Why are leavers so angry

westernpromise

A nice little import tax on EU cars should focus their minds. Say £10k per Mercedes going up to £200k per Porsche.

Thrugelmir

westernpromise wrote: »

A nice little import tax on EU cars should focus their minds. Say £10k per Mercedes going up to £200k per Porsche.

What's the consequence for Rolls, Bentley, Jaguar, Mini, Toyota, Honda and Nissan?

gfplux

Private_Church wrote: »

Are they all totally opposed to anything we want?. Not sure you're right about that because the EU elite don't actually represent the citizens and I'm will to have a wager with you that when negotiations start the willy waving will stop and a deal will be made.

German car manufacturers will need the UK market even more when Trump implements his nationalistic policies to "make America Great again " (lol) where they put large tarrifs on German cars,French beverages,engines,cosmetics,chemicals etc so I'll wager German,French lobby groups will be putting in plenty of overtime in the months to come.

I think we all need to remember that those insular,protectionist little EU elitists may think they run the EU economy but they don't businesses do.:)

I think they are definitely NOT opposed to what Britain wants. Now six months after the referendum result the EU want exactly what Britain wants. Britain out of the EU.
Oh, and by the way BMW make a lot of cars in the USA. Perhaps you didn't know that!

A_Medium_Size_Jock

In interesting if brief piece from Reuters following a Win/Gallup International poll:

The poll showed 89 percent of voters in Greece thought their country was heading in the wrong direction. In France the figure was 82 percent, Italy 79 percent and Germany 62 percent.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-poll-idUKKBN14I002

Now I am not suggesting (and neither is the article) that this in any way implies a desire by majority to leave the EU; I fully accept that many want reform to come from within.
But surely this is at least an indicator of similar "anger" elsewhere within the EU?

Do not then attribute the antagonism to be a purely British (or even now American) phenomenon.
Elections soon in a number of EU countries will, I am certain, clearly demonstrate that this division in attitudes is much more widespread.

Thrugelmir

gfplux wrote: »

Oh, and by the way BMW make a lot of cars in the USA. Perhaps you didn't know that!

And the UK.

BobQ

Thrugelmir wrote: »

All of which has nothing to do with trade deals. More a clear indicator of the true profit that's made by global companies.

True, but my point is that the argument that the GER car industry's export dependence on UK ensures we can get a good deal may be correct in 2016, but that trade with the UK may be less important to GER if in 2019 if they are selling less profitablly in the UK market, because to maintain volumes they had to reduce profits to compensate for the falling pound.