Honda Brexting

The vote was not taken based on facts but the loss of 3,000 jobs is now a fact, this has to be the most irresponsible self inflicted situation in modern times.

crystal If there are downturns in business because of Brexit ( when it happens) you can say so, at the moment, with the Honda plant, it isn’t the case.

Brid !! Do some googling on Honda and the car business in Japan, the industry is slowing down.
Not everything has to do with Brexit.....honestly sometimes I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the posts on GN.

Oh dear Lemongrove, try Brexit Tears ?

Or even Rehhehemainers ?

Just do that Googling Brid and we can have a laugh together.

I live near Swindon, although I do not know it well, but I do know how it was devastated economically by the loss of the railway workshops, and to see this happening again with the departure of |Honda is heart breaking.

I am not sure that any discussion we may have here will decide the issue one way or the other. Car companies world wide are cutting back, whether it is Nissan at Sunderland or Honda at Swindon, but that these cutbacks have coincided with Brexit, certainly made it an ideal opportunity for the companies to declare cutbacks and I cannot say I blame them.

But at the end of the day, what does it matter what the cause was. It is the result that we should be concerned about.

OK. I've got the Turkey factory now. Honda must have forgotten they had it. Found it on Wikipedia. It makes the 4 door Civic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Honda_assembly_plants

Au contraire Monica the cause is the purpose of this thread, using Brexit as a convenient hook to hang fabrications on.
It would be helpful if all could do a bit of research about the car industry at the moment, especially pertaining to Japan.

On this forum though MOnica it does seem to very much matter about the cause! (Although I’m sure whatever that is, we all feel for the effect as one would).

Yes exactly Monica ,which is why I started this thread.

‘Jinx’ as the GC say lemongrove!

I think your first sentence on your thread wasn’t necessary in that case Bridgit

Urmston

On reflection you are correct, Urmstongran,
I should have said , sadly & cruelly this is the end of the stability & the livelihoods of 3000 workers.

I just do not think there is anyway we can be sure what the cause is. Everyone can quote it to support their own cause - and where does that get us? There are still, possible as many as 10,000 being lost in Swindon and that is catastrophic.

MaizieD
Your a great twitter user. Look at #Honda. Or the Swindon Adveriser. Bloomberg.
I think that's enough to be going on with, don't you.

Monica....it’s the reality of the motor trade globally, nothing to do with ‘supporting own causes’.

Thank you Bridgit for acknowledging that.
It’s very nice of you to agree actually and makes you a bigger person in my eyes. ?

Sorry ... Bridgeit. Not Bridgit. Oops!

They are shutting the plant in Turkey too.

Because of the new EU Japan deal

I think it was already mentioned upthread - sorry - but I just heard that on the local news and posted it before I read the rest of the thread.

The UK were part of the EU -Japan trade deal. It has taken years. They don’t need to be in the EU , and certainly not the U.K., to trade freely within the EU.
All those “Brexit has no negative impact on the economy “ believers, obviously know more about business than the bosses of those businesses.

It must be so hard for the Honda workers, I would think there are whole families working there, not much chance of other employment in the area for such a large number of people. Even if Brexit is not the cause of this closure it must add to their concerns.