Good post.
I'm not saying Nissan aren't building the X-trail or that Honda have pulled out purely because of Brexit. I'm saying that Brexit is a contributory factor towards that decision. Its nothing to do with balance when jobs are lost and Brexit has contributed towards that decision making process. Seems to me that Brexiteers bury their head in the sand and just seek to discredit every credible source or company.
It doesn't help when Boris Johnson says F%@k business. Many of the companies here are foreign owned, and we are putting trade barriers in place with the largest trading bloc in the world and our largest customer.
UK employment is at a record high because of the way they measure it. One hour part time jobs per week and zero hours contracts now count towards it.
Brexit has created a situation where we have no idea what will happen after March 29th. Business uncertainty and a lack of clarity from the government is causing major headaches across the country. This could be an absolute disaster and Brexit is the cause. I'm happy for reasoned debate, but have no idea why anyone would advocate a no deal Brexit. Its plain lunacy.
And I still can't work out one tangible benefit of why we are doing this.
I can't disagree with most of what you say there. There is no denying that the handling of this over the last 2 years has been utterly appalling and yes i do believe our incompetent politicians have caused several companies such as Sony to say enough.
One minor point but rather than Brexit being the cause of this unrest, I'd say its the handling of it that's been the problem and the lack of certainty all the dithering has sent out. Had the last 2 years been used productively and had the people who promised the benefits of leaving been involved in the negotiations rather than a sceptical civil service and remain politicians, we may we have been in a different place and we all could have judged them accordingly. Then, maybe then I'd be in favour of voting on whether they'd delivered on their promises or not. I would agree that with the examples we've highlighted, Brexit uncertainty has not helped an already uncertain market like car manufacturing but I do think these factors would be in play in several cases regardless.
As the average increase was around 3% I would suggest the NHS increase was not a factor. Another made up stat to support a busted concept?
Local news just visited a windows manufacturer who because of the shortage of skilled workers were having to raise their wages. £45k was mentioned. For me that is a truer reflection of what is going on out there.
Please excuse me as I haven't read the whole thread and have no intention of doing so. In truth I haven't even read the whole of your post but these few words leaped out at me like a pink hippo in a bikini whilst post skimming. Just wondering whether these impartial news source thingies could be found next to the pixies, the unicorns or somewhere in between them?
I tend to advise people not to rely on news sources for impartial information. For a whole host of reasons including time and budget restraints articles are often poorly researched, and this is even before we get to issues such as impartiality or potential bias. Use news sources as a guide for what to look for if you have to, but don't rely on them.
The truth is out there..........
Here we go with the scare tactics on jobs again.
On Tuesday of this week EVERY news station was reporting that the number in employment had risen by a huge chunk again in recent months and that the number of people in work was the largest in history.
The unemployment rate at 4% was the lowest since 1975.......that’s 44 f king years!!
Wages were rising at around 3.4% more than 1% more than inflation.
I’m not saying this is Eutopia but we are British and a huge number of us have balls.
We fight our way out of adversity throughout history.
I’ve lived through the horrors of the Labour governed 70’s,recessions in early 80’s and 90’s and the 2008 financial meltdown and every time the doom monger like you were wearing the hood and waving the sycle.
I’m sick of the “surrender monkey” mentality.
Most on here know what I do for my living,I don’t remember you ever staying in which field you work?
People need to discover some backbone and create their own future rather than expecting a job for life.