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Pride of Dover becomes pride of Paphos

39 replies

somewhereovertherain · 22/01/2019 22:24

So P&O are to reflag their ships in Cyprus, Sony moves its European HQ to Amsterdam. Brexitier Dyson moves his HQ to Singapore. Pets at Home are stockpiling cat food, Bentley are stockpiling parts. What’s next for the clusterfuck that’s Brexit?

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Mistigri · 22/01/2019 22:43

It's the will of the people apparently.

Quietrebel · 23/01/2019 00:10

I read Pride of Pathos at first!

bellinisurge · 23/01/2019 06:17

Me too, @Quietrebel and I've had a night's sleep.
Read the news this morning. How long before someone trots on to call them wreckers/Remainer stooges? Maybe we should add that to the Brexit bingo card?

blackcat001 · 23/01/2019 06:32

And Sony moving its European HQ from UK to Netherlands, Panasonic made decision to move to Netherlands last year and Dyson to Singapore (has trade deal with EU).

Have a look at this article for more joyous brexit news... Sad

www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/22/no-deal-brexit-panic-grips-major-uk-firms

BlueWonder · 23/01/2019 06:53

This will becime a stampede. Even if May gets hardcore Brexiteers and DUP and enough others onside to pass her 'deal', all that does is start years of further trade deal negotiations without much leverage and any guaranteed outcomes. Britain will lose many more businesses to Europe and further afield in the meantime. There will be less and less need for other countries to enter trade deals with us as most of our big players will be operating elsewhere.

Only way to stop the haemorrhage is to revoke Article 50.

Buteo · 23/01/2019 07:12

So The Spirit of Britain is moving to Cyprus because it’s more advantageous to be in the EU?

Seems rather apt.

somewhereovertherain · 23/01/2019 07:33

It was also interesting listening to the boss of Hiscocks insurance they’ve already spent £15 million and opened an office in Luxembourg to ensure their access to the free market.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 23/01/2019 09:22

How much has this cost us already?

Weezol · 23/01/2019 09:24

I thought this was going to be about Josh Widdecombe then remembered that he's the pride of Dartmoor.

Clavinova · 23/01/2019 10:13

Pets at Home say they are considering boosting stockpiles in the case of a 'no-deal' Brexit. 17% of their products come from outside of the UK.

news.sky.com/story/pets-at-home-to-stockpile-up-to-8m-of-products-in-case-of-hard-brexit-11614312

Sony said the merger was to "continue business as usual without disruption" and would not result in job losses
Around 20 members of staff at Panasonic will be affected.

www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3069630/sony-brexit-hq

There is some good news as well;

Jan 2019: The UK and London continue to dominate the European tech investment landscape.
Latest figures reveal Britain’s tech sector attracted more venture capital investment and tech IPOs than any other European hub in 2018;
www.uktech.news/featured/london-uk-top-european-tech-investment-tables-20190109

Dec 2018 British firms on track to score World Cup deals worth £1.5 billion. (Qatar 2022)

www.gov.uk/government/news/british-firms-on-track-to-score-world-cup-deals-worth-15-billion

Dec 2018 Pharma giant UCB is to invest around £1 billion in the UK as part of a second life sciences sector deal with the UK government, with industry names such as Roche and IQVIA also committing to projects

pharmaphorum.com/news/ucb-roche-and-iqvia-take-lead-in-uk-life-sciences-investment/

Chanel Picks London over New York and Paris as base for Global Team
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-15/chanel-ditches-new-york-city-digs-for-new-london-global-hub

Goldman Sachs commits to UK despite Brexit fears with £1.2bn deal
news.sky.com/story/goldman-sachs-commits-to-uk-despite-brexit-fears-with-12bn-deal-11479456

bellinisurge · 23/01/2019 10:29

Hooray! It's all worth it! No, wait ....

indistinct · 23/01/2019 10:46

@Clavinova
Agree that there is some good economic news as well as bad. However, over-whelming trend is against the UK in comparison to it's peer group. UK went from fastest growing G7 economy in 2016 to slowest in 2017 and now at 6th in 2018 (see fullfact.org real-terms GDP trends information). The last time we were doing this poorly in comparison to our G7 peers was in 2008/9 and 2010 during the financial crash and imposition of austerity measures periods.

JSmitty · 23/01/2019 10:53

What's next?

Santander Bank (the clue is in the name) close 140 branches.

