Donald Tusk dreams UK will stay in the EU

[MrMarkyMark]

Translation: He needs our cash, Juncker's just placed another bulk deal with his wine merchant...

Cheers!

[Mordac]

True enough. Until Ford got the loan there was no evidence, only rumours that the factory at Southampton was closing. Consequences. It was making money, supporting a local economy.

Yes, as Darmy says it was probably a complete coincidence. The real question is why the EU should lend a US company the cash to build a factory in a non-EU country? It goes against all of their protectionist agenda. Unless there's another agenda...

[PurpleGorilla]

Yes, as Darmy says it was probably a complete coincidence. The real question is why the EU should lend a US company the cash to build a factory in a non-EU country? It goes against all of their protectionist agenda. Unless there's another agenda...

Raising the standard of Eastern Europe is the way of securing the Cold War legacy.

[Mordac]

Raising the standard of Eastern Europe is the way of securing the Cold War legacy.

Or pissing off the Russians. All coins have two sides...

[darmstadt]

Yes, as Darmy says it was probably a complete coincidence. The real question is why the EU should lend a US company the cash to build a factory in a non-EU country? It goes against all of their protectionist agenda. Unless there's another agenda...

Oooh, snowflake conspiracy theories, any more?

You know it was actually the EIB (albeit an EU institution of which the major shareholders are the EU countries, including the UK which along with 3 others are the largest shareholders) and the fact it was a loan which has to be repaid and was for Ford to enlarge the factory making Transits which they done in Turkey since 2003. Maybe other banks in the UK shouldn't make loans to foreign companies...

More on that Ford loan (note: not a grant as the eurosceptics would have everyone believe) here: Focus on Ford: The £80m EU loan for Ford's Turkish Transit plant (From Daily Echo)

And then again: European Investment Bank loan of GBP 340 million for Jaguar Land Rover

Which is being hailed as a British success in light of Brexit...and there's quite a few more of these stories out there....

[AtW]

Or pissing off the Russians. All coins have two sides...

Win win in this case

[Lost It]

There's been talk of Jaguar opening a plant in the East for years now...

[Lost It]

Yes, as Darmy says it was probably a complete coincidence. The real question is why the EU should lend a US company the cash to build a factory in a non-EU country? It goes against all of their protectionist agenda. Unless there's another agenda...

I don't believe in coincidences, I do know the staff at the Transit plant were well paid, I also know that at one time the Transit was the most popular van sold in the UK. Not so much now. Bit of a Home goal in that respect.

I mean, they were never a "quality" vehicle, the new ones I hear from trades of daft things going wrong, door panels coming off, gearboxes failing, door locks failing, which might be a consequence of them stopping being a box with a steering wheel that has some handy storage in the back, but they certainly don't hold as much kit as they used to.

[original PM]

Oi Fritz, we have been doing laws since way before you were born.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...als-May-Brexit