Intel not considering UK chip factory

[vetran]

Reason number two is that education standards are higher in Ireland.
Reason number three is that Ireland is in the EU.

Strange most of the senior workers on the Dublin fab I met were English - maybe it was equal opportunities at work?

[WTFH]

Strange most of the senior workers on the Dublin fab I met were English - maybe it was equal opportunities at work?

Maybe they had freedom of movement and could get cheap labour from the UK.

[ladymuck]

Strange most of the senior workers on the Dublin fab I met were English - maybe it was equal opportunities at work?

Not sure how that's relevant? The location of the factory is what's being discussed, and is what governments like to willy wave about. Whether they hire English, Irish, Indian, Peruvian workers is irrelevant.

[vetran]

Maybe they had freedom of movement and could get cheap labour from the UK.

it was 25 years ago so a bit before cheap Polish plumbers