Unicorns are only in demand amongst EU fanatics Erik, they never stop talking about them. 🦄🦄🦄🦄 Well I suppose when you live in the EU dictatorship fantasy is your only escape. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@johnbrereton5229 The EU is not a dictatorship. You have to be really badly educated to think so. You are not much of an advertisement for the benefits of a British education are you? All EU parliamentarians are elected sorry, no dictators. Britain, on the other hand, has almost 700 unelected parliamentarians and an unelected Head of State and even the minority who are actually elected are elected by an undemocratic 'first past the post' system. Britain is far, far from being a democracy by any standards. Britain even has an unelected bureaucrat who sits in Cabinet no less, Lord Frost the whiskey salesman. There are no unelected bureaucrats in the EU either.
No one with any power or authority in the EU is elected, they are all appointed behind closed doors. MEP are elected, but they have no power whatsoever, they are just their to convince the naive that the EU is democratic, it isnt ! In the UK it's the reverse, only the elected MPs have power, neither the Lord's or the head of state (the Queen) does. I'm surprised you didnt know this? Especially as you claim to be educated ????????
@@ahgversluis It's the EU fanatics who love their EU dictatorship that's why 5 years after we voted to leave they still bang on about it. Are you all suffering from Stockholm syndrome? Why dont you ride off on that unicorn you keep talking about, back to your EU fantasy land !🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Honda doesn't want a bailout. This was announced in 2019, it was a strategic decision to not invest close to a billion pounds in transforming the plant to produce electric cars for the future. That is the issue, the transformation between old and new cars. It makes economic sense in their eyes not to proceed. However, a large US firm is spending £1 billion pounds on building a large electric car plant in Somerset. So there is a market for private investment.
Philip Crossman, the former Honda UK managing director and now automotive consultant, told Autocar exclusively that there were five key reasons for the decision: the global shifts in car sales, a dramatic fall in Chinese sales, the Japan-EU trade deal, Brexit uncertainty and - of course - the need to invest in electrification. Philip Crossman is the name of the Managing Director.
@@henriikkak2091 well it works out differently in most cases...you semi retire and take a partime job doing something different... that you enjoy more !
Do you have any evidence that Brexit was to blame, or are you just bitter that the vote didn’t go your way? Let it go! I work for a UK vehicle manufacturer and Brexit has had little impact on our production. I can't say the same for the pingdemic, that was caused by the cretins amongst us deciding to install an app designed by a moronic self-serving government. There are a lot of idiots in this country, but they’re not the ones who voted for Brexit!
@@johnhamilton2213 The prof at Cardiff, the most expert authority in the UK on the car industry says Brexit was indeed to blame for this. He is the expert. But then, Brexit voters don't like experts.
@@johnhamilton2213 Denying to the very end. Project Fear is becoming reality in every aspect of life. But if you bury your head in the sand deep enough and keep repeating "Nothing bad is gonna happen..." - well, it might actually help. A fairy may appear and rescue "Global Britain" from its own incompetence.
Actually Brexit voted for this,not 3000 Honda workers they Loved working for Honda Swindon.As usual though in business money is more important than people's lives.
So 3000 lose their jobs in the factory but how many more will lose their in companies that are dependent on the factory. For instance companies that delivers parts and transport the cars. And those that depend on the workers money, like shops, cafes, pubs and so on.
Good evening hasse102 - I can comfort you, Swindon will survive. We in Germany had even more drastic changes in the steel industry at the end of the 70s,. The dimensions were more crucial, a town like Hattingen (Ruhr area) lost 6,000 workers. I think the population was 25,000 - The state was not ready to help as the decline of the steel industry could not be stopped. When the factory gates opened at Hoesch in Dortmund in the afternoon thousands of workers left to go home - this has all gone. The restructuring is painful, Hattingen today is a very nice town, most people are employed. It will take a bit longer in Dortmund as a town with with 600,000 people has to invest a lot in its infrastructure. Wish you all the best.
