"Annually Airbus spends around £4 billion with suppliers in the UK, a significant contribution to the UK aerospace industry, which supports around 110,000 high value, highly skilled jobs. "
Brexit, for once some facts.
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.. Peter you have referred on a few occasions to ..". The majority of people" , without evidence and I have not pulled you up on it.
What majority do you refer to?
Is it the miniscule deviation that occured on the referendum?,
Or is it the whole hearted response of the houses of commons and lords which did in fact vote and did give a huge majority to Brexit, on the , in my opinion , mistaken belief that they could re visit it unilaterally if the terms were not acceptable to them.
. However that was in a parliament which no longer exists , and the will of the current parliament has not been tested
So which majority do you refer to? The London one, the Scottish one, the Northern Ireland one, or the Sunderland one?
MPs have defied whips before and will again. I view adherence to a whip structure against ones better judgement as moral cowardice. MPs have presumably taken oathes of office, and are in a privileged position, they have and had a duty to honour them.
By this I infer the one where there was a miniscule majority at the level of noise? Nobody can infer that that was a will of the people or a meaningful majority.
that must make it a UK company?
Actually that figure was more likely to be worldwide try these
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus
UK workforce more like
Broughton, Flintshire, Wales UK 5,031
Bristol (Filton), England UK 4,642
Toulouse
(Toulouse, Colomiers, Blagnac) France 16,992
Hamburg
(Finkenwerder, Stade, Buxtehude) Germany 13,420
Broughton, Flintshire, Wales UK 5,031
Bristol (Filton), England UK 4,642
Bremen Germany 3,330
Madrid (Getafe, Illescas) Spain 2,484
Saint-Nazaire France 2,387
Nordenham Germany 2,086
Nantes France 1,996
Albert (Méaulte) France 1,288
Varel Germany 1,191
Laupheim Germany 1,116
Cadiz (Puerto Real) Spain 448
Washington, D.C. (Herndon, Ashburn) USA 422
Beijing PRC 150
Wichita USA 320
Mobile, Alabama USA 150
Miami (Miami Springs) USA ?
Seville Spain ?
Moscow Russia ?
Tianjin PRC planning
Harbin PRC 1,000 (opening by end-2010)
Bangalore, Karnataka India 1800
Total 56,966+
(Data as of 31 December 2006)
Appreciate that you said 'supports' which probably includes the wider workforce not just AirBus, no doubt the same for Germany and France?
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Having just been on the Airbus site
http://www.aircraft.airbus.com/company/worldwide-presence/airbus-in-uk/
I'll take that earlier lot back, if I can...
http://www.aircraft.airbus.com/company/worldwide-presence/airbus-in-uk/
So you really believe that this miniscule deviation from 50% which a movement of 600,000 out of 36,000,000 voters , and which excluded the 1,200,000 Britons currently living on continental Europe , and who had no opportunity , but a greater likelihood of voting remain, provided a logical reason for this turmoil?
I have no interest, good bad or otherwise in the personalities or politics of UK politicians so I am neither insulted or impressed by the comparison.
You are indeed sounding like Nick Clegg. I really do not think that the UK population ever thought that when we joined the EU it was to become a complete integral part of the EU. That was probably the start of the lie?
There seems to be a habit of this with the INDYRef1 and no doubt INDYRef2 whenever it comes. None of the Exiles where allowed to vote and neither was my wife come to that.
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It's well named for sure.
Not sure why but I was referring to
"Having just been on the Airbus site
Having seen the so called beluga aircraft in the flesh as it were, it is a sight for sore eyes.. I laughed out loud the first time I saw it at Nantes. It looks sort of like an ordinary passenger jet, where someone had pumped lots of compressed air into its belly so that it has expanded like a sausage . It can carry full engines, large sections of fuselage and all sorts of stuff in its belly...
Not sure why but I was referring to
"Having just been on the Airbus site
Having seen the so called beluga aircraft in the flesh as it were, it is a sight for sore eyes.. I laughed out loud the first time I saw it at Nantes. It looks sort of like an ordinary passenger jet, where someone had pumped lots of compressed air into its belly so that it has expanded like a sausage . It can carry full engines, large sections of fuselage and all sorts of stuff in its belly...
The UK Airbus workforce is about 10,000, when you factor in the sub-contractors or companies providing sub assemblies it is that number. The UK has a large aerospace industry, remember the Concorde?
It may seem a little odd that 'The Thunderer' should come out with something resembling a criticism of the tory government but I was tickled by the first response to the article.......I think it might be made-up
Graeme Park Iffint it not got no pitchers in it, then wese Brexiters aint intersted, is we? We get the troof from the Sun and the Daily Mail, don't not need no puffy poncy Times to pull the wool over our eyes.. Ruddy remoaners!!
Ridiculous? Not at all.....the same verbal diarrhoea has been prevalent recently in this thread from the tory, pro-'Brexit' element, albeit with better spelling.
Tom
Graeme Park Iffint it not got no pitchers in it, then wese Brexiters aint intersted, is we? We get the troof from the Sun and the Daily Mail, don't not need no puffy poncy Times to pull the wool over our eyes.. Ruddy remoaners!!
Ridiculous? Not at all.....the same verbal diarrhoea has been prevalent recently in this thread from the tory, pro-'Brexit' element, albeit with better spelling.
Tom
Nobody would welcome a trade war,but Trump clearly started this one,I am sure if you were an employee in Bombardier,N.I remand,you would want our government to respond positively and make Trump/Boeing think twice,300% on every Boeing into the EU,would make Trump think twice.
But what do the UK do...object strongly,yeh !!!!!
So much for Trump giving the UK a 'strong trade deal'.
KudosDave