The funniest of the funnies.
Carmakers already have plans on how to handle multiple scenarios including delays at ports which would hit a global business model reliant on the swift movement of components, engines and finished models across borders, executives said.
“It costs us two-digit million number of pounds which is absolutely wasted if the one or the other condition is going to happen but at the end of the day we cannot risk the company,” Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Chief Executive Ralf Speth told Reuters at the Geneva Motor Show.
“We are talking about minutes at the borders and if we are out of the minutes, we have huge disadvantages in terms of inventory, logistics and therefore we have to do all this kind of contingency planning now,” said Speth, who heads Britain’s biggest car company.
BMW has said it will be forced to close its production sites in the UK, putting 8,000 jobs at risk, if components for Mini and Rolls-Royce cars are caught up in customs delays after Brexit.
In its starkest warning over Brexit yet, the customs manager of the German carmaker’s UK operations said its manufacturing set-up would not be able to cope with obstructions to its supply chain.
“We always said we can do our best and prepare everything, but if, at the end of the day the supply chain will have a stop at the border, then we cannot produce our products in the UK,” Stephan Freismuth told the Financial Times.
BMW employs 8,000 people in the UK, including 4,500 at its flagship plant in Cowley, Oxford, where it produces the Mini.
More cars and Brexit.
BMW has said it will be forced to close its production sites in the UK, putting 8,000 jobs at risk, if components for Mini and Rolls-Royce cars are caught up in customs delays after Brexit.
In its starkest warning over Brexit yet, the customs manager of the German carmaker’s UK operations said its manufacturing set-up would not be able to cope with obstructions to its supply chain.
“We always said we can do our best and prepare everything, but if, at the end of the day the supply chain will have a stop at the border, then we cannot produce our products in the UK,” Stephan Freismuth told the Financial Times.
BMW employs 8,000 people in the UK, including 4,500 at its flagship plant in Cowley, Oxford, where it produces the Mini.
Slow handclap, Oxford-based Brexiters.
Double D and BoJo OUT! Principled gentlemen doing the honourable thing or bull-shitting charletons realising that the whole Brexit charade is about to collapse? How utterly predictable.
An issue of Maybot's creation.
An issue of Maybot's creation. Who's next?
I suspect BoJo was on the outers, and specifically once he called the plan a turd and being so fundamentally opposed to Maybot's plan. Which is a bureaucratic turd of the highest level.
Get ready for an election Brenda...
The issue has been created because she's taken so darned long to get to this position. We're near the end of the 2 year notice period and only now has Maybot made her mind up, completely disregarding the work David Davis and his team had done, to do something different. The current ish show is of her making.It wasn't an issue of Maybot's creation. A negotiating position had to be agreed, it was going to have to be a compromise as neither side had a decisive majority in the Parliamentary Tory Party. The real issue is that it is 18 months late and we could have been a lot further along in the process if May had done this a lot earlier.
As for BoJo and David Davis if they didn't expect a compromise agreement then they are a bit simple.
Plus a need to head off UKIPs popularity.Well of Cameron's creation initially. The whole sorry mess (and it's a sorry mess whether you are for in or out!) was started by him when he promised a referendum as a way of holding the Tory party together.
The issue has been created because she's taken so darned long to get to this position. We're near the end of the 2 year notice period and only now has Maybot made her mind up, completely disregarding the work David Davis and his team had done, to do something different. The current ish show is of her making.
Plus a need to head off UKIPs popularity.