Report: Honda to shut UK plant, imperiling 3,500 jobs

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Source: Associated Press

By JILL LAWLESS

LONDON (AP) — Honda will close a car factory in western England with the potential loss of 3,500 jobs, British media and a local lawmaker said Monday, in another blow to a British economy made jittery by Brexit.

Sky News said the Japanese carmaker is to announce Tuesday that the Swindon plant will close in 2022. Honda makes its popular Civic model at the factory, 70 miles (115 kms) west of London.

Local lawmaker Justin Tomlinson confirmed the news in a series of tweets. He said he had spoken to Honda, and the company said the decision “is based on global trends and not Brexit as all European market production will consolidate in Japan in 2021.”

He said no job losses at the plant were expected until 2021.


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Theresa May............................

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1. The auto industry is leaving

Earlier this month, Japan’s Nissan announced that it would not build a new SUV at its plant in Sunderland, England, as previously planned.

Nissan said it had made the decision “for business reasons,” but added that “the continued uncertainty around the U.K.’s future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future.”

Last week Ford said that if Britain left the EU without a deal on smooth future relations, it would be “catastrophic for the U.K. auto industry and Ford’s manufacturing operations in the country.”

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3. Airbus has also given them the Warning

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/27/airbus-siemens-brexit-warnings

"Airbus, which builds the wings for its planes in the UK, has conceded that the latest Brexit comments were scheduled to chime with the government’s campaign to get Theresa May’s deal through parliament before a crucial week. There was also a strong element of seething frustration from Tom Enders, the chief executive; enough that Brexiters could claim he displayed an irrational sense of doom.

However, Enders is not one to kid around. “Please don’t listen to the Brexiters’ madness, which asserts that because we have huge plants here we will not move and we will always be here. They are wrong,” he said.

The European aerospace group is one of the biggest manufacturers in the UK, where it employs more than 14,000 people. And one thing we know about successful industries is that size matters."

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2. Just what Putin wants

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4. AS I was watching O'Donnell tonight he showed a segment of Merkel

and Pence, and she, Merkle was slamming the traitors daughter father and the tariffs and German cars .
And the traitors daughter sat there with that stupid look on her face with the head phones, and she didn't want to mess up her hair, and when Merkle explained to her what it would do, (when Merkle was speaking) I thought of how Brexit and what the traitor is going to do to South Carolina and the BMW and German cars being made in that state and tariffs, ..........................are basically the same game plan with these people and what they are doing in England .....................amazing