Jaguar Land Rover

[Suff]

Want to increase output to 1M vehicles and increase the UK workforce by 10,000. For this they want some guarantees though. Increased Electricity supply and access to skills which can be imported to the UK.

Now why would they want to do that? Aren’t we leaving the EU and going into uncertain times and closing our borders and it’s all going to go to a bag of spanners isn’t it???

Well, actually, this is an anticipation of what is going to happen. JLR sell the majority of their vehicles in the UK, US and Asia and they’re manufactured mainly in the UK. When we emerge from the EU, JLR will become more expensive in the UK, sure. But they are anticipating better trade deals with the entire rest of the world. Something which has been holding them back within the EU.

JLR is not the ONLY company which is going to see things this way.

For me this is just a token of what is going to happen over the next 2 years. Unless Blair and Major get their way. Slimy gits the pair of them. One I was instrumental in voting out of Scotland entirely. The other I tried very hard to ensure did not get into power every time he stood.

[Workingman]

Ah, now they are all lining up behind Nissan.

Promise big numbers, a million vehicles and 10,000 jobs, but then ask the UK taxpayer for some infrastructure on site and some cheap electricity. Nice work if you can get it, especially when a spokesman said that it was all "very much a want, rather than a will".

Cynical? Moi? Surely not?

[Suff]

True, cynical is warranted.

However my take is that the world cannot and will not ignore the fifth largest economy in the world when it emerges from the EU.

[Workingman]

You are right, the world cannot ignore the UK, nor can the UK ignore the world.

Everyone is in game-play mode at the moment, and all are jostling for position. We have Bliar and Major, the CBI, the Supreme Court, the EU, big business, small business, MPs, the Government, the media..... Everyone wants a voice.

Every one of them is playing on the uncertainty created by Cameron.

[cromwell]

ask the UK taxpayer for some infrastructure on site and some cheap electricity. Nice work if you can get it

True, but if you don't ask you don't get and I'm sure JLR are aware that manufacturing and exporting are jobs this country really needs, and the government know it too.

Personally I think the government should go along with it so long as JLR promise to give away a couple of thousand F Pace SUV's to deserving cases... the old knee is playing up a bit but a free jag might take my mind off it..

[Workingman]

at the knee..... I have two, is that two Jags?

However, if you are a small engineering firm in Cleckhuddersfax you can't go to the government and ask for cash to keep you going, that is only available to the big boys. Well you can, but you will be told where to go.

We definitely are going to have to increase manufacturing and exports, but if companies are going to benefit from the opportunities then they also have to accept the risks. They cannot all continue to use the taxpayers as an insurance if things do not go as planned.

Thatcher killed manufacturing in the UK in favour of 'services', but things have to change. By all means help them to get started, but once they are up and running they have to be left to sustain themselves. JLR is already successful. It pays dividends to it 'investors', it is up to them to support any expansion.