hackey lad   3,984 #3109 Posted July 29, 2021 49 minutes ago, geared said: No, thats actual news.  Do you know what Fake news actually means? Actual news that is wrong and posted to try to make a point that is wrong. Thats fake news. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Magilla   510 #3110 Posted July 29, 2021 (edited)  3 hours ago, sadbrewer said: Honda also closed it's european other factory in Turkey... Turkey is not an EU member, the cars produced there were for Honda's non-EU/internal market.  Quote which is in the European Customs Union. Turkey is not in the European Customs Union!  Turkey has a separate customs union arrangement with the EU, that is distinctly different.  Goods may travel between the two entities without any customs restrictions, but goods entering the EU from Turkey *are* subject to tariffs.  Hence, Honda never produced cars for the EU market in Turkey, it would not be economically viable to do so.  1 hour ago, West 77 said: It isn't true Brexit had any bearing on Honda's decision to close their factory in Swindon as implied by the serial anti Brexit poster making it Fake News. LOL, no-one with any connection to the auto industry seems to agree: https://www.ft.com/content/8f1e39b0-338b-11e9-bd3a-8b2a211d90d5  Honda had been avoiding making a decision about Swindon for many years, Brexit ultimately tipped the balance. Edited July 29, 2021 by Magilla Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Magilla   510 #3111 Posted July 29, 2021 4 hours ago, hackey lad said: So , thats fake news then ? Is it?  Why is it?  What do you think?  Do you even have an opinion?  Why not share it?  It might take more than a one liner glib comment though, so don't overtax yourself!  Same ole Hanckneyed... you're not fooling anyone... you haven't changed at all! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Magilla   510 #3112 Posted July 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, West 77 said: Why haven't both Toyota and Nissan closed their UK factories like what Honda have done? Do you think Brexit only happened for Honda and didn't happen for Toyota and Nissan? ...because, as has been repeatedly stated, Honda had structural issues with their business that Brexit made impossible to resolve, unlike Toyota and Nissan.  As before, Brexit was not the only issue, but it was the straw that broke the camels back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
geared   319 #3113 Posted July 30, 2021 14 hours ago, West 77 said: It isn't true Brexit had any bearing on Honda's decision to close their factory in Swindon as implied by the serial anti Brexit poster making it Fake News. Which the news piece makes quite clear 14 hours ago, hackey lad said: Actual news that is wrong and posted to try to make a point that is wrong. Thats fake news.  No, the actual news is correct.   Once more, it's not fake news and you seem to have little idea what fake news actually is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
HumbleNarrator   286 #3114 Posted July 30, 2021 The threat title has a biased slant. "consequences" usually means the negative result of an action.  A better, more neutral title, could have been something like "Britain post Brexit". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
carosio   186 #3115 Posted July 30, 2021 13 minutes ago, HumbleNarrator said: The threat title has a biased slant. "consequences" usually means the negative result of an action.  A better, more neutral title, could have been something like "Britain post Brexit". A Freudian slip? 😄 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
The Joker   10 #3116 Posted July 30, 2021 So, back to the topic at hand:  We still don't have control of our borders. Refugees are continuing to arrive on our shoes, and we can't send them back to the European mainland.  We're paying Le Francais £tens of millions to so . . . something.  The fishermen who voted for Brexit are having their livelihoods ruined.  The farmers are next, because they can no longer receive EU subsidies, and the Evil Tory government have signed an one-sided trade deal with Austroylier' (the former penal conoly) to ship their beef over here.  And it now costs a fortune in fees, time and effort to ship high-value items to mainland Europe.  Can anybody remind me of the benefits again?  And I mean, a real, tanglible benefit, not a jingoistic cliche about democracy, Lockdoctor.     Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
El Cid   220 #3117 Posted July 30, 2021 11 minutes ago, West 77 said: You make a valid point. This thread is "The Consequences of Brexit (part  9)" which has been created by a forum moderator who naturally continued with the same title as the previous 8 Consequences of Brexit threads. My guess is the original thread which must have been called "The Consequences of Brexit"  was created by a Remainer, anti Brexit, anti British and anti democracy poster which explains the biased slant to the thread title. Perhaps this thread should now be closed and replaced with a new thread titled "Great Britain post Brexit" The dictionary definition does imply a negative, but it can also be a positive.  Feel free to start a positive thread and see if we are still posting to it 5 years later. 1 minute ago, The Joker said: So, back to the topic at hand:  We still don't have control of our borders. Refugees are continuing to arrive on our shoes, and we can't send them back to the European mainland.  We're paying Le Francais £tens of millions to so . . . something.  The fishermen who voted for Brexit are having their livelihoods ruined.  The farmers are next, because they can no longer receive EU subsidies, and the Evil Tory government have signed an one-sided trade deal with Austroylier' (the former penal conoly) to ship their beef over here.  And it now costs a fortune in fees, time and effort to ship high-value items to mainland Europe.  Can anybody remind me of the benefits again? We can no longer blame the EU for our curvy cucumbers or the dinghies, its all down to Boris Johnson. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Mister Gee   825 #3118 Posted July 30, 2021 What a plonker. https://www.intrafish.com/trade/pro-brexit-salmon-smoker-lance-forman-now-wants-government-compensation-for-brexit-related-costs/2-1-952195 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
The Joker   10 #3119 Posted July 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Mister Gee said: What a plonker. https://www.intrafish.com/trade/pro-brexit-salmon-smoker-lance-forman-now-wants-government-compensation-for-brexit-related-costs/2-1-952195 being a Brexiter, incompetent and posh, he'll probably get compensated by joining the cabinet of Evil Tories.  Ooh that reminds me of a Brexit benefit: does happier fish count? Or not tangible enough? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
altus   540 #3120 Posted July 30, 2021 1 hour ago, West 77 said: You make a valid point. This thread is "The Consequences of Brexit (part  9)" which has been created by a forum moderator who naturally continued with the same title as the previous 8 Consequences of Brexit threads. My guess is the original thread which must have been called "The Consequences of Brexit"  was created by a Remainer, anti Brexit, anti British and anti democracy poster which explains the biased slant to the thread title. Perhaps this thread should now be closed and replaced with a new thread titled "Great Britain post Brexit" The thread titles have been discussed before. This isn't a "things that happened after brexit" thread, it's a "things that happened because of brexit" thread - hence the use of consequences in the title. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...