Oh Dear; it seems as though someone is being a bit economical with the truth here? Honda told their workers that they were closing the plant in 2019; three years ago? The (BBC) reporter was trying to make it look as though Honda announced the closure suddenly in July 2021? Honda only build the Civic at this plant and they want to concentrate on building electric cars, hence the closure; although I don't know why they don't adapt the existing factory to build electric vehicles? As far as I know; Nissan are expanding their existing U.K. factory to build electric cars, and they are concentrating on the 'Home' market(Japan), the U.K., and Australia?
I heard there are job opportunitues in service industry... oh also truck drivers.. not to mention farms. Fishing is pretty much dead so point checking there..
“We didn’t see it coming?” Really? You were warned but didn’t want to hear it. I really do feel badly for these people, but ignorance does have consequences.
As a dedicated honda owner for past 20years I know something is going on,and I think honda is going to withdraw from car making for foreseeable future. Wait to see what happens with electric cars and then rejoin market when things have settled
Seems that Honda is effectively pulling out of Europe. they lost their way a couple of decades ago and stopped making cars that appealed to Europeans. Accord went some time ago, Civic has "challenging" styling that doesn't appeal to the majority, no Civic estate for many years, no 7-seaters after the Shuttle was killed off yet in the USA they have a much bigger range of vehicles on offer. I owned a 1985 Honda for almost 20 years, probably the best car I ever had but they have had nothing in their range that appeals to me for many, many years
@@cmartin_ok I've owned 11 hondas over past 20 years done huge mileage and never a single fault! ...until now . Big bills to replace faulty sensors. Just changed to skoda vrs .
The CEO said it was nothing to do with Brexit. Just look at the numbers of cars sold by Honda in Europe, a real decline. Honda is in free fall with the number of cars sold in Europe. It has nothing to do with Brexit, but a longstanding pattern that Honda cannot compete with other companies in Europe. www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/swindon-factory-closure-how-honda-got-europe-so-wrong
@@oneki I live in Swindon close to the plant, and it was announced in 2019 and was on the cards for the previous decade. Go and read the link I posted, HONDA sales per-year are 60% less than 20 years ago. HONDA simply can't sell their cars in the face of increased competition. Not to mention; they want all their cars electric by 2025. Something the UK and Europe are not ready for. Now, HONDA sell three times more to the UK than the EU combined. So it isn't a question of exports but simple economics, produce them in Japan and export them to the UK.
Quality of Swindon made Honda's was low and the cost of production was high. Just compare the quality of CR-V's made in the UK vs the USA and Japan made ones. Failure rates were much higher on cars that came from Swindon.
Honda closed there Swindon site due to the EU signing a trade deal with Japan, so they no longer needed a manufacturing site in the EU. Though this report forgot to mention that Hondas factory has already been sold to logistics company Panattoni who are investing £700 million in the plant. But then this report was from the Brussels Broadcasting Company and so will always be EU bias.
You can't go around telling people the truth because it's not what they want to hear. It's closing because of Brexit. The EU free trade deal with Japan has got nothing to do with it either. It can't be the fault of the EU because the remoaners are always right!
@@smokego4808 Yes, of course you are right, it's like on another Remoaner TH-cam channel they are complaining of empty shelves in supermarkets ? Where are these empty shelves I asked ? After a lot of avoidance they finally let slip, they are in Northern Ireland. Oh well, that's because of the EU blockade I said. Oh dear, they didn't like to hear the truth about their EU fantasy.
@@johnbrereton5229 I agree. They keep saying the shelves are empty in Wales. Half a dozen ppl from Wales I've spoken to on here are still wondering were they are. It's remoaner B.S.
@@neilrobson3064 Over 1,000 EU finance companies have open up offices in the UK since Brexit Neil, all creating more employment for Brits. But far more manufacturing jobs have been created since we left the EU dictatorship, like the giant giga factories being built as we speak. Because the UK has become far more attractive to foreign investors since leaving and is now the world 4th most popular country for foreign investors. Thats because dictatorships are prone to bury invovation and enterprise under a mountain of red tape and that is a major reason Elon Musk is now regretting his mistake in building his Tesla factory in Germany and not the UK.
