Violence against MPs

why would anybody in their right mind vote for something they new deep down would make them poorer?

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Well, we are Europeans too, so why are we (I presume you mean the British), lucky?

The British are certainly a lot more wealthy since we joined the EU.

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a referendum was held in 1975 as to whether we should remain in it, with a 67% vote for remaining being the outcome.

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which was touted as a 1-off, never-again, that's it, referendum.

Sounds familiar?

comment by RB&W 'The Judge' (U21434)
posted 4 seconds ago
The British are certainly a lot more wealthy since we joined the EU.
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Funny that.

We help create the most sophisticated and interconnected trade bloc ever seen, to cater for our own economic needs.

But as some don't like some of the rules we helped design, chose to walk away from it completely.

comment by Roys Keane (U11635)
posted 12 hours, 38 minutes ago
comment by Winston (U16525)
posted 1 minute ago
A lack of tolerance - indicative with the whole Brexit debacle.

Watched a bit of Question Time last night, in Sunderland.

Turkeys voting for Christmas.
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Really

Even with the threat to the Nissan plant if it goes ahead
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Don’t listen to Femi...

Factories are being built at a phenomenal rate in Sunderland right now. In fact, just this month Nissan has invested £100m into the Sunderland plant, and shifted manufacture of the Nissan Juke to Sunderland.

If - and it’s a big if - Nissan decide to centralise production in Asia the it’ll be down to the fact that the car industry is in the toilet and Nissan has to do something drastic to return to growth.

People are being manipulated by individuals like Femi who are positioning pragmatic and necessary procurement policies as as Brexit related. No mention of the fact that Nissan is also considering closing factories in Italy and Spain, which’ll cost thousands of Europeans their jobs.

comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 13 hours, 43 minutes ago
comment by Roys Keane (U11635)
posted 12 hours, 38 minutes ago
comment by Winston (U16525)
posted 1 minute ago
A lack of tolerance - indicative with the whole Brexit debacle.

Watched a bit of Question Time last night, in Sunderland.

Turkeys voting for Christmas.
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Really

Even with the threat to the Nissan plant if it goes ahead
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Don’t listen to Femi...

Factories are being built at a phenomenal rate in Sunderland right now. In fact, just this month Nissan has invested £100m into the Sunderland plant, and shifted manufacture of the Nissan Juke to Sunderland.

If - and it’s a big if - Nissan decide to centralise production in Asia the it’ll be down to the fact that the car industry is in the toilet and Nissan has to do something drastic to return to growth.

People are being manipulated by individuals like Femi who are positioning pragmatic and necessary procurement policies as as Brexit related. No mention of the fact that Nissan is also considering closing factories in Italy and Spain, which’ll cost thousands of Europeans their jobs.
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Car manufacturing is sustained by way of Just in Time production. Which is made possible by membership of the EU CU and SM (free flow of goods and commodities without regulatory or customs checks).

Leaving these institutions renders JiT obsolete as the SMMT point out here:

https://www.smmt.co.uk/industry-topics/brexit/

There's also the EU/Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) which has now come into force:

"the agreement ensures that both Japan and the EU will fully align themselves to the same international standards on product safety and the protection of the environment, meaning that European cars will be subject to the same requirements in the EU and Japan, and will not need to be tested and certified again when exported to Japan. With Japan now committing itself to international car standards, EU exports of cars to Japan will become significantly simpler. "

This is one of the reasons why Japanese companies are also less likely to maintain a manufacturing base in Europe. 

https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/eu-japan-economic-partnership-agreement/index_en.htm

Post Brexit the UK will be outside of the EUs Common commercial policy and therefore no longer benefit from EU FTAS, EPAs etc.

Japanese manufacturing companies will therefore have less incentives to invest in the UK compared to EU counterparts.