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Qashqi's are really just Ford Focus size, but on stilts. They aren't true SUVs. Nissan arent moving the Qashqi back to Japan. Instead they have decided to build the new X trail in Japan (a Qashqi to all intents and purposes) in Japan instead of, as previously planned, in Sunderland.

So you're arguing that £60m wasnt enough to make it worthwhile investing in the UK given the scale of the Brexit problems?

It’s hyperbole to make a point. So many of our services are utterly dependent on EU labour doing jobs Brits don’t want to. How you going to resolve that ?

Ha just found out 96% of the vets employed by the Food Standards Agency are from EU countries. Kick em all out and poison ourselves I say. We have the right to die!

Ukrainians dont need visas either - another thing we'll soon have in common with them

You forgot the Institute of Directors report showing nearly one third of companies have either already triggered Brexit plans to relocate or are planning to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/01/one-three-uk-firms-activate-plans-move-operations-abroad-no-deal-brexit-iod-survey

I don't disagree about the 'permanent' customs union. It can be permanent until a government decides to ditch it, unlike the backstop. Re the single market it will be dressed up differently but we will effectively be a member albeit in different clothes. What May will do is adopt restrictions on movement currently allowed within the single market rules and present them as some great victory. It will be some or all of: 1. Tighter control of EU migration into the UK by applying current EU rules, which state that migrants must prove that they are either working, actively seeking work or self-sufficient. Otherwise, they can be removed after three months. Other EU countries operate a worker registration system to implement this. The UK would require EU migrants to register with their local authority. Those without jobs will be required to return to their country of origin. 2. Proper enforcement of current migration rules by giving more resources to border control and stricter labour market controls to address unscrupulous employers using illegal labour practices to encourage people-trafficking and illegal immigration. 3. Recruitment agencies will be banned from hiring directly from abroad and new jobs first be offered to local unemployed people. 4. A national identity system using new technology to identify illegal migration. 5. Ensure that companies bringing in workers from abroad pay at the local rate. An “emergency brake” system applied in case of high inflows. 6. New funds to help communities manage the impact of rapid population change.

Far from hitting the buffers the final deal will be much closer to Norway+ than your 'Leave on WTO terms'

Liam Fox is saying big countries can bully small ones in trade and the UK will face an unequal struggle. Hm, bummer. If only we could be in some big powerful block that can stand up to the US.

Honestly Wes, you're the epitome of a sad sap who sees only what he wants to. The Tories promised to leave the single market and the customs union and promised to negotiate full access to the single market and join a customs union - so pretty much a blank cheque to do what they like. Talking of Tory manifesto promises how about the one on immigration from outside the UK and bringing it down to under 100,000? Since then its gone up from 170,000 to 270,000.

Its going to be customs union and single market. Its just an absolute waste how much damage has been done getting there. Britain has destroyed its reputation as a good reliable place to do business and, to misquote JRM, we are going to be feeling the effects for 50 years.

You need people like him and Farage in Parliament. You wouldn't want either anywhere near decision making tho.

That’s only public debt. Public and private debt combined is 303% in Italy and 314% in Britain.

You’re such a dumb ****er yet again you aren’t able to even understand the articles you link supposedly in support of your case. The money banked in the EU used to be managed in London , now it will be managed in Dublin. That’s 150 well paid investment manager and analyst jobs lost from London. Directly and solely due to Brexit.

Truth is though this country will be better off when the war / post war false nostalgia brexit generation are gone. Trying to turn a modern globalised economy back to a time which no longer exists is the triumph of emotion over cognition.

I agree it probably won’t happen except by accident but you can’t underestimate the huge and permanent damage this three year long pantomime has done to the UK’s reputation as a reliable steady and predictable place for businesses to base themselves. My organisation is just the latest to decide to relocate to Amsterdam. No company with horizons broader than little ol England is going to base themselves in a provincial backwater which can offer absolutely no guidance about what it’s access to markets and labour will be like .

At the moment both ERG Tories and the remain / soft Tory wing think they will get what they want. The ERG think it means facing down the EU and the soft wing think it means a customs union. One is going to be very disappointed. So really its just more of the same, a bit more can kicking and the inevitable request for an A50 extension. .

Those are actually fair points ? Individually they aren’t conclusive and findings vary a bit depending o the exact question asked. But put together offer a very high level of confidence. The swing isn’t massive but it’s enough given the referendum margin of victory was so small. There is now a clear and consistent (albeit still relatively small) majority for remain

Still haven't got it Les. Its not like walking away from one Ford car dealer and going to another. There is only place you can negotiate a deal for constant state access covering 73% of our exports.

Imagine the panic of shareholders who tried to sell up years ago but couldn’t. They’re now stuck in a failing company and having to stump up more cash to bail it out. Still at least Deutsche is okay.

like Trump

Same old same old Wes. Nasty EU intelligence services lying about risk of civil unrest and fragmentation in the UK. Meanwhile ministers are rehearsing implementation of martial law in the event of, um, civil unrest. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6636785/Britain-impose-MARTIAL-LAW-avoid-chaos-streets-no-deal-Brexit.html

You must know quite a bit about zombie companies

You could probably sell it for a decent price in Uruguay tbf