Reply to: Jaguar and Land Rover saying Tata

[Diver]

All the production will be moved offshore and the almost completed units will just have the seats fitted in the UK. Just like most other made in UK cars.

Bypasses tariffs etc.

Costs will be cut, and the assembly line will be staffed by highly skilled migrants on visas defecting from the NHS for the 10p an hour over the NMW that the new owners will be paying.

Hopefully they will tulip it up and some UK chaps will buy it for a quid, asset strip it and then go bust. Oh sorry that has already happened.


cynical moi?

Moi

[vetran]

No it will be seat fitting

All the production will be moved offshore and the almost completed units will just have the seats fitted in the UK. Just like most other made in UK cars.

Bypasses tariffs etc.

Costs will be cut, and the assembly line will be staffed by highly skilled migrants on visas defecting from the NHS for the 10p an hour over the NMW that the new owners will be paying.

Hopefully they will tulip it up and some UK chaps will buy it for a quid, asset strip it and then go bust. Oh sorry that has already happened.


cynical moi?

[Spacecadet]

Anyone seen any reasonable predictions of what the UK will be like work wise in 10-20 years?

Labour laws will be scrapped to make us competitive, at which point india and china will start outsourcing all of their really crap jobs to us, cause we're cheaper.

[AtW]

I'm not saying that Tata would be a bad thing for the workers at all. I'm GLAD that these people have had the reassurance that their future is safe.

Their future is not safe. Do you really think that promise is worth the paper it was written on? Low cost manufacturers like Tata won't be buying something to pay high British wages.

[PRC1964]

10 - 20 years? Look now at any UK airport on Monday morning. Loads of Brits on their way to where the work is. You don't see the corresponding thing in Frankfurt, Zurich, Brussels or Schipol.

The government would claim that as a good thing. It shows that we have a flexible work force.

It's an extension or Tebbit and his "On yer bike" comment.

[Mr Crosby]

You can wave Tata to quality then.

They have never had any, I had Both Disco's and Freelanders from new and the build quality is appalling.

[expat]

Anyone seen any reasonable predictions of what the UK will be like work wise in 10-20 years?

10 - 20 years? Look now at any UK airport on Monday morning. Loads of Brits on their way to where the work is. You don't see the corresponding thing in Frankfurt, Zurich, Brussels or Schipol.

[PAH]

They've already announced their new model.

http://www.b3tards.com/u/976e0482d5f...847/jaguar.jpg

If they're cheaper than the rip-off black cabs then it may not be a bad thing!

[PRC1964]

They've already announced their new model.

http://www.b3tards.com/u/976e0482d5f...847/jaguar.jpg

[KathyWoolfe]

Anyone seen any reasonable predictions of what the UK will be like work wise in 10-20 years?

Not seen predictions for 10-20 years but I guess there will come a time when roles will be reversed and British companies off-shoring parts of their business will find that the Indians are off-shoring back to the UK!

Anyway I'm rapidly losing interest in work.

[KathyWoolfe]

So now that the british car industry has collapsed and the british government has washed their hands of any responsibility for these workers... you're now saying that Tata could be a bad thing for these workers?

How about concentrating on how the british f**ked up their own motor industries.

I'm not saying that Tata would be a bad thing for the workers at all. I'm GLAD that these people have had the reassurance that their future is safe.

All I'm saying is that the promise by Tata to retain British production etc isn't necessarily worth the paper it's printed on.

[PAH]

Why? Cos we don't need one. We just need "The City" and house prices to go up forever and there's no need to make or do anything.

HTH

Yeah, we've moved from a manufacturing nation to a service providing one. Shame the commies in China, and the rest of Asia are slowly stealing the service industry through exploitation and slavery, but while we can still buy our goods cheap from abroad we'll pretend that's not happening.

Anyone seen any reasonable predictions of what the UK will be like work wise in 10-20 years?

[roadster198]

You can wave Tata to quality then.

D I S A P O I N T E D!!!!! thats what I was just going to say

[DimPrawn]

how is that france has got renault, citroen and peugoat

germany has: vw, audi, bmw, mercedes etc

italy has: fiat, alfa etc

yet in britain we have 60 million people and have lost our motor industry ?

Milan.

Why? Cos we don't need one. We just need "The City" and house prices to go up forever and there's no need to make or do anything.

HTH

[oracleslave]

how is that france has got renault, citroen and peugoat

germany has: vw, audi, bmw, mercedes etc

italy has: fiat, alfa etc

yet in britain we have 60 million people and have lost our motor industry ?

Milan.

I blame red ken and the bendy bus.