Britain and EU have signed tariff free trade deals with Japan. They don't need factories in the UK as they can import from Japan. Honda cars not selling that well either
@@rustypipe Honda is a Japanese owned company. Renault is the largest shareholder in Nissan. It does not have a nationalistic imperative to move production back to Japan. It's biggest factory is in China
To the morons who only understand Brexit & nothing else try to understand the actual reasons behind the closure & not just your sour grapes. Honda simply doesn't have the market share in Europe or the UK to justify the plant anymore. The writing as been on the wall since line 2 was mothballed. Nissan have had huge demand for their Qashqai & Juke models in this part of the world, hence they are staying put. Please try to explain away BMW expanding & remodeling their Mini pressing plant in Swindon at the same time Honda were winding down? Or the EV start up Arrival, based in Banbury going from strength to strength, or the possible new factory for Rivian being started in the UK?
This presenter can't help but he will be alright on £ 200,000 a year this guy making money showing a disaster that effects thousands no help from the media though?
"but he will be alright on £ 200,000 a year" That's like something the DailyMail would say. Why do Brits like to paint people who earn more than average in a negative light ? How would the media help in this case ?
This is whats happening - less drivers due to high taxes and fuel prices - government increasing emission requirements even though they are pointless - average speed cameras - police stops you for anything - Honda is struggling right now and they are not taking electric cars seriously - Brexit is a bad idea when the government shutsdown power plants and punish farmers
This is what happens when you based your industrial policy on a second rate student quality essay written and ask people who know no better to vote for it
What can you all do now, that you couldn't do before brexit???😔. Eerrrrrm, look for another job? ?? You've all hung yourselves on the bus sticker advertising free money for the NHS !!!!!complacent arrogance!!!! Thought you people where intelligent? Ehhhhhh never mind . It's pitifully sad really. Anyway kick on !!!!!🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈
Kenneth, it has noting to do with Brexit but a general decline in Honda to A) Sell cars in Europe and the UK. B) increase competition. Read: www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/swindon-factory-closure-how-honda-got-europe-so-wrong keep your fake news to yourself!
Again, nothing to do with Brexit, listen to CEO of Honda instead of making things up to suit your false narrative that Brexit is the cause of all misery.
@@kincaidwolf5184 Do you know, I actually think we are both kind of right; Honda announced this in 2019, so they were aware of the Brexit decision. Like Nissan, Honda stands to benefit from a new trade deal between the European Union and Japan, which will make it easier to produce cars in Japan for export to the bloc. Honda has though a manufacturing plant in Belgium which will likely stay open so they can keep the European operation sweet.
@@alvinburrell But again, the CEO said it was nothing to do with Brexit. The real issue seems, is Honda do not want to pay 100s of millions needed to transform the old plant, to produce a new line of modern electric cars. I mean, Honda sales have collapsed generally in Europe. Honda is in free fall with the number of cars sold in Europe. It has nothing to do with Brexit, but a longstanding pattern that Honda cannot compete with other companies. Read this article: www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/swindon-factory-closure-how-honda-got-europe-so-wrong If you read up too, you can see Honda plan to produce all their cars to be a 100% electric by 2025, and they plan on producing all these in Japan and exporting them to the UK. Honda biggest market is by far the UK, selling more in the UK than the entire EU combined.
Well apparently it’s okay they’re making the sacrifices now because in a 25-50 years time they’ll be reaping the massive Brexit rewards. Just don’t ask how they’re going to pay their bills in the meantime………although if there is a problem they can blame everyone else.
It has nothing to do with Brexit, literally listen to what the CEO of Honda has said! It is about a general decline in Honda to A) Sell cars in Europe and the UK. B) increase competition. Read: www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/swindon-factory-closure-how-honda-got-europe-so-wrong keep your fake news to yourself!
@@kincaidwolf5184 Japanese companies have a rule don’t rock the boat. The devaluation of the pound the day after the referendum increased material costs, the 10% import tariff on all cars imported outside of Europe was the nail in the coffin. Now tell me again Brexit had nothing to do with it.
