O/T DDay for Brexit..well sort of...

[brassgnat]

One of the newspaper headlines is that there are plans to evacuate the Queen, if we all start rioting.
Gettaway driver- Prince Phillip?

[animallittle3]

I notice Nissan has pulled production of the X Trail originally planned for Sunderland and taking it to Japan.

Anything you'd like to add to this ????



https://janetteheffernan.blogspot.co...no-longer.html

[great_fire]

EU grant for Ford to move Transit production to Turkey when they're not even in the EU (although they're still negotiating entry even though their leader is now an Islamist).

So favouring an non-EU country over an EU one.

Surprised we didn't leave earlier with things like this going on.

[WanChaiMiller]

Anything you'd like to add to this ????



https://janetteheffernan.blogspot.co...no-longer.html

Yes.

http://ilovetheeu.co.uk/trade/no-the...out-of-the-uk/

[animallittle3]

Yes.

http://ilovetheeu.co.uk/trade/no-the...out-of-the-uk/

For the sake of argument lets take the EU grant out of it Wan Chai .

However my point is this , membership of the EU guarantees you nothing in terms of keeping company's in the UK , absolutely zilch .

In fact Nissan could have moved their production from Sunderland anytime they wanted .

The EU protects nowt

[KerrAvon]

For the sake of argument lets take the EU grant out of it Wan Chai .

However my point is this , membership of the EU guarantees you nothing in terms of keeping company's in the UK , absolutely zilch .

In fact Nissan could have moved their production from Sunderland anytime they wanted .

The EU protects nowt

The EU doesn't stop companies leaving, animal. Nobody is claiming that there are any guarantees. If circumstances change to make a country unattractive - say a sudden hike in corporate taxes, an increase in union power or excessive and expensive regulation - they will go. But membership of the Single Market and Customs Unions provides an incentive to stay, because it makes it easier and cheaper to do business with the remainder of the EU.

I hope this helps.

[WanChaiMiller]

It was a loan to Ford not a grant and it didnt strictly shift production direct to Turkey.

March 2010, the UK government offer a loan guarantee for a £450 million EU loan to Ford. With a backdrop of Ford making massive loses, the loan designed to safeguard production in Southampton and Es***. However continued losses meant they ultimately closed.

We hear about the £8m loan to the Turkey plant but not the £450m loan to the UK division.

[WanChaiMiller]

Makes you wonder why Thatcher had a dislike for the EU doesn' it?

Sponges keep soaking it up

The Single Europe Act, that paved the way to the establishment of the Single Market and Custom Union was the idea Thatcher.

[WanChaiMiller]

Transcript of Thatchers Lancaster house speach 1988 where she outline the massive benefit to UK businesses of the Single Market. Worth a read.

https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107219

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

According to today’s Observer newspaper a number of Labour MPs are considering starting a new centre-left party because they are unhappy with Comrade Corbyn’s stance on brexit.

Right, left or centre what a furkin mess this all is.