"We want the foreigners out!"

...be careful what you wish for.

Tippexy · 23/01/2019 10:56

“Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant.
Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds.
Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.
British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.
Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan.
Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone to Poland with EU grant, once employed 1,200.
M&S manufacturing gone to far east with EU loan.
Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along with the patents all with with EU grants.
Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant.
Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant.
Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant.
Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding.
Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing.
ICI integration into Holland’s AkzoNobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs
Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80 million a year, using an EU loan for the purchase.
JDS Uniphase run by two Dutch men, bought up companies in the UK with £20 million in EU 'regeneration' grants, created a pollution nightmare and just closed it all down leaving 1,200 out of work and an environmental clean-up paid for by the UK tax-payer. They also raided the pension fund and drained it dry.
UK airports are owned by a Spanish company.
Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company.
Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies.
The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built by French company EDF, part owned by the French government, using cheap Chinese steel that has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations. Now EDF say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online.
Swindon was once our producer of rail locomotives and rolling stock. Not any more, it's Bombardier in Derby and due to their losses in the aviation market, that could see the end of the British railways manufacturing altogether even though Bombardier had EU grants to keep Derby going which they diverted to their loss-making aviation side in Canada.
39% of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, many of them in the EU
The Mini cars that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria. His campaign bus was made in Germany even though we have Plaxton, Optare, Bluebird, Dennis etc., in the UK. The bicycle for the Greens was made in the far east, not by Raleigh UK but then they are probably going to move to the Netherlands too as they have said recently.

Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn't paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK. Name me one major technology company still running in the UK, the work just dried up as they were sold off to companies from France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, etc., and now we don't even teach electronic technology for technicians any more, due to EU regulations.

I haven't detailed our non-existent fishing industry the EU paid to destroy, nor the farmers being paid NOT to produce food they could sell for more than they get paid to do nothing, don't even go there.
I haven't mentioned what it costs us to be asset-stripped like this, nor have I mentioned immigration, nor the risk to our security if control of our armed forces is passed to Brussels or Germany.”

Mistigri · 23/01/2019 10:57

There is no news so bad that someone won't try to find a silver lining.

Wind forward to 1st April, no deal has happened and lorries are backing up throughout Kent, and Clavinova will still be here telling us what jolly good news this.

GrammarTeacher · 23/01/2019 10:57

The EU hasn't destroyed fishing! Fishing has managed that itself. Leaving the EU won't magic fish into the sea!

GrammarTeacher · 23/01/2019 10:58

We had a veto on creation of EU army. We could already control immigration. The government chose not to.

Mistigri · 23/01/2019 11:02

5 seconds (literally) on google showed me that tippexy's post is a copy paste of someone else's opinions, possibly from here: janetteheffernan.blogspot.com/2016/06/brexit-list-of-uk-companies-no-longer.html.

Or from identical posts have appeared on numerous other Internet forums.

Note to lazy people: if you try to pass other people's work off as your own, and you leave the typos in, it makes it very easy to spot what you are doing.

Moussemoose · 23/01/2019 11:03

Apparently the post by @Tippexy is doing the rounds on social media.

Posters on other threads have deconstructed most of the claims.

1tisILeClerc · 23/01/2019 11:04

{Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn't paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK.}

As I have just commented on this post in AIBU, It is a form of Karma from the asset stripping by the UK of it's 'Empire' combined with totally incompetent government and management since WW2.

Tippexy · 23/01/2019 11:07

That’s the reason it’s in speech marks Hmm

Mistigri · 23/01/2019 11:07

Posters on other threads have deconstructed most of the claims.

It's worth saying that anyone who copy-pastes from another site, doesn't credit the source and is too lazy to even bother to remove the typos, probably doesn't have any opinions worth bothering to deconstruct.

Mistigri · 23/01/2019 11:08

That’s the reason it’s in speech marks

The speech marks are there because they are also there on the page you copied it from, which you didn't credit.

Moussemoose · 23/01/2019 11:15

And again Tippexy leave supporters do not help themselves.

Is this the research that you did that convinced you a leave vote was a good idea?

Buteo · 23/01/2019 11:29

Pets at Home say they are considering boosting stockpiles in the case of a 'no-deal' Brexit.

Not quite what the CEO said on the R4 Today programme yesterday morning - they are increasing stock by £8 million worth of food and accessories to mitigate the impact of a hard Brexit..