Tony Porter Ponders: Great news for Wigan, Toyota surprise and impress

Making the town centre smaller can only help with, what is, the difficult situation many High Street chains are feeling.

Along with plenty of road resurfacing around town and work on the Civic Centre getting noisy, which is good, it looks like Wigan has turned a corner.

I had a link sent to me from a reader of this very column, who does not live in Wigan, but hey.

They thought I would be interested in what Toyota have devised; they were right. Toyota are about to showcase portable hydrogen cartridges that look a bit like giant AA batteries.

These are not in anyway nuclear, but a quick way of topping up the power in your car, and refillable, no need for the non-environmental infrastructure of coppering up the planet with EV points, quicker than charging too.

Easily carried by hand or in a backpack they, Toyota, think these could have many other uses too, including generating electricity in emergencies, or even provided hydrogen for cooking.

This prototype idea will be at the Japan Mobility Bizweek including with a gas stove designed to show of its versatility.

This is the type of tech and green energy we in the UK should be looking into investing in, imagine the opportunities and jobs it could create. Information taken from TechRadar website.

Talking of investing after their first one hundred days in charge, Keir admitting on a newscast interview, it had had a few “Choppy Days”, rather an understatement in my personal opinion, which all this is to be fair.

They held an International Investment Summit on Monday for businesses to invest in the UK, a good idea, if they do. P&O’s parent company attended, after saying they would not due to the new transport secretary calling for them to be boycotted due to being a “rouge operator” after firing hundreds of staff via a phone message.

To a point I agree with her, but sometimes its better to keep quiet rather than say what you really think, I am guessing many think that about me, but more do not.

Keir opened the Summit with an inspiring speech, I am being ironic, stating that they will ‘stabilise the economy’ ‘quickly’ because they ‘don’t want any problems associated with’ their ‘inheritance’.

Rachel Reeves said about business taxation ‘We need to get this right’ could not agree more, encourage small businesses and make the massive companies pay a fair wedge, least that’s my plan.

Of course, if it is this easy to sort stuff out, why couldn’t the previous government do it, it was in their interest to win the election by doing right for the people, but they didn’t.

Are we going on a route they could not see, where they preoccupied with self-destruction and arguing?

They are looking for a new leader after Rishi Rich said he would step down, but even doing this they have tactically shot themselves in the foot with the choice of Kemi ‘I hate pregnant women’ Badenoch and Robert ‘who’ Jenrick remaining.