hedda wrote:
if it goes ahead it will be a disaster.
But it's very difficult talking to rusted-on Brexiters and trying to explain the consequences (even as Nissan & Rolls Royce announce they will quit Britain)
So many come back with the claim Britain will be able to do fabulous Trade Deals with..Australia and elsewhere without a single bit of knowledge how these deals are done.
For instance Australia has just done the biggest trade deal in it's lifetime with Indonesia (now at risk because the dickhead PM has announce Australia will move it's embassy to Jerusalem)..
It's taken FIVE YEARS with the experts proclaiming how quick it was !!!
Meanwhile the EU & China have just signed off on one of the biggest Trade agreements of all time.
Britain will be out on it's own yet still have to obey all EU rules..with NIL input.
MADNESS !
USELESS INFO: just listened to a lovely radio program on Rolls Royce and it was Mr Royce who was the genius behind these cars with Mr Rolls backing it...it should have really been called a Royce Rolls !!!!
Nissan have done such an enormous amount to regenerate the North East - after the demise of the coal, ship building and steel industries.
Their Sunderland factory, opened over 30 years ago, employs 8,000 people - with another 30,000 supplying components.
However, millions of components also arrive every day - in Sunderland, from EU countries - in Nissan's 'just in time' strategy. These components attract no tariffs or customs delays.
Should this change - in a hard Brexit - Nissan would likely relocate to France, as they have an alliance with Renault; they also have an alliance (joint ownership agreement) with Mitsubishi.
Investment in Sunderland - where the new X-Trail and Qashqai were expected to be built - ceased some months ago.
Notwithstanding these clear and simple facts - over 60% of the people of Sunderland voted to leave.
Probably cutting off the hand that feeds them.
Is the future Lady May really responsible for this?