Airbus to leave UK if there's no deal

[tazdevil]

14000 direct jobs and almost another 100000 indirect jobs at risk
There goes the brexit dividend on lost income tax and additional unemployment benefits

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44570931

Yes project fear with a vengeance, our lords and masters in Brussels must be getting worried. I assume they'll introduce a law banning all foreign goods to cement their protectionist racket and justify their anti British rhetoric EADS is a private company with <30% public ownership and not an EU quango. Our aerospace industries have a great future and aren't subsidiaries of EU Inc Perhaps the EU should double down and ban collaboration with US and Chinese tech companies as they're not part of the EU deal either

[Old Greg]

Yes project fear with a vengeance, our lords and masters in Brussels must be getting worried. I assume they'll introduce a law banning all foreign goods to cement their protectionist racket and justify their anti British rhetoric EADS is a private company with <30% public ownership and not an EU quango. Our aerospace industries have a great future and aren't subsidiaries of EU Inc Perhaps the EU should double down and ban collaboration with US and Chinese tech companies as they're not part of the EU deal either

That's the spirit!

[Eirikur]

. Our aerospace industries have a great future and aren't subsidiaries of EU Inc:

Yes Rolls Royce making 5000 people redundant
Bombardier (not British) facing 210% import tariffs in the US

Things are going great, lots of winning

[WTFH]

Wibble

FTFY

[Paddy]

That's the spirit!

Umm, the Spitfire Memorial (replica Spitfire) near the old Ford Factory in Eastleigh is proudly sponsored by BMW.

[Pat Phelan]

Airbus won't leave, it is all just bluster......

[scooterscot]

sell your overpriced UK property now before it's too late

the crash is going to be super ugly

[motoukenin]

Yes project fear with a vengeance, our lords and masters in Brussels must be getting worried. I assume they'll introduce a law banning all foreign goods to cement their protectionist racket and justify their anti British rhetoric EADS is a private company with <30% public ownership and not an EU quango. Our aerospace industries have a great future and aren't subsidiaries of EU Inc Perhaps the EU should double down and ban collaboration with US and Chinese tech companies as they're not part of the EU deal either

How does this fit in with Shaunboys pub model, did a satellite fall through the roof ?

[radish2008]

It's not just Airbus. The Japanese have made it crystal clear they'll be leaving too. All of this was predictable to all but the Brexit dimwits.

I love the way that the argument was framed as 'you said it would all go wrong after the referendum' instead of the truth as I remember it of 'it will all go wrong when we leave Europe'

[radish2008]

In any case, the UK doesn't need these foreign aerospace companies. Time to regain some national pride and return to the innovative days of dominance in the field of human flight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilmer_of_Malmesbury

The best description of Brexit I've seen in a long time

He was a man learned for those times, of ripe old age, and in his early youth had hazarded a deed of remarkable boldness. He had by some means, I scarcely know what, fastened wings to his hands and feet so that, mistaking fable for truth, he might fly like Daedalus, and, collecting the breeze upon the summit of a tower, flew for more than a furlong [201 metres]. But agitated by the violence of the wind and the swirling of air, as well as by the awareness of his rash attempt, he fell, broke both his legs and was lame ever after. He used to relate as the cause of his failure, his forgetting to provide himself a tail