BREXIT: Planning for No Deal.

Grandad43
Here's your answer.

Tough.

It happens all the time. Robots taking over. More reliable than people and they don't strike, don't sue for harassment, don't take breaks, don't want double pay for working on Sunday...blah blah.

We can't be given 'proper facts' as nobody knows what the 'facts' are.
The fact is that without the true facts, a factual account of the facts by someone who has factored in those facts submitted by Scottish factors plus the factual accounts of facts printed in the DM, we will be no nearer knowing those true facts...and that's a fact.

SVP of Airbus

Maybe check what the senior Vice President said in her Sky interview actually said!!

Philip Hammond risked the ire of Tory Brexiteers this afternoon by declaring – from Davos – that a no-deal Brexit would be a 'betrayal of the promises that were made' during the 2016 referendum campaign. The Chancellor's comments come after Business Minister Richard Harrington went off script to welcome a warning from Airbus about the risk to UK manufacturing jobs in the event of no deal. While a number of Leave MPs have gone on the offensive over the comments, in truth it is a distraction as they currently have bigger fish to fry. Next Tuesday the prospect of no deal could be taken off the table altogether when MPs vote on a series of amendments to May's Brexit plan.

I asked those on this forum who support Brexit earlier on in this thread, what they say to those who now find their employment severely threatened by the UK leaving the EU on a "no deal" exit.

Not one forum member has stated anything in the above, even when every day now we witness company after company relocating from Britain to other countries or warning that there will be a need to do so.

I believe the above demonstrates the complete uncaring selfish attitude of those that support Brexit, with many on this forum being retired armchair risk takers. Those people seem to have a sole wish to wave the Union Jack and sing "Rule Britania" on March the twenty-ninth without a single thought for how many are losing their jobs and through that their homes and family well being.

Disgusting.

Brexit is a reminder that two connected things need to happen in order for a political compromise to stick. First, partisan leaders must decide that it is better than any other achievable outcome. Second, the public must also converge to give it their backing. One movement towards the treaty table without the other doesn’t cut it.

The Northern Ireland peace process was a classic example of this dual process. It took many years before mutually antagonistic political leaders decided that a peace deal was better than an unwinnable war. But it took even longer for the two communities in Northern Ireland to begin to make the same move. The peace process only worked because the political deal was followed by referendums that endorsed it.

May should close parliament if necessary to stop bill blocking no deal Brexit, says Rees-Mogg – as it happened. Yet in comparison with Brexit it now looks relatively straightforward. This is partly because almost all the thinking about how to settle the Brexit argument focuses on Westminster. Seven days ago, in the wake of Theresa May’s drubbing over her deal, I wrote that it was now time for her to compromise on Brexit. I still think that’s true. But it skates over the question of whether the British people would see such a move as acceptable, and what might follow if they did not.

Finding a compromise is formidably difficult, even in Westminster. The reasons are familiar. The two main leaders are at odds with their own parties. Parliament’s law-making procedures make it hard to intervene. The tribalism of politics makes cooperation fragile. There may be a majority against no deal, but there isn’t a majority – yet – in favour of anything.

Parliament is getting heat for this failure, and the chorus is likely to grow louder next week. Yet broader opinion is divided too. There is almost no consensus among voters about what should happen now. Though MPs are often lambasted for being out of touch, the uncertainties at Westminster reflect those of the public.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/23/compromise-brexit-good-friday-agreement-britain

But will they take any notice varian. I think it matters to the local MP!

Britain is set to lose tens of millions of pounds in tax revenues after Sir James Dyson, one of the country’s most prominent Brexit supporters, announced plans to relocate the headquarters of his company to Singapore.

The business said that Asia was now the main focus of its activities and that it should be regarded as a “global technology company”.

The move is likely to cost the government up to £60 million a year in lost corporation tax revenues.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brexit-backer-sir-james-dyson-makes-global-switch-to-singapore-fldzsbxvc?utm_source=Unica&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=james_RA_daily_fixed_timing

Airbus, one of Britain's largest employers, has today given a very stark warning on the companies future operations in Britain in the event of a "no deal" Brexit. Below is an extract of just what the Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders has stated today (24/01/18).

