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Honda confirms closure of Swindon plant with loss of 3,500 jobs

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    #11
    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    Why did you post this in this particular forum. It's got nothing to do with Brexit and everything to do with Japan having a free trade deal with the EU.
    Why would they manufacture cars in a country that doesn't have a deal if there is a deal in place from their own country?
    Debatable. The FTA also removed the tariffs on the import of car parts almost immediately - the intention of this was to ensure that car parts (and not just cars) made it in tariff-free so that manufacturing here could continue.

    Given that there's going to be a reduction of car manufacturing in the UK, car workers might want the option of moving to where the work is (mainland Europe). Unfortunately, their FoM to do that is being taken away...

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      #12
      Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
      Nothing to do with Brexit, diesel engines, were going to close anyway, who needs car manufacturing, fook business, it's Swindon no-one will notice the difference, etc , etc
      you still here? - FFS.

      spouting the usual bitterballen too.

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        #13
        Originally posted by BR14 View Post
        you still here? - FFS.

        spouting the usual bitterballen too.

        Why don't you go to antarctica if you hate foreigners so much?

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          #14
          Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
          Why don't you go to antarctica if you hate foreigners so much?
          Dumont d'Urville Station - Wikipedia

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            #15
            Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
            Why don't you go to antarctica if you hate foreigners so much?
            I don't hate foreigners.

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              #16
              Meanwhile a company that doesn't make disgusting diesels,that is investing heavily in all electric production, hires yet more staff...

              Lotus Cars to recruit 200 more staff - BBC News

              Lotus teases GBP1m+ 'Type 130' electric hypercar at Shanghai Motor Show

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                #17
                Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                Meanwhile a company that doesn't make disgusting diesels,that is investing heavily in all electric production, hires yet more staff...

                Lotus Cars to recruit 200 more staff - BBC News

                Lotus teases GBP1m+ 'Type 130' electric hypercar at Shanghai Motor Show
                Honda’s investing heavily in electric. Just not in Swindon.

                Honda reveals it had plans to make electric cars in Swindon before plant closure | Swindon Advertiser

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                  #18
                  Yeah, bugger the car industry, who needs it....

                  Subscribe to read | Financial Times

                  Why the new Land Rover Defender is not being built in the UK - CoventryLive
                  Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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                    #19
                    Jaguar Land Rover: How EU rules left Slovakia free to entice car maker from UK with GBP110m state aid sweetener

                    Read that, then vote Brexit Party.

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                      #20
                      So why didn’t UK use EU rules to entice car makers?

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