As Chinese electric cars gear up for an invasion of the U.K. market, the head of the Institute of the Motor Industry is warning that Beijing could remotely bring the nation to a standstill. Or it could be that the U.K. car industry is afraid of Chinese competition and is using security concerns to advocate for a ban… The Telegraphhas the story.
A coming influx of Chinese electric cars represents a security risk as they could be remotely controlled to “paralyse” Britain, according to the head of the industry’s professional body.
Britons face “major security issues” from Chinese cars, warned Professor Jim Saker, President of the Institute of the Motor Industry.
In a report due to be shared with car makers and regulators, Prof Saker said there was “no way” of stopping Chinese cars coming under remote control.
He said: “The car manufacturer may be in Shanghai and could stop 100,000 to 300,000 cars across Europe thus paralysing a country.”
While regulators can test samples of cars for spyware or other security vulnerabilities, testing thousands of vehicles is not feasible, he said.
A similar frailty of testing samples allowed Volkswagen to cheat emissions tests ahead of the Dieselgate scandal.
Up to 30 new electric vehicle brands are eyeing up the U.K. car market, most of them Chinese.
Companies like BYD and Ora, which already have agreements in place with U.K. dealers, will be joined by a raft of other car makers including Chery, Dongfeng and Haval.
The Chinese Communist Party aims to create a significant export industry. The boss of Vauxhall-owner Stellantis last week warned of an “invasion” of Chinese electric cars.
Carlos Tavares said Stellantis faces a “brutal scenario” where it must compete with Chinese-made cars which are a quarter less expensive while having to invest billions into electrification.
The Government has been slow to wake up to the threat posed, the MPs said.
Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee said in a report that the communist country’s ambition to become an economic superpower presented the “greatest risk” to the U.K.
It said China’s state intelligence apparatus was “targeting” Britain and its interests “prolifically and aggressively” and was seeking to control key industrial and civil nuclear energy assets.
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Article content aside, how I long for a world where the name ‘Trudeau’ is a just a footnote referring to Canada’s darkest hour and relating to a man who languishes in prison for crimes against humanity…
Agree 100%, but we all know that’s just a fantasy. I mean, a good old assassination or ‘very rare adverse event’ from a certain bioweapon that he pushed on Canadian citizens would do me, I’m not fussy. He, and his ilk, are the carbon I want to reduce. Speaking of which, if anybody here lives in these areas please do your best to stay out of hospital. They are evidently run and staffed by soul-sucking, reality-denying dementors pretending to be actual medical/healthcare professionals who care about patients;
”From today, patients and visitors at the Alexandra, Kidderminster, and Worcestershire Royal Hospitals are being asked to wear facemasks in all clinical areas to protect themselves, their loved ones, and hospital staff against the risk of Covid infection.
With the number of Covid-positive patients in our hospitals increasing and with Covid-related staff sickness also on the rise, we want to do everything we can to protect the people we care for from the risk of infection, and we are grateful for the support and understanding of our patients and visitors.
Masks are required in all inpatient and outpatient areas and will be made available to all patients and visitors on arrival.”
I have never worn a mask and never will and that is across more hospital visits than I would have wished these last three years. I’ve had some good ding dongs with the staff though over refusal and including the desire to push a twizzle stick in to my brain.
But you know what this signifies don’t you? Now those dratted fraudulent Covid tests are in existence both them and Covid will never become a thing of the past. They get to recycle this garbage scaremongering hoax indefinitely. The only way hospitals would be able to put out the above crapola ( ”With the number of Covid-positive patients in our hospitals increasing..” ) is by performing the tests, therefore lo and behold, we end up going full circle back to 2020 again, and the Covid theatre never ends.
Gone are the days when we used to just go by the symptoms a patient presented with and say they had flu, an umbrella term for many ‘Influenza-like Illnesses’ caused by different viruses, and we certainly didn’t perform a test to establish that. So now I’m wondering if hospitals are going to have testing of in-patients as protocol if we aren’t going to once again see the coincidental disappearance of flu and the faux dominance of whatever Covid scariant is on trend this winter. Because as the recent past has shown us, you can’t find what you’re not looking for, and with the myopic focus on Covid, and testing only for that specific pathogen, are we going to experience a repeat performance?
To state the obvious, if hospitals stopped testing, which they declared a while ago that they were, then this would automatically be a non-issue. As we know, this ‘issue’ is entirely manufactured and I’ll bet money that anyone testing positive is ‘incidental’ and has gone into hospital for something completely unrelated. And as for the ”Covid-related staff sickness on the rise..”, well I think we can all hazard a guess as to what might be going on there.
