If we vote for Brexit what happens

setmefree2

London Taxi Company opens £300m Coventry plant for electric cabs

First new UK car plant for more than a decade, creating 1,000 jobs, comes amid industry uncertainty over Brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/22/london-taxi-company-coventry-electric-cabs-jobs-brexit

The London Taxi Company (LTC), maker of the iconic London black cab, is officially opening a plant that will make electric taxis. The factory is being funded with £300m of investment from LTC’s owner, Chinese company Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, as well as a £16.1m grant from the government through the regional growth fund.
Greg Clark, the business secretary, said the new facility, which will also house research and development, demonstrates that the UK is a “world leader in the development of new automotive technologies”.


Clark has pledged to put support for the development of electric vehicles at the heart of the government’s industrial strategy.

setmefree2

China asks WTO to weigh in on EU anti-dumping measures

China on Tuesday asked the World Trade Organization to create an expert panel to examine the so-called "surrogate country" approach used by the European Union to calculate anti-dumping measures applied to Chinese exports.
When China joined the WTO in 2001, it was written into the terms of the deal that member states could treat it as a non-market economy for 15 years.
The deadline passed late last year, but the EU has nevertheless opted to preserve tough rules that protect it from cheap Chinese products flooding its markets.
China on Tuesday asked the WTO to establish a panel to rule on its demand that the EU stop using a "surrogate country" system -- judging the price of Chinese goods against a third country's -- to determine whether China is selling its products below market prices.
"China is disappointed that it needs to seek action by the DSB (the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body) in order for the European Union to remedy the obvious and egregious WTO-inconsistency of its measures," China's representative to the global trade body said Tuesday.
Beijing has said previously that the refusal to grant China market economy status is an example of "covert protectionism" and "double standard" by the West.
The request to the WTO came after China last December filed initial disputes against the EU and the United States over the issue, which are being handled separately in the WTO system.
After the parties failed to reach an agreement during WTO-led consultations, the door was left open for China to ask the WTO to create a panel of experts to review the case.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/china-asks-wto-weigh-eu-152034862.html

setmefree2

Think tanks reject claims Brexit vote was driven by white working classes

ttps://business-reporter.co.uk/2017/03/21/think-tanks-reject-claims-brexit-vote-driven-white-working-classes/

A_Medium_Size_Jock

setmefree2 wrote: »

https://business-reporter.co.uk/2017/03/21/think-tanks-reject-claims-brexit-vote-driven-white-working-classes/

Oh dear, that will upset some pro-remain posters here.
Shame.

some 59% of the middle-class overall voted to quit the EU compared with 24% of the working class

A_Medium_Size_Jock

Meanwhile, are EU/Turkey relations reaching the point where the migration issue will again prove problematic for the EU?

By hosting about 3 million refugees -- the most of any nation -- and halting their migration to Europe, Turkey has saved the EU from a “racist” backlash that threatens the bloc’s democratic character, Omer Celik said in an interview on Tuesday in Ankara. Describing the deal as one-sided, he said Turkey is under no obligation to continue implementing it, adding that his country’s commitment to seeking EU membership wasn’t unconditional.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-22/world-s-largest-refugee-host-says-deal-with-eu-nearing-collapse

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to review relations with the "fascist and cruel" European Union, amid a growing row with EU countries.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39339770

A_Medium_Size_Jock

With Italian concern over increasing migration via the Mediterranean where there has been a recent sharp rise in attempted crossings, is the EU seeing another doomed attempt to reduce migration - this time by trying an agreement with Libya?

Libya's UN-backed unity government has requested 800 million euros ($860 million) worth of equipment to help patrol its coast and territorial waters, including radars, boats, helicopters and all-terrain vehicles, according to Italy's Corriere della Sera daily.

https://www.thelocal.it/20170320/mediterranean-interior-ministers-meet-to-discuss-curbing-oversea-migration

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170318-italy-panics-as-north-africa-migrants-surge/

Conrad

setmefree2 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/transition-period-on-trade-deals-is-vital-in-brexit-35554280.html

Yet more evidence that commercial realties will trump Brussels machinations.


Remainers actually think some old duffers in Brussels are going to be allowed to effectively cause huge harm to French farmers, Spanish fishermen and German car workers.


Cloud cuckoo


Why do Remainers not understand this?

StevieJ

setmefree2 wrote: »

ttps://business-reporter.co.uk/2017/03/21/think-tanks-reject-claims-brexit-vote-driven-white-working-classes/

A quick read of that makes little sense

Although white voters were likelier to back Leave in the 2016 referendum if they were poor and Remain if they were rich, some 59% of the middle-class overall voted to quit the EU compared with 24% of the working class, said the report.

Conrad

A_Medium_Size_Jock wrote: »

Meanwhile, are EU/Turkey relations reaching the point where the migration issue will again prove problematic for the EU?

Migrant landings – Italy likely to explode this year


Cant do link, PC keep ceasing up on the Breitbart

StevieJ

Conrad wrote: »

Yet more evidence that commercial realties will trump Brussels machinations.


Remainers actually think some old duffers in Brussels are going to be allowed to effectively cause huge harm to French farmers, Spanish fishermen and German car workers.


Cloud cuckoo


Why do Remainers not understand this?

Yes OK.

EU chiefs have warned airlines including easyJet and Ryanair that they will need to relocate their headquarters or sell off shares to European nationals if they want to continue flying routes within continental Europe after Brexit.

.https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/uk-based-airlines-told-move-093308600.html