Tory Brexit DOOM: Jaguar Land Rover to close Solihull factory for two weeks

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This October furlough (not Christmas) is (they claim) due to the drop in sales in China (down 46%). They have moved close to 2,000 workers onto a 3 day week.
JLR announces two-week shutdown of Solihull plant The Engineer

They are also moving 100% of Discovery production to Slovakia.
They currently have the i-pace (electric), which is manufactured by Magna-Steyr in Austria.
They don't produce electric cars in the UK.
They have committed to only produce electric or hybrid cars by 2020.

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In further news:

US threatens to block UK from global procurement pact

The U.S. is threatening to block the U.K. from a 46-nation public procurement agreement, a move that would deny British companies from accessing a near $2 trillion marketplace after leaving the European Union, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation.

The U.K. will apply to rejoin the Government Procurement Agreement, a $1.7 trillion trade accord that governs global appropriation rules, since it will lose its membership after Brexit in March. U.S. negotiators have told their British counterparts that their application is outdated and needs to be revised, said the officials, who asked not to be identified because talks are ongoing.

The US-SSR is going to extract its pound of flesh as Britain ends up on the naughty step.

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The world outside the EU is really exciting, the UK can no go loggerheads and squabble with hundreds of other countries.