Mogs, your analysis is spot on as usual. Obviously keeping the fear going with the hooky tests will help enormously when the time comes for the annual ….’the NHS is on the point of collapse’ headlines.
Personally I have no interest in the fear porn because I know each little strand is only intended to facilitate their depopulation goal. For me, you and many on DS their propaganda is far too crude and lazy to have any effect.
This is funny because he’s dead right. A clip of Prof Fenton talking about the ever-present 77th Hamster Penis Brigade. They’re watching us now, sat in their bedrooms wearing their grubby Y-fronts, because having an objective which involves being a voyeur of what people post online makes them feel like actual soldiers! FFS..LOL
So, let me get this straight: Should an Indian prime minister chose to have Sikhs living abroad murdered, this would boost his standing with the electorate in India? No wonder that 95% of the Sikhs in India pay emphatic lip services to their Hindu overlords. From a more European angle, murderous barbarians with assault rifles would come to mind as a phrase here.
I think it would be fair to say that India has been seen as a less ‘committed partner’ to the USA than Washington would like..and it’s recent improvement in it’s ties with China will no doubt have rankled a few people.
India has adopted neutrality toward Russia and has abstained from successive votes in the UN Security Council, General Assembly, and the Human Rights Council that condemned Russian aggression in Ukraine and thus far has refused to openly call out Russia as the instigator of the crisis.
It is considered by the US as a major democratic strategic partner ….and they are not unaware that India is a strong ally in the Indo-Pacific…..but it has not really given the ‘fealty’ that the US demands of its ‘partners’…nor the out right condemnation of Russia that the US insists on….
The G20 was held in New Delhi in September….and unlike Bali, the year before, Elenskyy was not extended an invitation ….. and critics felt that the strong condemnation of Russia in the Ukraine was ‘considerably watered down’ in New Delhi…
I suppose I could ignore all of this, and call me a sceptic but I can’t help thinking that maybe India is being given a ‘warning’ for not know-towing to the ‘rules based order’…just a gentle reminder of who is in charge?
After all several reports have said that the information given to Turdeau about the assassination came from “Intelligence gained by the “Five Eyes” network …of the US, UK, Canada Australia and New Zealand..and according to the New York Times it came directly via the USA…..which is indeed very fortuitous….
Wow when you throw accusations at people, they stick, sort of like Russell Brand recently. Looks like it is Justin’s turn. So many accusations….many of them disturbing. Just wondering if his masters have decided that he is no longer useful? Starting to look that way.
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Article content aside, how I long for a world where the name ‘Trudeau’ is a just a footnote referring to Canada’s darkest hour and relating to a man who languishes in prison for crimes against humanity…
Hear, hear.
Agree 100%, but we all know that’s just a fantasy. I mean, a good old assassination or ‘very rare adverse event’ from a certain bioweapon that he pushed on Canadian citizens would do me, I’m not fussy. He, and his ilk, are the carbon I want to reduce. Speaking of which, if anybody here lives in these areas please do your best to stay out of hospital. They are evidently run and staffed by soul-sucking, reality-denying dementors pretending to be actual medical/healthcare professionals who care about patients;
”From today, patients and visitors at the Alexandra, Kidderminster, and Worcestershire Royal Hospitals are being asked to wear facemasks in all clinical areas to protect themselves, their loved ones, and hospital staff against the risk of Covid infection.
With the number of Covid-positive patients in our hospitals increasing and with Covid-related staff sickness also on the rise, we want to do everything we can to protect the people we care for from the risk of infection, and we are grateful for the support and understanding of our patients and visitors.
Masks are required in all inpatient and outpatient areas and will be made available to all patients and visitors on arrival.”
https://twitter.com/WorcsAcuteNHS/status/1707017845190586794
I have never worn a mask and never will and that is across more hospital visits than I would have wished these last three years. I’ve had some good ding dongs with the staff though over refusal and including the desire to push a twizzle stick in to my brain.
But you know what this signifies don’t you? Now those dratted fraudulent Covid tests are in existence both them and Covid will never become a thing of the past. They get to recycle this garbage scaremongering hoax indefinitely. The only way hospitals would be able to put out the above crapola ( ”With the number of Covid-positive patients in our hospitals increasing..” ) is by performing the tests, therefore lo and behold, we end up going full circle back to 2020 again, and the Covid theatre never ends.
