Quote Originally Posted by Des Parrot View Post
Honda closed
JLR sales down around 80% plus now partially moved to Slovakia
Toyota & Mini sales down
JLR engine plant at Wolverhampton, stopped buying engines from Bridgend

Shortages, chip sets, tft, lcds, glass, steel, wood, packaging A pallet has increased from Ł6 to Ł11. The list is endless

We used to export around 70% into Europe, Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Slovakia plus
The majority of that is now made in Poland and our UK factory living off scraps from JLR & Mini
As someone who supported Brexit, there were plenty of levers that could have been pulled to benefit certain sectors. There were plenty of deals that could have been done.

the problem being that COVID completely took our focus away and then various other factors combined in it being incredibly more difficult. Who knows how Brexit would have panned out if that was our sole focus over the last few years.

However, it has become a complete shit show so far and won’t improve before the next GE.