Honda Brexting

Because of the new EU Japan deal

They are shutting the plant in Turkey too.

Sorry ... Bridgeit. Not Bridgit. Oops!

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

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

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.

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.

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

Urmston

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

‘Jinx’ as the GC say lemongrove!

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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

Or even Rehhehemainers ?

Oh dear Lemongrove, try Brexit Tears ?

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.

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.

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.

Our great EU friends negotiated a wonderful deal with Japan. Knowing the UK had a monopoly on Japanese vehicle manufacturing, they decided a free trade deal was the way to go. . Of course the eventual outcome would be manufacturing would head back to their home market if tariffs bottomed out to zero. Had Germany or France had those production facilities there is no way in hell the deal would have been struck.

I have never pretended everything is marvellous, neither am I of the opinion that every negative story is Brexit related.

This is interesting. Where is the Honda factory in Turkey? There's no mention of it on Honda's website:

global.honda/about/group/category.html?category=manufacturing-facilities