Leaving The Eu?

[The Seeker 3,048]

A friend sent this to me.

 

So Exiting-the EU !!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are wondering why many in Great Britain voted OUT here are some examples from a Brit friend:

 

Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant.

 

Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds.
Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.
British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.
Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan.
Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone to Poland with EU grant, once employed 1,200.
M&S manufacturing gone to far east with EU loan.
Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along with the patents all with with EU grants.
Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant.
Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant.
Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant.
Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding.
Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing.
ICI integration into Holland’s AkzoNobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs
Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £ million a year, using an EU loan for the purchase.
JDS Uniphase run by two Dutch men, bought up companies in the UK with £20 million in EU 'regeneration' grants, created a pollution nightmare and just closed it all down leaving 1,200 out of work and an environmental clean-up paid for by the UK tax-payer. They also raided the pension fund and drained it dry.

 

UK airports are owned by a Spanish company.

Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company.
Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies.
The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built by French company EDF, part owned by the French government, using cheap Chinese steel that has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations. Now EDF say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online.
Swindon was once our producer of rail locomotives and rolling stock. Not any more, it's Bombardier in Derby and due to their losses in the aviation market, that could see the end of the British railways manufacturing altogether even though Bombardier had EU grants to keep Derby going which they diverted to their loss-making aviation side in Canada.

 

39% of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, many of them in the EU
The Mini cars that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria. His campaign bus was made in Germanyeven though we have Plaxton, Optare, Bluebird, Dennis etc., in the UK. The bicycle for the Greens was made in the far east, not by Raleigh UK but then they are probably going to move to the Netherlands too as they have said recently.

Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn't paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK. Name me one major technology company still running in the UK, I used to contract out to many, then the work just dried up as they were sold off to companies from France,Germany, Holland, Belgium, etc., and now we don't even teach electronic technology for technicians any more, due to EU regulations.

I haven't detailed the Brit non-existent fishing industry the EU paid to destroy, nor the farmers being paid NOT to produce food they could sell for more than they get paid to do nothing, don't even go there.
I haven't mentioned what it costs us to be asset-stripped like this, nor have I mentioned immigration, nor the risk to our security if control of our armed forces is passed to Brussels or Germany.

Find something that's gone the other way, I've looked and I just can't. If you think the EU is a good idea

 

[Silversnake 1,099]

Staggering seeker, I hear of the same sort of things happening here all the time. Ford, Holden, Toyota, Mitsubishi (and probably more) all shipping overseas with thousands of job losses, bonds, Vegemite and these are just off the top of my head. We have foreign owned mines which pay little to no tax who also get water grants, tax payer funded roads and rail and when they've finished raping and polluting the land and river systems they sack the workers and tell us we should be thankful! It beggars belief! Good on everyone who voted out while I am sure the transition won't be painless, I am sure it is the right decision.

[The Seeker 3,048]

Agreed, it's not going to be painless BUT long term we will benifit as a country. It's tragic to see British industry be relocated abroad,

 

The scaremongers are the same crowd who told us we would be finished if we didn't get rid of the pound and adopt the Euro and look how that's turned out.

 

One of our biggest problems is going to be getting those too lazy to get off their arses to pick up the slack left by the immigrant workers to fill the low paid manual jobs, how can there be two million on the dole yet hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans can come over and find work? It might need a firm approach to resolve that one, I just hope May's got the guts to deliver.

[Silversnake 1,099]

Good luck with the bludgers, unfortunately there are a lot of opportunistic scavengers all through the planet, even in nature. I hope somehow some pride can be instilled as a too hard approach can often create even worse results. I hope the right balance is found somehow.

[The Seeker 3,048]

This guy is a really good speaker

 

https://youtu.be/tzNj-hH8LkY

[Silversnake 1,099]

He certainly can speak, I liked his conclusion and I agree Britain's song is not yet sung and things are shifting in the right direction. Atvb.

[pesky1972 5,328]

Euromillions tickets up to £2.50. Brexit to blame.

I can see another EU referendum being called for, with an 'IN' vote fcuking nailed on now ?

[ChrisJones 7,975]

A lot less chance of winning, Max?

[BGD 6,436]

The lottery is just a tax on the stupid....

 

Why doesn't it surprise me max is an avid lotto player?

[ChrisJones 7,975]

Max, the odds of winning the jackpot are nearly 117 million to one.

[ChrisJones 7,975]

I'd rather donate the £52 a year.

[Malt 379]

I'd rather donate the £52 a year.

£104 a year now mate, they've doubled the cost to £2 a shot now! Plus they've added another 10 balls to the mix and made the odds even longer..

[ChrisJones 7,975]

£104 a year now mate, they've doubled the cost to £2 a shot now! Plus they've added another 10 balls to the mix and made the odds even longer..

 

£104 a year, at the current exchange rate, is about $140USD give or take.

 

F*ck it... I'll donate that to the local PBT, no kill shelter. At least it's doing something instead of making someone else rich.

[scothunter 12,609]

Yea i quit the lotto when they upped the price and added more balls,

Total f***ing piss take.

 

i often wonder how stupid they think we really are!