No mention of the objections by the residents of Highworth to Honda installing wind turbines either.this would have reduced their overheads and with the investment they would have made in it maybe they would have stayed put.you reep what you sow.
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At least Swindon got it's sovereign tea!
Perhaps they could go back to making trains lovely English trains for English tracks.
@@kerrymould1698 well British do make the tracks for the TGV ...
@@kerrymould1698 carriages.
After Aeroplanes and cars, what’s next?
Well, the demand for unicorns seems to be pretty high in Britain.
Build those then!
Unicorns are only in demand amongst EU fanatics Erik, they never stop talking about them. 🦄🦄🦄🦄
Well I suppose when you live in the EU dictatorship fantasy is your only escape.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@johnbrereton5229 The EU is not a dictatorship. You have to be really badly educated to think so. You are not much of an advertisement for the benefits of a British education are you? All EU parliamentarians are elected sorry, no dictators. Britain, on the other hand, has almost 700 unelected parliamentarians and an unelected Head of State and even the minority who are actually elected are elected by an undemocratic 'first past the post' system. Britain is far, far from being a democracy by any standards. Britain even has an unelected bureaucrat who sits in Cabinet no less, Lord Frost the whiskey salesman. There are no unelected bureaucrats in the EU either.
@@johnbrereton5229 in your reasoning, dictatorships are in high demand among brexiters, they kept banging on about it long before the unicorns
No one with any power or authority in the EU is elected, they are all appointed behind closed doors. MEP are elected, but they have no power whatsoever, they are just their to convince the naive that the EU is democratic, it isnt !
In the UK it's the reverse, only the elected MPs have power, neither the Lord's or the head of state (the Queen) does. I'm surprised you didnt know this?
Especially as you claim to be educated ????????
@@ahgversluis
It's the EU fanatics who love their EU dictatorship that's why 5 years after we voted to leave they still bang on about it.
Are you all suffering from Stockholm syndrome? Why dont you ride off on that unicorn you keep talking about, back to your EU fantasy land !🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Tories bailed out Nissan in Sunderland by they refused to give Honda anything. Hope Swindon remembers that at the next election.
Honda doesn't want a bailout. This was announced in 2019, it was a strategic decision to not invest close to a billion pounds in transforming the plant to produce electric cars for the future. That is the issue, the transformation between old and new cars. It makes economic sense in their eyes not to proceed. However, a large US firm is spending £1 billion pounds on building a large electric car plant in Somerset. So there is a market for private investment.
Philip Crossman, the former Honda UK managing director and now automotive consultant, told Autocar exclusively that there were five key reasons for the decision: the global shifts in car sales, a dramatic fall in Chinese sales, the Japan-EU trade deal, Brexit uncertainty and - of course - the need to invest in electrification. Philip Crossman is the name of the Managing Director.
@@FriendsInLowPlacees the former head of Honda...really what was his name ?
They will and still vote tory
@@markdowns9607 His name is Philip Crossman. Sorry if I did not spell his name correctly. You can google his name+Honda and you'll find him.
They look so passives as it was a natural disaster and not the result of their own choice.
remember, some 17mil decided to leave, 51% of those that chose to vote.
@@Vordigon1 but only a quarter of the population. And it was a referendum, not a vote. 52% is is far to less to make a decision by.
@@Vordigon1, you meant 17 million of deluded farting bags with smooth and shiny brains?
It wasn't their own choice, it was someone else's fault.
@@vereferreus5262 what an economic genius you are 😂🤣😂🤣👍
They were told this would happen if they voted Brexit and it did....sit under an elephant's behind, expect to get shat on.
HONDA said it wasn't due to brexit
@@simonrodgers2375 . And you do trust Honda?
@@simonrodgers2375 Yes it was and they warned for it.
Who drives a Honda apart from old people, sad people lost their jobs but Honda cars are awful
@@vereferreus5262 like you know of course !
Most of the work force in honda was 50+ . Probably worked out perfect for them for early retirement.
I doubt it
@@kerrymould1698 evidence please ?
