Featured Moorcroft Pottery goes bust

That’s very sad,after so many many years of rich history. Why didn’t they try and sell the company?

 

Just read the article. Seems there’s a definite downhill spiral across the industry (as you noted) And with a massive increase of
£250 000 in the energy bill over 2 years coupled with aggressive other taxes the company was doomed.

 

Wow,very telling!!

 

So if you import from abroad you don't incur the footprint? It gets passed to whoever produced the fuel? Politics gone mad

 

Or, as they would say at Moorcroft,

 

Yikes, this is so sad

 

Oh, the tragedy!
I had the joy of touring "the potteries" area in 2019. I visited several potteries in the Stoke area including Moorcroft, Middleport/Burleigh, Spode, and Dudson. In fact, I happened to be in the Dudson gift shop when the store clerk was notified that Dudson had gone into administration and over 300 workers were being sent home for good!
The poor woman looked so harried and upset. She and a few other workers were frantically wrapping up and boxing museum items to be sent to another pottery for storage in order to prevent them from being lost to the world by unappreciative administrators. I actually had to gently talk her into selling me the couple of souvenir items I wanted to purchase, she said she wasn't even sure she was supposed to continue selling, but she'd heard nothing "official" from anyone.

 

Sad & mad situation all-around. The more desperate and mad (even if well-meaning) solutions are implemented-the more madmen will be elected to push back against the madness !
I'm in the States,and even as a Lib,it's evident to me that a lot of my fellow SuperLibs brought some of this on themselves.
Seems like the last time the UK & the US populations were strongly united in 'common cause' was WWII-anything since ?

 

The UK doesn't need our help to kill industry; their own energy policies are doing the job on their own.

 

Net zero is impossible -- at least in the near future. The disastrous economic policies in Britain are coming home to roost. So very sad, Moorcroft was a high quality, high art company.

 

Such sad news indeed . Ive always liked their stuff. On the bright side (if there is one) Moorcroft pottery should go up again .

 

Bummer. I had recently seen a pretty modern video about how they were still at it. Not enough people have extra money for art I suppose, coupled with the expenses of running the operation. Dislike!!!!

 

We do need to reverse course on pollution but to do that means curtailing profits, restructuring of labor from one type of job to another, investment without profit, cultural shifts, and more.

Essentially it requires companies making less money and spending more to do things in a sustainable way and governments shifting money to maintain these structures and none of these people want to have less yachts.

So instead they "greenwash" things. They put out propaganda shifting the blame to us. Recycle, even though they just ship it to another country to burn or throw in the ocean. Because unless it's alum and making money, it's a burden. Buy an EV, but don't ask where the electricity comes from or where the batteries are gonna go. Plant a tree, but try not to think about the loggers. Etc etc etc.

I believe we need change but I'm tired of them lying to us and making performative BS so we think it's our fault and solution, when it's big corporations and governments.

 

Yeah the last things on anyone's shopping list are ornaments. Food, rent, fuel, healthcare, toiletries and anything with any utility all come first.

 

Aw man, I'm doing it wrong. Must have turned the list upside down.

 

Yeah me too

 

Or put them over parking lots and places nothing usable grows. I see solar "farms" over beautiful wisconsin farmland and it just makes me cringe. In California we've driven through desert areas where they've put up wind turbines, nothing grows out there besides a few cactus and tumbleweeds. I feel like that's the place for solar and wind installations.
Edited to add "I'm not a real fan of most of what California does but I think they've got this right."
Linda