later this month with millions of pounds of investment on their minds.
That money would build an advanced manufacturing plant at Model Farm, Hildersley, meaning hundreds of new jobs.
As previously reported by the Hereford Times, several months of international negotiations involving Herefordshire Council and US based global business go-between the Get It Group have been held to secure that investment for Ross.
Those negotiations have Market-Mats actively considering Ross as a UK base.
On January 30 the president of Market-Mats and the Ukrainian deputy minister for economic development will meet with Communities Secretary Eric Pickles before travelling to Ross to meet with Herefordshire Council leaders the next day.
The Get it Group are also brokering the deal that brings Georgia’s Tbilisi Aerospace Manufacturing to the Rotherwas Enterprise Zone in Hereford.
Comments(21)
silentbull
says...
6:38pm Tue 22 Jan 13
But shouldn't the council be concentrating on getting local kids into work?
The way its reported would just make people resent east Europeans even more.
Just a thought like
megilleland
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10:23pm Tue 22 Jan 13
http://www.city-wind
mills.com/cwnews11b-
7-12.pdf
What is it that these representatives from Ukrainian aerospace company Markets-Mat, the Ukrainian government and Georgia’s Tbilisi Aerospace Manufacturing find so attractive in Herefordshire? Maybe the council are giving away more of the council tax payers money.
Their economies and politics are worse than ours - very unstable. Other than some small aircraft manufacture their main business appears to be domestic weapons, armoured vehicles and artillery systems and are now developing drones for surveillance
http://www.unmanned.
co.uk/unmanned-vehic
les-news/unmanned-ae
rial-vehicles-uav-ne
ws/georgia-reveals-n
ew-home-grown-unmann
ed-vehicle/
More to this than meets the eye.
darren23
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11:57pm Tue 22 Jan 13
William Rudd
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9:08am Wed 23 Jan 13
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Herefordian07
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11:33am Wed 23 Jan 13
bobby47
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11:05pm Wed 23 Jan 13
Aint it going to be interesting now Cameron has committed us to an In/Out Vote on the issue of Europe. Will these people from Ukraine be willing to invest their oil and gas money in a place that may soon leave the EU.
On a lighter note ,I'd bet that this move from Cameron has buggared up our Councils plans to bind us and our fragile economy to this weapons obsessed, uranium rich unstable state that was once behind the Iron Curtain.
Perhaps we have received some divine intervention that will stop this unholy union.
megilleland
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11:22pm Wed 23 Jan 13
That money would build an advanced manufacturing plant at Model Farm, Hildersley, meaning hundreds of new jobs.Here is some reading that our local councillors should undertake to get the background of why Georgia wants to set up in the UK and who is providing the money to do this.
Georgia : Recent Developments and U.S. Interests
http://www.fas.org/s
gp/crs/row/97-727.pd
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After a meeting between U.S.Members of Congress and Georgian legislators on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Bucharest, Romania, in mid-October 2011, the U.S. delegation head, Representative Mike Turner, released a statement of support for Georgia. According to the statement, “the United States recently approved a commercial arms sale to Georgia; all NATO states should look to arms sales with Georgia that can add to the
collective defense…. A stronger Georgia is clearly in the interest of all NATO members.”
A report issued in October 2011 by a team led by Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Lindsey Graham urged that U.S. policy be changed to “normalize ... defense relations with Georgia, including allowing sales of defensive military equipment will encourage other allies to follow suit,
enabling Georgia to resume purchasing armaments from Central European allies.
also
http://www.aljazeera
.com/programmes/sout
h2north/2013/01/2013
118151914861779.html
Is society inherently corrupt?
Feinstein explains why corruption in the global arms trade has interested him specifically:
“It’s estimated that the trade in weapons accounts for around 40 percent of all corruption in all world trade .…The thing that I think is so important about it is it runs to the core of the way we’re governed, because the trade in weapons is extremely closely tied into the mechanics of government. The defence manufacturers, those who make the weapons, are closely tied in to governments, to militaries, to intelligence agencies and crucially to political parties. So they have enormous influence.”
While Feinstein acknowledges that there is a security need for countries to have arms, he points out that the nature of the trade calls for greater transparency and regulation.
“The global trade in weapons is regulated less than the global trade in bananas. We’re producing something that kills people. Surely it should be amongst the most highly regulated products that are produced on this planet.”
silentbull
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6:35pm Thu 24 Jan 13
You will find that our prime minister didn't say its going to be a straight 'yes' or 'no' or 'in or 'out' question sadly, Im guessing there's going to be a lot of game playing from our leaders.
Im hoping i don't come across racist but you will prob find that their will be a lot more 'Europeans' living in this country when\if the vote happens if you understand where Im getting at .
bobby47
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7:06pm Thu 24 Jan 13
We've all been socially engineered into apologising for a simple questioning notion, thought or idea.
Its madness and we've all been infected by this strange social illness.
We need this vote to lance this festering boil that is being a part of the European Union.
megilleland
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7:30pm Thu 24 Jan 13
bobby47
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7:37pm Thu 24 Jan 13
fordshire77
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9:22am Fri 25 Jan 13
Herefordian07 wrote:Im with Herefordian07 on this one.....90% of the council are clueless so I for one think it will lead all to disaster :(
If our beloved council has been involved with the negotiations we are well stuffed !
bobby47
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1:14pm Fri 25 Jan 13
We have gotta get ourselves organised and do something.
M M
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3:18pm Fri 25 Jan 13
People voted for the man, not understanding the politics unfortunately.
With Jessie Norman MP and the very popular Andrew Atkinson a Conservative Councillor canvassing for him it was a forgone conclusion
bobby47
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4:18pm Fri 25 Jan 13
M M
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5:09pm Fri 25 Jan 13
I really enjoy your posts, please keep them coming.
bobby47
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5:40pm Fri 25 Jan 13
mr.dig
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5:42pm Fri 25 Jan 13
never mind ,lots of local jobs up for grabs.
i speak russian,any chance or am i too old being 66!!!
wyesider
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11:43am Sun 27 Jan 13
It was further suggested that this firm wanted to employ local people and not bring in hundreds of outsiders.
Does anyone know if this firm has made any progress with this idea, please?
littlewhitebull
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3:30pm Sun 27 Jan 13
wyesider wrote:The Ross project and the Rotherwas project you refer to are linked.
Way back in the summer of 2012, I can recall that a report on local radio stated that a Georgian aerospace company were thinking of moving to Rotherwas. It was suggested at the time that about 10% of the jobs would be for ‘local’ youngsters in the form of apprenticeships.
It was further suggested that this firm wanted to employ local people and not bring in hundreds of outsiders.
Does anyone know if this firm has made any progress with this idea, please?
The UK government's Trade and Investment department issued the following statement back in August 2012:
"Deputy Prime Minister Announces New Jobs and Investment for UK Advanced Engineering Excellence
Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing and MARKET-MATS, with the support of The Get It Group LLC, have signed an agreement to locate their advanced manufacturing campuses in the Hereford Enterprise Zone and Model Farm Ross-on-Wye, creating over 1,000 new jobs, over 10 per cent of whom will be apprentices, and increasing local spending power by £20 million per annum."
Presumably, we shall hear more when the details are finalised?
bobby47 says...
4:30pm Tue 22 Jan 13
I just hope that these new Companies, who will understandably employ their own countrymen from within Hereford, they give some opportunities to our local kids who deserve a shot at the chance of a job with a future.