Support car manufacturing in Wales?

[coolred]

Well I'm a cyclist and I would be dead against a car factory in Wales. It's the thin end of the wedge I tell you. First it's cars, next it'll be busses and before you know it we'll be making bloody aeroplane wings or whatever.

Would you say most cyclists would be against it? I guess we need some more cyclists to chime in - not a cyclist myself. You wouldn't want to see my thighs in Lycra I'll say.

[Barry Shitpeas]

Would you say most cyclists would be against it? I guess we need some more cyclists to chime in - not a cyclist myself. You wouldn't want to see my thighs in Lycra I'll say.

I can't speak for all cyclists obviously but I've just asked my next door neighbour, he's not a cyclist himself but his wife, god rest her soul, was and he reckons that she would have been vigorously opposed to any kind of vehicle manufacturing in Wales.

[Colonel Cærdiffi]

I can't speak for all cyclists obviously but I've just asked my next door neighbour, he's not a cyclist himself but his wife, god rest her soul, was and he reckons that she would have been vigorously opposed to any kind of vehicle manufacturing in Wales.

[lardy]

Would you say most cyclists would be against it? I guess we need some more cyclists to chime in - not a cyclist myself. You wouldn't want to see my thighs in Lycra I'll say.

Same question, why would cyclists be against it?

[Barry Shitpeas]

Same question, why would cyclists be against it?

Why wouldn't they be??!!

[TH63]

I'd be all in favour.

Problem is of course, you can forget about any European funding to build the factory and components sourced from overseas will be prohibitively expensive due to the weak pound and we've told our major export market to do one.

Perhaps the biggest issues though of course are the huge start up costs and without the volumes, the cost of the car will probably be higher than an Aston.

[bluethrough]

If this were to happen I would hope we would aim to out-Tesla Tesla, rather than try to compete with mainstream car building

[TH63]

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ions-elon-musk

[Colonel Cærdiffi]

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ions-elon-musk

"Ambulances have been called more than 100 times since 2014 for workers experiencing fainting spells, dizziness, seizures, abnormal breathing and chest pains..."

That's private sector workers for you. Lazy, excuse-making shirkers to a man.

[Organ Morgan.]

We don't want new manufacturing in Wales! What remains of industry should be offshored to China and other third-world sweatshops so they can make the stuff which we can purchase cheaply. We can pay for it by increasing national and household debt to yet greater heights. Globalisation has worked a treat so far with rampant consumerism displacing UK jobs. Nothing can go wrong with this economic model.

[Rhiw-Blue]

If this were to happen I would hope we would aim to out-Tesla Tesla, rather than try to compete with mainstream car building

We should go ahead with the PlayStation 5 too before Sony think of it.

We'll be minted

[MOZZER2]

coolred i guess you are talking a car assembly plant ? in terms of auto suppliers there is a thriving supply chain in Wales supporting lots of jobs to some of the major car OEM's . the supply chain into these are called tier 1 or tier 2 suppliers , bridgend ford , gestamp are 2 which spring to mind tho ford are going through a challenging time

with aston martin and possibly TVR coming down here there is a strong possibility that a few more suppliers will come down too which will be good for the Wales manufacturing industry. the law of averages in the auto industry if someone like JLR take on 1 worker the supply chain will take on 3 workers .

i,m sure brexit will have an effect to how it all pans out in the next few years