Verified a lot of this viral post. Deleted everything I couldn’t confirm. Sources at bottom:
“”Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU loan.
Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU support, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds.
Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU support
British Army’s new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU support, rather than Britain.
Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU support.
Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding.
Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing.
ICI integration into Holland’s AkzoNobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs
Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80 million a year, using EU finance for the purchase.
JDS Uniphase run by two Dutch men, bought up companies in the UK with £20 million in EU ‘regeneration’ grants, created a pollution nightmare and just closed it all down leaving 1,200 out of work and an environmental clean-up paid for by the UK tax-payer. They also raided the pension fund and drained it dry.
UK airports are owned by a Spanish company.
Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company.
Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies.
The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built by French company EDF, part owned by the French government, using cheap Chinese steel that has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations. Now EDF say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online.
Swindon was once our producer of rail locomotives and rolling stock. Not any more, it’s Bombardier in Derby and due to their losses in the aviation market, that could see the end of the British railways manufacturing altogether even though Bombardier had EU grants to keep Derby going which they diverted to their loss-making aviation side in Canada.
The Mini cars that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria. His campaign bus was made in Germany even though we have Plaxton, Optare, Bluebird, Dennis etc.
Then there is the betrayal of Britain’s fishing to the European Union and now Spanish fishing fleets are over fishing our fishing grounds.
Then we had black Wednesday…….Black Wednesday occurred in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1992, when John Major’s Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM. In 1997, the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.4 billion.
How about the butter mountain……..people should research that.
Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn’t paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK.
Only 23% of the nation voted to remain in the EU”
Writers’ note: “The facts are bad enough. What’s freaking me out is just how many pro EU blogs are “debunking” it – they come up every time I’m researching.
It’s weird.”
sources:
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/anger-cadbury-makes-dairy-milk-12457521http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10026411.Focus_on_Ford__The___80m_EU_loan_for_Ford_s_Turkish_Transit_plant/
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/grant-jaguar-land-rovers-slovakian-13124138
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/look-peugeots-ryton-factory-closed-12298655
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-armys-new-fighting-vehicles-7928358 https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/defence_en
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-1521620/Dyson-accused-of-betrayal.html
https://www.ft.com/content/74ab02a6-fd85-11df-a049-00144feab49a
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/indesit-bodelwyddan-close-loss-300-2793347
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/23-evocative-pictures-merthyrs-hoover-8524442
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268112/German-rail-group-1-6bn-takeover-British-bus-rail-firm-Arriva.html
https://www.lovemoney.com/guides/22318/who-owns-british-gas-sse-npower-and-the-rest-of-the-uks-big-energy-companies
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