REFERENDUM RESULTS AND DISCUSSION THREAD

[Nando]

Honda closing their Swindon factory. 3500 jobs lost.

 

[Penk Wolf]

Honda closing their Swindon factory. 3500 jobs lost.

Wrong thread.

 

[Tredman]

No, entirely correct thread:

Last year, the senior vice-president of Honda Europe warned that if the UK left the EU without a deal, it would cost his company tens of millions of pounds.

Ian Howells told the BBC that quitting the bloc without an agreement would affect the carmaker's competitiveness in Europe.

He said the Japanese firm was preparing for a no-deal outcome, but had not discussed relocating its Swindon plant.

They clearly decided the risk was too great

 

[Penk Wolf]

No, entirely correct thread:



They clearly decided the risk was too great

Oh right, so we've left without a deal then...

BMI was blaming Brexit yesterday.

 

[Kenny]

Oh right, so we've left without a deal then...

BMI was blaming Brexit yesterday.

I guess that a month or so to go and no idea which direction we are going in isn't helping.

Whether or not Brexit has any play in reasons why some companies close, it will be a handy excuse between now and whenever this shitstorm is settled.

 

[Kenny]

Merc F1 team on Brexit

 

[Tredman]

Oh right, so we've left without a deal then...

BMI was blaming Brexit yesterday.

Specifically blaming UK airlines being excluded from emission trading. Which has already happened.

 

[Penk Wolf]

I guess that a month or so to go and no idea which direction we are going in isn't helping.

Whether or not Brexit has any play in reasons why some companies close, it will be a handy excuse between now and whenever this shitstorm is settled.

I'd have said they'd move back to Japan now they have a free trade deal even if we stayed in the EU.

 

[Johnny75]

I'd have said they'd move back to Japan now they have a free trade deal even if we stayed in the EU.

Think you're right. The timing's too coincidental. If we'd have stayed in the EU I'm not sure it would've made much difference.

There is an opportunity for another car company to fill that void.

 

[Keef]

Tbh can't see another car company moving into the factory,who'd want the extra cost of tariffs if it's a no deal brexit? Porsche have already said their cars go up in price by 10% to cover the tariff cost,and VW their owners have said it's a possibility of the other marques doing the same,so that's VW,Audi,skoda,seat,Bentley,Lamborghini and MAN trucks and vans.
Ford looking at closing Bridgend plant due to it being not very competitive and in the wrong place now at the end of a very long chain.
Nissan pulling new X trail car out of Sunderland.
BMW closing mini production for a month or so end of March while they look into supply chains and how brexit is going to affect that plant.
Finally Land Rover and their well publicised problems and also writing off 3.4 billion as losses,and looking at closing castle Bromwich plant anyway,doesn't leave a lot of other companies to step in and take over Swindon,but it's all project fear apparently

 

[playtheace]

Think you're right. The timing's too coincidental. If we'd have stayed in the EU I'm not sure it would've made much difference.

There is an opportunity for another car company to fill that void.

Honda closing plant in Swindon.
Jeremy Vine : should the people who voted brexit be the first to go? .... let's discuss

Fucking laughable, what next?.. Sack the ones who didn't buy an Honda car second?
Sack cheese and onion crisps eaters third.

Its like the millennium bug scaremongering x1000

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The thing is, Y2K wasn't scaremongering. A problem was identified years in advance and they put tons of these things called "experts" in charge of fixing it. When the time came, there were next to no issues as proper preparation by qualified people had avoided all the problems.

Brexit is the opposite to that if anything.

 

[Sniffer]

According to Katya Alderweireld, the EU's stance in the backstop shows no sign of softening and that the two sides after talks today are as far apart as ever.

Who would have thought that?

Parliament votes to renegotiate the backstop and she sees that as an instruction that she has to carry out. Parliament also voted to take no deal off of the table however she can choose to ignore that request.

 

[Johnny75]

 

[Deleted Cyber]

:ursofunny:

 

[SLA]

I've only watched the first ten minutes or so but here's Sir Ivan Rogers, former permanent UK representative to the EU, talking to the European Union Select Committee https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/0a3b6029-656d-4b3d-bb81-632fd6700268

Very pessimistic about the prospect of a deal, pretty scornful of Theresa May's strategy of winding the clock down and very clear that if you think this bit of Brexit has been complicated and difficult to manage, just wait until we try to negotiate a trade deal with the 27 EU nations.

 

[Sniffer]

So Gauke, Clark and Rudd have gone off piste and stated in an article in the Heil that if a deal isn't approved through Parliament this week then Brexit should be delayed.

 

[Tredman]

The coward at number 10 postpones another vote. If we crash out because of this nonsense let's hope someone has the decency to take her out one way or another.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

She's a real piece of shit.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

That is simply unbelievable.

The sow is going to kick the fucking can until 28 March. She needs to be removed.