How many factory workers have the means to retire at 50-60 years of age? Statistically
@@henriikkak2091 well it works out differently in most cases...you semi retire and take a partime job doing something different... that you enjoy more !
Swindon voted overwhelmingly for Brexit and got what they wanted
Do you have any evidence that Brexit was to blame, or are you just bitter that the vote didn’t go your way? Let it go! I work for a UK vehicle manufacturer and Brexit has had little impact on our production. I can't say the same for the pingdemic, that was caused by the cretins amongst us deciding to install an app designed by a moronic self-serving government. There are a lot of idiots in this country, but they’re not the ones who voted for Brexit!
@@johnhamilton2213 The prof at Cardiff, the most expert authority in the UK on the car industry says Brexit was indeed to blame for this. He is the expert. But then, Brexit voters don't like experts.
@@johnhamilton2213 Denying to the very end. Project Fear is becoming reality in every aspect of life. But if you bury your head in the sand deep enough and keep repeating "Nothing bad is gonna happen..." - well, it might actually help. A fairy may appear and rescue "Global Britain" from its own incompetence.
@@oipedmp2od23 evidence please ?
@@dreamdancer8212 £ is up € continues to fall 🤑🤑🤑
More like Swind(led)on by Farage and his ilk!
BREXIT ?? no ,no link at all.
Swindon was one of the first areas in the country to declare a result, which saw 61,745 (54.7%) vote to leave.
And?
And ?
It’s not the strong that survive but the most adaptable. I wish a all the workers the best in finding new futures
People of Swindon voted for this and they should be celebrating for getting what they wanted
Actually Brexit voted for this,not 3000 Honda workers they Loved working for Honda Swindon.As usual though in business money is more important than people's lives.
Been in the same situation myself. You have to go out and find new work. There is no such thing as a job for life anymore.
They have also closed down their factory in the USA.......It must be down to Brexit.
Honda has 12 factories in The USA. They are not closing.
So a lying brexy again? Why do you lot do it all the time? The majority now just laughs at you.
Agreed... but what else can we blame Brexit for ?
any local tories say there is plenty of job's around. yeh ok
So 3000 lose their jobs in the factory but how many more will lose their in companies that are dependent on the factory. For instance companies that delivers parts and transport the cars.
And those that depend on the workers money, like shops, cafes, pubs and so on.
Honda had many restaurants on site and owned a few hotels/restuarants locally.
Good evening hasse102 - I can comfort you, Swindon will survive. We in Germany had even more drastic changes in the steel industry at the end of the 70s,. The dimensions were more crucial, a town like Hattingen (Ruhr area) lost 6,000 workers. I think the population was 25,000 - The state was not ready to help as the decline of the steel industry could not be stopped.
When the factory gates opened at Hoesch in Dortmund in the afternoon thousands of workers left to go home - this has all gone.
The restructuring is painful, Hattingen today is a very nice town, most people are employed. It will take a bit longer in Dortmund as a town with with 600,000 people has to invest a lot in its infrastructure.
Wish you all the best.
Oh Dear; it seems as though someone is being a bit economical with the truth here?
Honda told their workers that they were closing the plant in 2019; three years ago? The (BBC) reporter was trying to make it look as though Honda announced the closure suddenly in July 2021?
Honda only build the Civic at this plant and they want to concentrate on building electric cars, hence the closure; although I don't know why they don't adapt the existing factory to build electric vehicles?
As far as I know; Nissan are expanding their existing U.K. factory to build electric cars, and they are concentrating on the 'Home' market(Japan), the U.K., and Australia?
All these salty tears. They voted to lose their jobs and they lost their jobs. What’s the problem
The chances are the unicorn will still have a Honda engine though...
I heard there are job opportunitues in service industry... oh also truck drivers.. not to mention farms. Fishing is pretty much dead so point checking there..
But I heard the fish are happy now...because they're British
Didn't Jacob Rees mogg said so
"But we to close down everything to save everybody"
They voted leave and Honda left
Three cheers for Honda !!
They were told this would happen. Arrogant Boris's Brexit, good luck with that!
