The first sizeable deal of the new era?

[CretinWatcher]

Boeing to create 2,000 new UK jobs in £3bn plane deal - BBC News

Clutching at straws I see.

If you look closely at that "deal", we pay Boeing 3 billion and they set up a 100 million maintenance facility in the UK.

They "expect" to create 2000 new jobs.
No doubt that's what they said when they were waiting to get 3 billion from us.
Personally I call that a mugging not a deal.

[BlasterBates]

Not really comparable with the cancelled deals from international companies simply setting up to export into the EU without any UK government subsidy.

[AtW]

If you look closely at that "deal", we pay Boeing 3 billion and they set up a 100 million maintenance facility in the UK.

WHS

[LondonManc]

Despite Brexit, the UK will always have a friend in Beijing, says Xu Jin, a minister at China's embassy in London. "The British should not worry about China not being your friend after Brexit," he tells a conference.

Still no WW3 yet.

[AtW]

Despite Brexit, the UK will always have a friend in Beijing, says Xu Jin, a minister at China's embassy in London. "The British should not worry about China not being your friend after Brexit," he tells a conference.

Still no WW3 yet.

China does not have friends - they only have 'partners'

[darmstadt]

Despite Brexit, the UK will always have a friend in Beijing, says Xu Jin, a minister at China's embassy in London. "The British should not worry about China not being your friend after Brexit," he tells a conference.

Still no WW3 yet.

But last year:

Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Britain he backs a strong and united European Union in his biggest public intervention on the subject to date. It comes ahead of a referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the bloc.
On the final day of Xi’s UK state tour, China’s Foreign Ministry released a statement expressing the nation’s interest in building stronger economic ties with a unified EU.

And just after the vote:

Publicly, China has lamented Britain’s decision to walk out on the EU. “A lose-lose situation is already emerging,” the Global Times, a Communist party controlled tabloid, argued after last Thursday's vote.
But Tsang said there was a definite silver lining for Xi's increasingly authoritarian China, “[and] it won’t have taken them more than 30 seconds to realise”.
“The referendum shows that democracy really sucks – that democracy does not deliver stability, prosperity [or] responsible government,” Tsang said.
“The first priority of the Communist party and of Xi Jinping is the perpetuation of the Communist party’s rule in China. They are fundamentally anti-democratic … And what better illustration of how democracy doesn’t work than to have the oldest, most respected democracy – through a democratic process – get itself into arguably, potentially the biggest mess that the UK has self-generated since the second world war? It is a gift.”

Maybe they're just looking at buying the UK and incorporating it as their own, soon won't be much difference once May is PM

[LondonManc]

Maybe they're just looking at buying the UK and incorporating it as their own, soon won't be much difference once May is PM

Sounds like they want Komrade Korbyn.

[GB9]

But last year:



And just after the vote:



Maybe they're just looking at buying the UK and incorporating it as their own, soon won't be much difference once May is PM

Who is Tsang?

[WTFH]

Who is Tsang?

He used to be Tsing. Boy, he knew how to Tsing a Tsong.

[GB9]

Clutching at straws I see.

If you look closely at that "deal", we pay Boeing 3 billion and they set up a 100 million maintenance facility in the UK.

They "expect" to create 2000 new jobs.
No doubt that's what they said when they were waiting to get 3 billion from us.
Personally I call that a mugging not a deal.

And we get some free planes and a couple of helicopters into the bargain.

And they make them here rather than in the EU and exporting them.

Sounds like a win win.

An improvement on the idiot Branson who said he had cancelled a plan that would have created 3,000 jobs he'd never mentioned previously.