EUSSR evil policies

[AtW]

How EU rules left Slovakia free to entice Jaguar Land Rover from UK with £110m state aid sweetener

How EU rules left Slovakia free to entice Jaguar Land Rover from UK with GBP110m state aid sweetener

How very dare EUSSR allowed member state to create attractive conditions to gain major manufacturing production!

[original PM]

It's not evil.

But the point is those at the top of the EU see the EU as the important thing and not the individual members

So for them it makes no difference if JLR employs people in Slovakia or England - they still get rich.

Obviously for the countries in question who have to deal with the fall out of these decisions it is a different proposition.

[AtW]

JLR got the right to employ where it’s best for JLR - private for-profit cmpany.

Govt job is to create conditions for JLR, Slovakia does it, this country - not

[original PM]

JLR got the right to employ where it’s best for JLR - private for-profit cmpany.

Govt job is to create conditions for JLR, Slovakia does it, this country - not

You know as well as I do that lower cost of living means lower wages can be paid.

But either way it is again just an example of why the Eu cannot be good for every country all the time and so it is ever only really good for those on that gravy train.

[Old Greg]

You know as well as I do that lower cost of living means lower wages can be paid.

But either way it is again just an example of why the Eu cannot be good for every country all the time and so it is ever only really good for those on that gravy train.

Does that logic apply to the UK and its four constituent countries?

[meridian]

You know as well as I do that lower cost of living means lower wages can be paid.

Out of the top four car manufacturers in the EU (DE, FR, ES, UK) it is the UK that pays the least.

I have a pet theory about it: decades of manufacturing decline in the UK led to conditions where the North East where there is qualified labour (engineers, fitters, turners, etc) but no work - ideal conditions created by successive UK governments for large overseas companies such as Nissan to approach the UK government for subsidies and incentives to set up manufacturing there to enable them to take advantage and to keep wages suppressed compared to their EU mainland counterparts.

Nothing much to do with the EU, but with successive UK governments and international companies.

Companies will consider moving to where labour is cheaper (not always, there are complexities around the skill levels and the capital cost of moving) but a large factor is the government creating conditions that allow this to happen.

[AtW]

You know as well as I do that lower cost of living means lower wages can be paid.

And whose fault it is that this country got high cost of living, EUs or maybe duly elected MPs in this country?

This country used to have low taxes but crap public service, now it has got high taxes and crap public services, under Korbyn it will be very high taxes and still crap public services.

If I did not live in this country over 20 years and did not feel that it's my home I would have buggered off few years ago, right after Tory Scum increased taxes.

[darmstadt]

It's not evil.

But the point is those at the top of the EU see the EU as the important thing and not the individual members

So for them it makes no difference if JLR employs people in Slovakia or England - they still get rich.

Obviously for the countries in question who have to deal with the fall out of these decisions it is a different proposition.

You know as well as I do that lower cost of living means lower wages can be paid.

But either way it is again just an example of why the Eu cannot be good for every country all the time and so it is ever only really good for those on that gravy train.

Nothing to do with the EU. Lets have a look at James Dyson shall we...

[Whorty]

You know as well as I do that lower cost of living means lower wages can be paid.

But either way it is again just an example of why the Eu cannot be good for every country all the time and so it is ever only really good for those on that gravy train.

Do you really believe the tosh you spout, or are you trolling for the sake of it? None of what you say makes any sense, in so much that of course the EU is interested in the success of the EU as a whole and this is achieved by ensuring individual countries do well. As we're leaving they won't help us more than their own members; they will only give us something beneficial if the knock on is additional benefits to its members.

WRT JLR, it's in the EU's interest to coax this work away from the UK to one of its members. Slovakia have clearly created an environment that suits JLR. Had we stayed in the EU JLR may not have felt the need to move the jobs.

Hey ho, who needs jobs in the UK eh? We hold all the cards. They need us more than we need them

[Old Greg]

Do you really believe the tosh you spout, or are you trolling for the sake of it?

Sadly, we must assume the former.