Let's Get Political!

[jayohaitchenn]

Out of interest, can one of you clever know it alls on here explain how the border into Switzerland works? Is it an open border to France and Germany etc? What with it being surrounded by EU countries and not in the EU itself?

I know its not a similar comparison, but I'm curious about it.

[Reg Smeeton]

Out of interest, can one of you clever know it alls on here explain how the border into Switzerland works? Is it an open border to France and Germany etc? What with it being surrounded by EU countries and not in the EU itself?

I know its not a similar comparison, but I'm curious about it.

Switzerland is also in Schengen, but there are often queues at the border crossing points to check trucks etc. Of course when you've a population about the same size as London, that is less of a problem as fewer trucks are trying to get in... further domestic Swiss food production is about 60% of their needs, whereas in the UK its approx 50%.

[Ardiles]

It is a strange one.  Some of the suburbs of Geneva are in France, with the border running through the middle of a number of residential areas.  When we drove through one of the border crossings there a few summers ago, it all seemed very low key.  A bored Douanier waved us through from France in to Switzerland without looking up from his screen...although, to be fair, I wasn't driving a truck.

[Ardiles]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/03/nissan-confirms-new-x-trail-will-not-be-built-in-sunderland

Brexit voting Sunderland gets what it voted for.  Darwin Award in the post.

I shudder to think of the effect on the Swindon economy if Honda takes a similar view when the next significant investment decisions are taken.

[chalkies_shorts]

I'm sure there will be some who will be knocking one out over this news.

[Ardiles]

There will be many more weeping at the senseless stupidity of it.

[pauld]

I'm sure there will be some who will be knocking one out over this news.

Very much doubt it. Other than possibly Japanese car workers

[chalkies_shorts]

There will be many more weeping at the senseless stupidity of it.

There are quite a few who don't see it as senseless stupidity. In fact there are more who don't see it as such than do.

[Bogus Dave]

What do these people who are losing their jobs, with little immediate opportunity for like-for-like work to emerge, gain?

[Ardiles]

There are quite a few who don't see it as senseless stupidity. In fact there are more who don't see it as such than do.

If the Nissan news is the beginning of a trend/pattern, my guess is that they soon will.  Positions are so entrenched, I know.  (I'm not immune.)  But facts/evidence on the ground will tell in the end.

[Reg Smeeton]

What do these people who are losing their jobs, with little immediate opportunity for like-for-like work to emerge, gain?

Many Brexiteers think that when the foreign owners move their operations out post Brexit, that nice Brits like Mr Dyson, Mr Branson or Mr Ashley will be able to set up car building plants, for patriots to buy the products, and so good will they be that the rest of the world will want them too.

[Sir red ken]

Many Brexiteers think that when the foreign owners move their operations out post Brexit, that nice Brits like Mr Dyson, Mr Branson or Mr Ashley will be able to set up car building plants, for patriots to buy the products, and so good will they be that the rest of the world will want them too.

Mr Branson is a remainer who wants us to live in the eu so long as he doesn't have to.
He doesn't make cars which is a blessing.

[suttonred]

Many Brexiteers think that when the foreign owners move their operations out post Brexit, that nice Brits like Mr Dyson, Mr Branson or Mr Ashley will be able to set up car building plants, for patriots to buy the products, and so good will they be that the rest of the world will want them too.

Err like used to happen? Be a nice shiny plant for someone to make Sunbeams again.

[Saxondale]

Do you remember hen the eastern bloc only had cars built in their own countries.  Lada's that sort of thing.

Is that where we're heading?  A nation of Austin Maestros?

[Bob's Orange]

Do you remember hen the eastern bloc only had cars built in their own countries.  Lada's that sort of thing.

Is that where we're heading?  A nation of Austin Maestros?

Skoda used to be a laughing stock and now their cars are extremely popular all around Europe.

Perhaps that’s the route of the well loved Maestro. I’m sure SRK will be proudly driving his Maxi in a town near you soon. The St George Cross proudly waved out the passenger side window and his copy of the Daily Express on the passenger seat.