Thursday, January 24, 2019

Same old threats from Remainers. You think they would at least update the script.

So Airbus once again threatens to stop dealing with the UK after we leave the EU.    Like they have done before.

But, hang on a minute, is this the same Airbus that has a factory in the USA and since 1990, has spent some $200 billion dollars with hundreds of U.S. suppliers – $48 billion in the last three years alone.    I don’t recall the USA being in the EU.   Airbus opened its first commercial aircraft production site in the United States in 2015.  The U.S. Manufacturing Facility, in Mobile, Alabama, produces A319s, A320s and A321s.   

Not only that, Airbus has identified global sourcing as one of its long-term objectives and aims to source 40% outside Western Europe and the U.S. by 2020.   So sourcing outside the closed club that is the EU is something they positively encourage.  Except when it come to the naughty UK.

So the stories about Brexit are laughable at best, or at worst, deliberate industrial sabotage by Remainers.   

But here is the worst thing about it.  It’s not for commercial reasons they are giving the warning.  The reason for the Airbus message is clear.  Punishment.   

They gave the game away when Tom Enders, the Airbus chief executive, said “Of course, it is not possible to pick up and move our large UK factories to other parts of the world immediately”.  So they have no problem dealing with countries that are not part of the EU and would indeed seek to move stuff from the UK to these countries.  It’s just they have a problem with dealing with a country whose people have voted to leave the EU.   

However there is one thing I suspect we would all agree with Mr Enders on.  He said it was a "disgrace" that businesses could still not plan for Brexit.. How true.  And we have no one to blame but those who seek to frustrate the will of the people.  

Why are Remainers are so desperate to keep us in and organisation that is rotten to the core?


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