Turkeys voting for Christmas.
I wonder how many voted for Brexit?
They are still there as they use me but under Honda Motor Europe Viscount Way Swindon.
What is the regional accent in Swindon? Swear in that video I heard Geordie, Mancunian and Somerset in there.
“We didn’t see it coming?” Really? You were warned but didn’t want to hear it. I really do feel badly for these people, but ignorance does have consequences.
They kept saying it was nothing to do with brexit when it clearly was
Destination f....d
by 'Greatness'.
Own goal...
Take a look at Detroit to see, what’s next.
Project fear is after all project here
I bet most of these ex Honda workers will STILL vote for the Conservatives next election 🤣👍🏾
Don’t buy a Honda if you’re British
Buy a bmw instead
@@marcphelan9883trash
They voted Leave and Honda left...
Brexit was always going to cost. The staff at Honda are paying the price. My sympathies go out to remain employees.
Hardly bad news, 60k+ minimum payment and chaps who put on wing-mirrors for 20 plus years getting 150k plus bonuses
But Fartage, BJ and Reek-Knobb said there will be no trouble..
So no worries then
If all these super honest blokes said so
As a dedicated honda owner for past 20years I know something is going on,and I think honda is going to withdraw from car making for foreseeable future. Wait to see what happens with electric cars and then rejoin market when things have settled
Seems that Honda is effectively pulling out of Europe. they lost their way a couple of decades ago and stopped making cars that appealed to Europeans. Accord went some time ago, Civic has "challenging" styling that doesn't appeal to the majority, no Civic estate for many years, no 7-seaters after the Shuttle was killed off yet in the USA they have a much bigger range of vehicles on offer. I owned a 1985 Honda for almost 20 years, probably the best car I ever had but they have had nothing in their range that appeals to me for many, many years
@@cmartin_ok I've owned 11 hondas over past 20 years done huge mileage and never a single fault! ...until now . Big bills to replace faulty sensors. Just changed to skoda vrs .
Just like that?!
Did swindon vote brexit? Yes!
The CEO said it was nothing to do with Brexit. Just look at the numbers of cars sold by Honda in Europe, a real decline. Honda is in free fall with the number of cars sold in Europe. It has nothing to do with Brexit, but a longstanding pattern that Honda cannot compete with other companies in Europe. www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/swindon-factory-closure-how-honda-got-europe-so-wrong
@@kincaidwolf5184sure if it makes the workers feel better to read this, then good for them. Project fear right?
@@oneki I live in Swindon close to the plant, and it was announced in 2019 and was on the cards for the previous decade. Go and read the link I posted, HONDA sales per-year are 60% less than 20 years ago. HONDA simply can't sell their cars in the face of increased competition. Not to mention; they want all their cars electric by 2025. Something the UK and Europe are not ready for. Now, HONDA sell three times more to the UK than the EU combined. So it isn't a question of exports but simple economics, produce them in Japan and export them to the UK.
Farmers are waiting for pickers, so
One of the many BREXIT benefits eh ? Welcome to the Brexit Sir !
Quality of Swindon made Honda's was low and the cost of production was high.
Just compare the quality of CR-V's made in the UK vs the USA and Japan made ones. Failure rates were much higher on cars that came from Swindon.
They've also shut down production in the USA
Looks like we do not buy a Honda?
Honda closed there Swindon site due to the EU signing a trade deal with Japan, so they no longer needed a manufacturing site in the EU. Though this report forgot to mention that Hondas factory has already been sold to logistics company Panattoni who are investing £700 million in the plant.
But then this report was from the Brussels Broadcasting Company and so will always be EU bias.
You can't go around telling people the truth because it's not what they want to hear. It's closing because of Brexit. The EU free trade deal with Japan has got nothing to do with it either. It can't be the fault of the EU because the remoaners are always right!
@@smokego4808
Yes, of course you are right, it's like on another Remoaner TH-cam channel they are complaining of empty shelves in supermarkets ? Where are these empty shelves I asked ? After a lot of avoidance they finally let slip, they are in Northern Ireland. Oh well, that's because of the EU blockade I said. Oh dear, they didn't like to hear the truth about their EU fantasy.
