Reply to: The first sizeable deal of the new era?

[WTFH]

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.

Not quite.
Here's the story from November last year...
Boeing the big winner out of UK defence review - Telegraph

The facility is for service & maintenance, not manufacturing of the planes. Although the windscreens of the aircraft are made in the UK, so yay for us.
The planes are made in Washington, US.

[CretinWatcher]

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.

No they don't.
HTH, BIKIW as you're TAM.

[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.

[WTFH]

Who is Tsang?

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

[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?

[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.

[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

[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'

[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]

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

[BlasterBates]

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

[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.

[DaveB]

That's a good sign for Post-Brexiteers and another weakening in the argument of those who wanted to Remain.

Not really, Boeing are a US company. The deal was going to happen regardless of the EU result.

Now if we are paying in $ it's going to cost us more after the £ tanked on the Exit vote.

[VectraMan]

That's a good sign for Post-Brexiteers and another weakening in the argument of those who wanted to Remain.

I thought these sorts of deals were impossible in the EU. Isn't that what the Brexiteers have been telling us all these months?

It would still have been better if we'd had these sorts of deals AND stayed in the EU.

[GB9]

I wonder what the BIK is on a Dreamliner. I can never remember the rates on Boeing, Airbus are far easier to work out. My A320 is £450, but when I go for a spin in my A380 it's only £400 due to the more efficient engines

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