Extract to an article in the Swindon Advertiser. Begins here.:-
The head of Airbus has torn into the Government's handling of Brexit, branding it a "disgrace" and warning that the company could pull out of the UK if its ability to compete on the global stage is harmed by a no-deal departure.

Tom Enders, chief executive of the aerospace giant, said a no-deal Brexit could force Airbus, which employs more than 14,000 people in the UK with around 110,000 more jobs connected in supply chains, to make "potentially very harmful decisions" about its UK operations

Urging Britons not to listen to "Brexiteers' madness" that the company was too established in the UK to leave, the business leader warned there are "plenty of countries" that would love to build its plane parts.

"In a global economy, the UK no longer has the capability to go it alone. Major aerospace projects are multinational affairs," Mr Enders said in a video message.

"It is a disgrace that, more than two years after the result of the 2016 referendum, businesses are still unable to plan appropriately for the future.
The article ends here.

Just how much more evidence do those who think that Britain will be "just fine" in a " no deal" brexit have to witness before they realise that such an event will be devastating for manufacturing, the higher service industries and many of the profession. Each day now we hear of companies relocating away from the UK and still the avid Brexiteers refuse to believe what is happening in front of their eyes,

Absolutely ridiculous.

I am working at present, so probably will not be able to post further until much later today.

Link to above article:- www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17381951.national-airbus-chief-warns-aerospace-giant-could-quit-uk-amid-brexit-disgrace/

Sony will move its European headquarters from the UK to the Netherlands to avoid disruptions caused by Brexit.

The company said the move would help it avoid customs issues tied to Britain's exit from the EU.

Despite the move, Sony won't shift personnel and operations from the existing UK operations.

It is the latest Japanese company to flag a move to the continent in response to Brexit.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46968720

They say now that they won't shift personnel and operations, but that could change. What they are probably shifting is tax, which is presently paid in the UK.

Meanwhile, P and O now flying the Cypriot flag on their cross channel ferries.
Bentley are warning of job losses if there is a no deal
Dyson moving to Singapore.
I thought Brexit was supposed to be good for Britain? ( sarcasm emoji)

You said that, not I.

You mean laugh at the mayhem of people losing their jobs etc. Shameful comment....

...and I'd invest in a good pair of ear plugs if I were you. ???

Oh yes indeed. I know all about copy and paste but, not being lazy, prefer not to use other people's words.

Takes a couple of minutes with a search engine, and have you heard of 'copy & paste', GG54? No bother at all.

And he who laughs last laughs loudest. It's not over yet...

I have to laugh at all this speculation, the hours spent typing and researching suitable 'verifiable' links.
None of it will affect the outcome. Best to sit back and enjoy the mayhem while TM cuts all ties with ?+?

I don't think that Gernmany's projection is quite so uncertain.

There is substantial uncertainty around the baseline projection of about 1.5 percent growth in the United Kingdom in 2019-20. The unchanged projection relative to the October 2018 WEO reflects the offsetting negative effect of prolonged uncertainty about the Brexit outcome and the positive impact from fiscal stimulus announced in the 2019 budget. This baseline projection assumes that a Brexit deal is reached in 2019 and that the UK transitions gradually to the new regime. However, as of mid-January, the shape that Brexit will ultimately take remains highly uncertain.

www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2019/01/11/weo-update-january-2019

I think that means that the IMF doesn't really know how to project UK growth 2019.

Yes, it's the same with Jacob Rees Mogg telling us how wonderful Britain will do with a "no deal" leave outside the EU.

However, he opens up an asset management office for his company in Ireland and then advises his all his investment clients with British assets to move their financial investments to there.

Of course, that advise has nothing to do with Brexit.

He is a brexit supporter has told us this move has nothing to do with brexit.

So Dyson is now moving his head office to Singapore. Handy as Singapore has a trade deal with the EU.

GrannyGravy13.

Cannot post links I am on iPhone and it doesn’t want to play I am afraid.

Today in the business section of the Irish Times.
Among major economies, the deepest revision was for Germany, which the imf now sees expanding 1.3% this year
If my maths are correct that makes germanys forecast lower than ours.