BREXIT

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Quote from: VNA on 28 May 2019, 11:12:02 PM

    Can I just post this again;
    Harley Davidson looking for a European manufactuering base.
    https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2019...ld-europe/

    But of course like a great many companies one country they will not be considering right now is the UK.

Thank foc for that  :lol

I'm with you there Hedgetrimmer over priced crap

I agree.  I have no interest in Harley Davidsons.  But I would quite happily see them manufactured here for the UK and Euro market. 



You are talking quality well paid jobs.


But the reality is Harley Davidson will not consider the UK as a manufacturing base for even a nono second. 



Nissan has cancelled the UK production of the X-Trail in the UK.  Honda is moving out lock, stop and barrel.  Schaeffler are moving out.  Michelin are moving out.  There is now a growing list of companies moving part or all of their production out of the UK.


The priority for these manufactures is to access the EU single market.  Even your darling economist Professor Minford, in his frankly flawed positive analysis of a NO DEAL BREXIT, admits that UK manufacturing will be all but wiped out.


I am, and continue to be, at a complete and total loss as to why any ordinary person in the UK would wish the UK to leave the EU and the single market.


We will become poorer outside the EU.

You appear to suggest that we have as a nation, and as individuals, somehow become richer as a direct result of EU membership, that out manufacturing blossomed and grew during our membership. I see little evidence of that. Our Councils/local authorities are severely cash strapped, the NHS is chronically underfunded, the roads have all been carpet bombed with no hope of quality repairs, some people cant get to see a GP without a 2 week wait, we cant build our own power stations without funding/materials/labour/expertise from abroad, the streets are overrun by criminal gangs with no hope of apprehending many of them (and they know it), our schools churn out people unfit for the world of work cos they cant read or write, let alone string a sentence together. Our political systems are collapsing due to lack of confidence, the previously nationalised industries fleece money from us and dont invest to provide future security of supplies. During your so called golden period of membership, I was made redundant 4 times as companies shifted the work overseas, or as in one case, the EU created an internal market which made the product we recycled worth more as scrap.


Our membership of the EU has not been a Golden Period of British history