Another day, another car manufacturer threatening to pull the plug.
Anybody got any info on how car plant employees voted over brexit?
Anybody got any info on how car plant employees voted over brexit?
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Can you give 3 reasons for voting labour that dont include self gain or being part of the eu?
What have the Roman's ever done for us?
Social and economic equity
Environment protection and global warming action
Social justice (less likely to hate and discriminate against people darker than Boris or indeed almost any minority group - however British Labor seem to make an exception for Jews)
Less likely to feck everyone not from the top end of town over, even those who vote for Tories despite it being manifestly in their worst interests.
Listen to any of the candidates for PM for more than 5 minutes.
Far more likely to rule for the common good and not just the good of Boris and his ilk.
Social and economic equity
Environment protection and global warming action
Social justice (less likely to hate and discriminate against people darker than Boris or indeed almost any minority group - however British Labor seem to make an exception for Jews)
Less likely to feck everyone not from the top end of town over, even those who vote for Tories despite it being manifestly in their worst interests.
Listen to any of the candidates for PM for more than 5 minutes.
Far more likely to rule for the common good and not just the good of Boris and his ilk.
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I haven't seen any. Sunderland was quite heavily Brexit though, and they have car manufacturing.
Under the present guise there's nothing, it's just gimme gimme and everyone else pay for it and a hopelessly weak leader.
I meant in the 70s when you voted for them
Mainly because I was so p!ssed off with Heath whom I blamed for having to study for my A-levels by candlelight, having passed my driving test and see the speed limit reduced and being issued with petrol rationing coupons, nothing deeper than that and possibly preferred the character of Wilson to Heath. Wasn't into politics.
Something -ling, always seems small. Can't find any notably thin quiz people though.A quizzling?
"Quizzling"?
Wasn't that the name of the Nazi sympathiser who ran Norway for the Germans during WW2? Similar set up to the Vichy State in France? Long time since I heard that one!
Wasn't that the name of the Nazi sympathiser who ran Norway for the Germans during WW2? Similar set up to the Vichy State in France? Long time since I heard that one!
Yes!!
This is extrapolating too far, I think. Not only are car workers only a small part of the local population but the referendum count itself wasn't all that granular; even breaking it down to a constituency is a guesstimate.
No doubt some of the workers did vote for Brexit but it is likely the larger effect is that the factories are located in areas where Brexit would have received a lot of support anyhow, regardless of the car factories.
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There was a Sunderland Nissan worker newbie a bit ago and he was unrepentant, saying he'd just get another job. Might need to retrain though.
Goid luck with that.
Vidkun Quisling. Not just a Nazi sympathizer, but the leader of Nasjonal Samling (National Unity/Rally), the Norwegian Nazis. He wanted to run Norway for the Germans, but the Germans wouldn't really let him because he was so unpopular. In the end we shot him, and he's the reason there are maybe ten people called Vidkun in Norway today, despite it being an old Norse name. Today quisling is quite literally in English dictionaries as a word for traitor and collaborator.
In other words, Vidkun Quisling really fecked up.
20 years for a commercial agreement between the EU and the Mercosur
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48807161
Another that the UK would miss out if finally they go down the Brexit road
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48807161
Another that the UK would miss out if finally they go down the Brexit road
I'm 53 and out of work, i might need to retrain to become a low paid intern.
On the other hand a no deal Brexit will facilitate a trade deal with the US
Will it? Didn’t the speaker say if we damage the GFA then no deal?
Leave.eu tried to "claim their first scalp" yesterday.
Amber Rudd stands up for Gauke and is told "you're next".
No it'll mean the us can bend us over backwards and ship all their fecking awful, unregulated food over here.
Thank you for that, knew he wasn't very popular in Norway, didn't realise you had shot him! A salutary lesson perhaps?
Goooldberg! Goooldberg!
The Uk's single biggest customer is the USA before Brexit - fortunately they have the EU to protect them from the USA dumping all their crap on the UK. After Brexit the UK can say goodbye to that and the industries which are producing what they are currently selling to the USA. American word for stupid is dumb.
And potentially pharmaceuticals.
True... who would want poor people to have access to cheaper food (that isn't harmful).
Yeah shipping stuff across the atlantic ocean is famously cheap.
Why would they ship it if it was "awful" and also not cheap? Surely then it wouldn't sell?
The deal will cost EU farmers billions. Oh and it's also terrible for the Amazon, but y'know, whatever
Who do you mean, the Americans or the British? If you mean the Americans the answer is pretty obvious.
You may find it is slightly more expensive to ship from America than Europe, what about the regulations - whose going to check it and will there even be any regulations, don't forget the time factor and if American unregulated food or anything else is in circulation in the UK, it's customs checks all round and a hard border.
My point was that if the food is awful and expensive there would be no market for it rendering any concern over its import moot.
The food would be regulated at source in America prior to export of course.
So it could be too expensive and shipment time is about 28 days from say Boston to Tilbury.
Food would be regulated at source by who?, the Americans ? products will have to be regulated by UK customs/regulators unless and to what standards? US shipper would have to supply documentation to prove the product complies with UK standards and if UK standards don't meet EU standards...
My post was in reply to a post EU standard environment regarding poor quality and expensive food.
My reply was regarding there being no need to worry about anyone importing poor quality, expensive food; since it would be commercially a non-starter. Conversely if the food were cheaper and safe then it would provide a cheaper means of sustinance for the poorest.
In terms of regulation in this theoretical scenario the UK government would agree that American standards were acceptable for the UK market (so the regulation would occur in the US). Just like products from the EU are currently regulated in the country of origin (to the agreed EU standard)