@@johnbrereton5229 I agree. They keep saying the shelves are empty in Wales. Half a dozen ppl from Wales I've spoken to on here are still wondering were they are. It's remoaner B.S.
Swapping manufacturing jobs for logistics jobs - not much of a trade…..
@@neilrobson3064
Over 1,000 EU finance companies have open up offices in the UK since Brexit Neil, all creating more employment for Brits. But far more manufacturing jobs have been created since we left the EU dictatorship, like the giant giga factories being built as we speak. Because the UK has become far more attractive to foreign investors since leaving and is now the world 4th most popular country for foreign investors.
Thats because dictatorships are prone to bury invovation and enterprise under a mountain of red tape and that is a major reason Elon Musk is now regretting his mistake in building his Tesla factory in Germany and not the UK.
Welcome to Brexit. Enjoy your success.
Definitely the £ is up and the € is well down since independence day!
Brexit means Brexit though?
Britain and EU have signed tariff free trade deals with Japan. They don't need factories in the UK as they can import from Japan. Honda cars not selling that well either
so Nissan could do the same and they don't!
@@rustypipe Honda is a Japanese owned company. Renault is the largest shareholder in Nissan. It does not have a nationalistic imperative to move production back to Japan. It's biggest factory is in China
At least the Uk fish industry is doing fine. Who needs cars anyway?
Welcome to the Brexit sir.
Total Farthead as usual .
Think bevor Vote..that is the Result!!
All hail brexit 🙌!
Brexit means Brexit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😘😘😘😘😘😘
another benefit of brexit right ?
Thank borris and co
BREXIT DIVIDEND!
To the morons who only understand Brexit & nothing else try to understand the actual reasons behind the closure & not just your sour grapes.
Honda simply doesn't have the market share in Europe or the UK to justify the plant anymore.
The writing as been on the wall since line 2 was mothballed.
Nissan have had huge demand for their Qashqai & Juke models in this part of the world, hence they are staying put.
Please try to explain away BMW expanding & remodeling their Mini pressing plant in Swindon at the same time Honda were winding down?
Or the EV start up Arrival, based in Banbury going from strength to strength, or the possible new factory for Rivian being started in the UK?
yeah but Nisan !!!
This presenter can't help but he will be alright on £ 200,000 a year this guy making money showing a disaster that effects thousands no help from the media though?
"but he will be alright on £ 200,000 a year" That's like something the DailyMail would say.
Why do Brits like to paint people who earn more than average in a negative light ?
How would the media help in this case ?
This is whats happening
- less drivers due to high taxes and fuel prices
- government increasing emission requirements even though they are pointless
- average speed cameras
- police stops you for anything
- Honda is struggling right now and they are not taking electric cars seriously
- Brexit is a bad idea when the government shutsdown power plants and punish farmers
You forgot IR35...this has really changed the landscape !
@@markdowns9607 entire situation is a mess
@@gvi341984 maybe but take IR35 out of the equation it becomes another ball game entirely.
This is what happens when you based your industrial policy on a second rate student quality essay written and ask people who know no better to vote for it
Or this is what happens when the EU sign a free trade deal with Japan!
@@smokego4808Alexander Boris de Piffle Johnson never thought of that in his second rate student quality essay
@@JohnCosmas no indeed!
What can you all do now, that you couldn't do before brexit???😔.
Eerrrrrm, look for another job? ?? You've all hung yourselves on the bus sticker advertising free money for the NHS !!!!!complacent arrogance!!!!
Thought you people where intelligent? Ehhhhhh never mind . It's pitifully sad really. Anyway kick on !!!!!🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈
Welcome to Brexit, Sir.
Kenneth, it has noting to do with Brexit but a general decline in Honda to A) Sell cars in Europe and the UK. B) increase competition. Read: www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/swindon-factory-closure-how-honda-got-europe-so-wrong keep your fake news to yourself!
Be some cheap houses in Swindon now...
