Why Honda"s Swindon closure isn"t simply down to Brexit

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Written by Paul Horrell

The proposed shut-down of the Honda plant in Swindon will be a tragedy for the families of 3,500 workers. So too for the multiples of other people in the town and elsewhere that manufacture parts of the cars. It would be easy to blame it solely on Brexit. After all, car makers loathe economic and trade uncertainty. And we"ve got a lot of that right now. You have to hope that by 2021, the proposed shut-down date, things might be clearer. That date, by the way, signals the end of life for the current generation Civic.

Date written: 19 Feb 2019

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[an88fiero]

They've admitted it's to do with the change in manufacturing i.e. electric vehicles and nothing to do with Brexit!
They're closing Turkey plant too so how can this be to do with Brexit.

Sad day for staff at Honda (it'll be a tad more than 3500 when you take into account all the companies associated with Honda!)
Sad day from Swindon (yes I did just say that!)

 

[AmericanThunder]

new free-trade deal between Japan and the EU means that cars made in Japan now attract no tariffs coming into Europe

This winds me up. So while the U.K. is banned from negotiating new trade agreements during the Brexit phase, the EU has negotiated a deal that negatively impacts us. Along with the news yesterday that Spain’s navy was hassling ships moored off Gibraltar with their weapons uncovered and manned leaves me more convinced than ever that this situation is going to get bad.