Thanks to VW cars for exposing the utter uselessness of our rulers

Tuesday-Wednesday blog

You’ve probably heard the news. German car manufacturing giant – VW – are planning to reduce their workforce by around 100,000 from just over 600,000 to just over 500,000. One in six VW workers will lose their jobs. That is not a minor economic problem. That is not even an economic disaster. That is an economic catastrophe.

Let’s look at a few simple charts even someone as stupid as Mad Ed Miliband might be able to understand.

Here’s Germany’s car production from 2002 to 2022:

And here’s France’s car production from 2013 to 2024:

And here’s the UK’s car production from 1949 to 2025:

(The charts all have different dates as I used what was available on Google Images rather than trying to construct my own charts from the base data)

Am I the only person who can see a pattern here?

There seem to be three main reasons for the shocking collapse in Europe’s car manufacturing:

• The idiotic Net Zero climate catastrophist policies of our rulers who are obsessed with ridding the world of fossil-fuel cars in order to supposedly ‘save the planet’ from supposed ‘Global Boiling’
• The fact that China accounts for roughly 70% of global rare earth mining and an estimated 90% of global processing and refining capacity. China also holds about 49% of the world’s known rare earth reserves. So the Chinese can price the key and most expensive part of electric vehicles – the battery which needs rare earth metals – at such high prices that Western countries will never be able to compete with Chinese electric vehicles. This puts Western carmakers in an impossible situation. On the one hand our economically-illiterate rulers are demanding they sell ever more electric cars and on the other hand the Chinese Communist Party ensures that rare earths and batteries are priced so high that Chinese electric vehicles will always be able to undercut Western ones on price
• China’s clear policy of wiping out most of Western car manufacturing by flooding the market with cheaper Chinese products

Given this economic catastrophe facing hundreds of thousands of workers in car manufacturing and the car manufacturing supply chain, what are our ‘brilliant’ rulers doing to protect well-paid, skilled jobs in the West?

Nothing, niente, nada, zilch, zero, diddly-squat, bupkus!

After all, our rulers have overpaid jobs for life, almost unlimited expense accounts and massive guaranteed pensions. So why should they give a flying f**k over the fact that hundreds of thousands of Western car industry workers are having their lives ruined by our rulers’ policies?