Gone are the days when we used to just go by the symptoms a patient presented with and say they had flu, an umbrella term for many ‘Influenza-like Illnesses’ caused by different viruses, and we certainly didn’t perform a test to establish that. So now I’m wondering if hospitals are going to have testing of in-patients as protocol if we aren’t going to once again see the coincidental disappearance of flu and the faux dominance of whatever Covid scariant is on trend this winter. Because as the recent past has shown us, you can’t find what you’re not looking for, and with the myopic focus on Covid, and testing only for that specific pathogen, are we going to experience a repeat performance?
To state the obvious, if hospitals stopped testing, which they declared a while ago that they were, then this would automatically be a non-issue. As we know, this ‘issue’ is entirely manufactured and I’ll bet money that anyone testing positive is ‘incidental’ and has gone into hospital for something completely unrelated. And as for the ”Covid-related staff sickness on the rise..”, well I think we can all hazard a guess as to what might be going on there.
Mogs, your analysis is spot on as usual. Obviously keeping the fear going with the hooky tests will help enormously when the time comes for the annual ….’the NHS is on the point of collapse’ headlines.
Personally I have no interest in the fear porn because I know each little strand is only intended to facilitate their depopulation goal. For me, you and many on DS their propaganda is far too crude and lazy to have any effect.
With all that is happening in the world today I might as well be honest about ‘strained diplomatic relations’ between India and Canada – I CGAF.
Let’s run this story again when the headline reads:
“Sikh Nationalist assassinates Turdeau in black face revenge attack.”
This is funny because he’s dead right. A clip of Prof Fenton talking about the ever-present 77th Hamster Penis Brigade. They’re watching us now, sat in their bedrooms wearing their grubby Y-fronts, because having an objective which involves being a voyeur of what people post online makes them feel like actual soldiers! FFS..LOL
Cue the pilot fish chowfest!
https://twitter.com/profnfenton/status/1707372905409958174
A bit off topic but well worth a watch, if the sight of brainwashed schoolchildren chanting a woke mantra doesn’t give you the creeps. It did me.
https://youtu.be/vmooBea0Y0k?si=WHISkMRgWcFygpSd
‘kin hell.
Those poor children.
Indeed, and the psychotic teachers who did that to them.
So, let me get this straight: Should an Indian prime minister chose to have Sikhs living abroad murdered, this would boost his standing with the electorate in India? No wonder that 95% of the Sikhs in India pay emphatic lip services to their Hindu overlords. From a more European angle, murderous barbarians with assault rifles would come to mind as a phrase here.
I have a list if you have contact details…..
Turdeau certainly seems determined to drag Canada as far down the lavvy as he can before he us booted out.
But then Canadians voted him in, twice, so… just deserts I suppose.
I think it would be fair to say that India has been seen as a less ‘committed partner’ to the USA than Washington would like..and it’s recent improvement in it’s ties with China will no doubt have rankled a few people.
India has adopted neutrality toward Russia and has abstained from successive votes in the UN Security Council, General Assembly, and the Human Rights Council that condemned Russian aggression in Ukraine and thus far has refused to openly call out Russia as the instigator of the crisis.
It is considered by the US as a major democratic strategic partner ….and they are not unaware that India is a strong ally in the Indo-Pacific…..but it has not really given the ‘fealty’ that the US demands of its ‘partners’…nor the out right condemnation of Russia that the US insists on….
The G20 was held in New Delhi in September….and unlike Bali, the year before, Elenskyy was not extended an invitation ….. and critics felt that the strong condemnation of Russia in the Ukraine was ‘considerably watered down’ in New Delhi…
I suppose I could ignore all of this, and call me a sceptic but I can’t help thinking that maybe India is being given a ‘warning’ for not know-towing to the ‘rules based order’…just a gentle reminder of who is in charge?
After all several reports have said that the information given to Turdeau about the assassination came from “Intelligence gained by the “Five Eyes” network …of the US, UK, Canada Australia and New Zealand..and according to the New York Times it came directly via the USA…..which is indeed very fortuitous….
Talking of Canada…
https://youtu.be/n-mQyhwGWGc?si=HlnDC943k6lbJOsA
Wow when you throw accusations at people, they stick, sort of like Russell Brand recently. Looks like it is Justin’s turn. So many accusations….many of them disturbing. Just wondering if his masters have decided that he is no longer useful? Starting to look that way.