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  • 800 000 car jobs at grave risk

    From swldxer1958@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 17 09:13:18 2023
    Andy Palmer, former chief operating officer at Nissan, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the entire automobile sector in the UK – including 800,0000 – was at risk.

    He that it is was “impossible to meet local content rules unless you source your battery within the UK or EU” but the “supply chain at the moment isn’t there” in Britain. “The cost of failure is very clear. It is 800,000 jobs in the UK, which
    is those jobs associated with the car industry.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-vauxhall-electric-cars-uk-eu-b2340642.html

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  • From swldxer1958@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 17 10:02:31 2023
    Project fear.
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwWHHdZWAAooR7I?format=jpg&name=medium

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to swldx...@gmail.com on Wed May 17 16:30:54 2023
    swldx...@gmail.com <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
    Andy Palmer, former chief operating officer at Nissan, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the entire automobile sector in the UK – including 800,0000 – was at risk.

    He that it is was “impossible to meet local content rules unless you
    source your battery within the UK or EU” but the “supply chain at the moment isn’t there” in Britain. “The cost of failure is very clear. It is
    800,000 jobs in the UK, which is those jobs associated with the car industry.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-vauxhall-electric-cars-uk-eu-b2340642.html

    Let them make bicycles instead.

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    Spike

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  • From JNugent@21:1/5 to Spike on Wed May 17 18:22:46 2023
    On 17/05/2023 05:30 pm, Spike wrote:
    swldx...@gmail.com <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
    Andy Palmer, former chief operating officer at Nissan, told BBC Radio 4’s >> Today programme that the entire automobile sector in the UK – including
    800,0000 – was at risk.

    He that it is was “impossible to meet local content rules unless you
    source your battery within the UK or EU” but the “supply chain at the
    moment isn’t there” in Britain. “The cost of failure is very clear. It is
    800,000 jobs in the UK, which is those jobs associated with the car industry.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-vauxhall-electric-cars-uk-eu-b2340642.html

    Let them make bicycles instead.

    Of course!

    Even Mad Mason - perhaps *especially* Mad Mason - should be delighted
    that it might be a bit more difficult to build cars!

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  • From swldxer1958@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 17 10:40:50 2023
    Brexit’s lead economist Prof Patrick Minford on UK car industry:

    “You are going to have to run it down ... in the same way we ran down the coal industry and steel industry. These things happen.”

    This is the neoliberal Brexit plan. Note that Minford admits it was the UK that deliberately ran down its own steel industry. Are you listening in Redcar, Port Talbot and Sheffield? If you hear anyone blame the EU - show this this video.

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1056490686638383104

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to JNugent on Wed May 17 17:38:35 2023
    JNugent <jenningsandco@mail.com> wrote:
    On 17/05/2023 05:30 pm, Spike wrote:
    swldx...@gmail.com <swldxer1958@gmail.com> wrote:
    Andy Palmer, former chief operating officer at Nissan, told BBC Radio 4’s >>> Today programme that the entire automobile sector in the UK – including >>> 800,0000 – was at risk.

    He that it is was “impossible to meet local content rules unless you
    source your battery within the UK or EU” but the “supply chain at the >>> moment isn’t there” in Britain. “The cost of failure is very clear. It is
    800,000 jobs in the UK, which is those jobs associated with the car industry.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-vauxhall-electric-cars-uk-eu-b2340642.html

    Let them make bicycles instead.

    Of course!

    Even Mad Mason - perhaps *especially* Mad Mason - should be delighted
    that it might be a bit more difficult to build cars!

    There’s an excellent account of the issue on this evening’s PM programme on BBC R4, just after 1730, by the head of the SMMT.

    The key part that Mason hasn’t been told about is that this tariff works
    both ways, and EU manufacturers will also be subject to the 10% tariff,
    because battery components are sourced from overseas.

    Needless to say, EU manufacturers are unhappy about this, and are also
    pressing the EU to delay next January’s rule change.

    Now, the question is…do we export more cars to Europe than they export to
    the UK?

    So who loses if this change is not delayed?

    😀

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    Spike

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