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Honda to close UK car plant in 2022, risking 3,500 jobs

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  • mayonnaise
    mayonnaise Posts: 3,690 Forumite
    Already posted in the Brexit thread, where it belongs.

    Mods, please merge.
    Don't blame me, I voted Remain.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    Brexit carnage continues.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • Arklight
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    No no, not Brexit. Nothing to see here...
  • J_Nostin
    J_Nostin Posts: 93 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Brexit carnage continues.
    Of course, Brexit would be why Honda are closing their factory in Turkey as well then. :doh:


    Totally unexpected (not). After a Japan/EU trade deal signed where tariffs are removed on cars -> close EU factories & manufacture in Japan instead, safeguarding Japanese jobs as a global revolution in transport dawns with the rise and rise of alternative power for cars.

    I would be surprised if this is the last and not only in the UK, since China already makes about a third of all cars globally every year and are already starting imports of cheap electric vehicles into the USA & parts of Europe. Both Musk and Dyson have the right ideas; other major manufacturers will soon pay the price as well as trying to play catch-up.

    https://qz.com/1541380/the-cheapest-chinese-electric-cars-are-coming-to-the-us-and-europe/
  • Thrugelmir
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    Parts production already moved to Thailand and Malaysia. Planning has been going on for some time.
  • Arklight
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Parts production already moved to Thailand and Malaysia. Planning has been going on for some time.

    Yes, at least... two years.
  • BobQ
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    mayonnaise wrote: »
    Already posted in the Brexit thread, where it belongs.

    Mods, please merge.

    Not sure why you think this since the local Tory MP is assuring the world that is unconnected with Brexit :D
    Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
  • unforeseen
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    This closure has been on the cards long before Brexit reared its ugly head. There was talk about 5 years ago about shutting that plant down.
  • Lungboy
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    Let's see what happens in Ghent.
  • Carl31
    Carl31 Posts: 2,616 Forumite
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    lol @ Brexit comments

    Any company knowingly taking such actions now without knowing the outcome of the negotiations would have done so anyway. Its not closing for 2/3 years, they couldnt possibly know where their business would be at that point unless something else drove their decision
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