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Honda to close UK factory

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    #31
    Originally posted by woohoo View Post
    How are we fecked? What percentage of our GDP is from car manufacturing? Minus subsidies and tariffs.
    WGAS. Britain first!

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      #32
      Originally posted by cojak View Post
      3,500 (and the rest) jobs kind of fecked.
      Yes but probably no related supply chain jobs or anything like that.

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        #33
        Originally posted by woohoo View Post
        How are we fecked? What percentage of our GDP is from car manufacturing? Minus subsidies and tariffs.


        Largest export commodities of the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017 (in million GBP)*

        1. Mechanical machinery - 48 bln
        2. Cars - 32 bln GBP
        3. Electrical machinery - 27 bln
        4. Medicimal & pharma - 26 bln

        • Largest UK export commodities 2017 | Statistic

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          #34
          Originally posted by AtW View Post


          Largest export commodities of the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017 (in million GBP)*

          1. Mechanical machinery - 48 bln
          2. Cars - 32 bln GBP
          3. Electrical machinery - 27 bln
          4. Medicimal & pharma - 26 bln

          • Largest UK export commodities 2017 | Statistic
          48 billion million. Hyperinflation is a bitch.

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            #35
            Originally posted by cojak View Post
            3,500 (and the rest) jobs kind of fecked.
            Simple solution, run about and throw some things.

            The Olympics boom created 100,000 jobs in London | London Evening Standard

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              #36
              Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
              Simple solution, run about and throw some things.
              Isn’t that the motto of the Swindon town planners?

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                #37
                Originally posted by cojak View Post
                3,500 (and the rest) jobs kind of fecked.
                So when you say we are fecked you mean not you and not me but 3500 jobs affected by this.

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by woohoo View Post
                  So when you say we are fecked you mean not you and not me but 3500 jobs affected by this.
                  Is it only going to be a problem if it affects you directly and tangibly?

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by woohoo View Post
                    So when you say we are fecked you mean not you and not me but 3500 jobs affected by this.
                    No, I mean me and you - Someone will have to pick up the tab for this disaster and you can bet your sweet patootie it won’t be Rees-Mogg, Martin or Dyson.
                    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                      #40
                      Feeling lied to yet?

                      Vote Leave leaflet from just before the referendum:

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