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No sympathy the majority voted for Brexit
A very currupted place and no care taken on making the car and its shut down no wonder
You voted for it now you got it plenty of nice low paid job for yea
Don't worry, with all the Brexit opportunities, the now redundant employees will soon get a job elsewhere and at double the pay.
Are you being sarcastic or not? I can't tell
The answer is let's not buy any more hondas. simples.
The answer is don't vote tory simples
The key number here is 54.7%. That's how they voted for Brexit. So I guess it's worth it for them.
Brexit has nothing to do with it.. yeah right. How many workers voted for Brexit?
Again, nothing to do with Brexit, listen to CEO of Honda instead of making things up to suit your false narrative that Brexit is the cause of all misery.
@@kincaidwolf5184 Do you know, I actually think we are both kind of right; Honda announced this in 2019, so they were aware of the Brexit decision. Like Nissan, Honda stands to benefit from a new trade deal between the European Union and Japan, which will make it easier to produce cars in Japan for export to the bloc. Honda has though a manufacturing plant in Belgium which will likely stay open so they can keep the European operation sweet.
@@alvinburrell But again, the CEO said it was nothing to do with Brexit. The real issue seems, is Honda do not want to pay 100s of millions needed to transform the old plant, to produce a new line of modern electric cars. I mean, Honda sales have collapsed generally in Europe. Honda is in free fall with the number of cars sold in Europe. It has nothing to do with Brexit, but a longstanding pattern that Honda cannot compete with other companies. Read this article: www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/swindon-factory-closure-how-honda-got-europe-so-wrong If you read up too, you can see Honda plan to produce all their cars to be a 100% electric by 2025, and they plan on producing all these in Japan and exporting them to the UK. Honda biggest market is by far the UK, selling more in the UK than the entire EU combined.
@@kincaidwolf5184 thanks, I think your argument is a fair one. :-).
Well apparently it’s okay they’re making the sacrifices now because in a 25-50 years time they’ll be reaping the massive Brexit rewards. Just don’t ask how they’re going to pay their bills in the meantime………although if there is a problem they can blame everyone else.
It has nothing to do with Brexit, literally listen to what the CEO of Honda has said! It is about a general decline in Honda to A) Sell cars in Europe and the UK. B) increase competition. Read: www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/swindon-factory-closure-how-honda-got-europe-so-wrong keep your fake news to yourself!
@@kincaidwolf5184 Japanese companies have a rule don’t rock the boat. The devaluation of the pound the day after the referendum increased material costs, the 10% import tariff on all cars imported outside of Europe was the nail in the coffin. Now tell me again Brexit had nothing to do with it.
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Are ya feelin that sovereignty yet? Brexit means Brexit LOL!
And not a single mention of brexit. This is the BBC reporting, or reduced to vomiting preformatted government rhetoric. Disgrraceful!
Womp womp
How corrupt is the BBC? Not one mention of brexit. The key reason for Honda's withdrawal from the UK.
The CEO of the BBC was changed by a fascist regime.
@@vereferreus5262 , he's a donor of the party, so he'd been rewarded.
Wait, what evidence do you have that it was Brexit related? Because the CEO, literally said in a press release it was nothing to do with Brexit?
A Remoaner to the last !
@@markdowns9607 The same insults, the same gammon...
Nevermind at least we've got our sovereignty back eh.
Plenty of sovereignty.
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Honda not only pulled out of the UK...but Europe as well.
Says how important the EU is to Honda !
another Brexit bonus.
Brexit ....the gift that keeps.on giving
The Joy's of brexit...
We all know the answer. Do not buy Honda cars. Buy Nissan cars that are made in the UK. Hit honda where it hurts in their pockets.
How's that working out?
@@Evemeister12 It keeps people in Sunderland in work. Then they can pay income tax to keep all the woke leftwing layabouts on the social.
Well this is the price of brexit, enjoy it
No mention of the objections by the residents of Highworth to Honda installing wind turbines either.this would have reduced their overheads and with the investment they would have made in it maybe they would have stayed put.you reep what you sow.
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Civic suck
Yay Brexit!