[BITList] a list of some of the reasons many voted out of Europe.

[FA]

Worth a read sounds familiar
Frank

Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant.

Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant.

Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia 
with EU grant, 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 grant.

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 
grant, rather than Wales.

Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan.

Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone to Poland with EU 
grant, once employed 1,200.

M&S manufacturing gone to far east with EU loan.

Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along 
with the patents all with with EU grants.

Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant.

Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant.

Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant.

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 an EU loan 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.

39% of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, 
many of them in the EU 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., in the UK. The bicycle for the 
Greens was made in the far east, not by Raleigh UK but then they are 
probably going to move to the Netherlands too as they have said recently.

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. Name me one major technology company still 
running in the UK,., and now we don't even teach electronic technology 
for technicians any more, due to EU regulations.

I haven't detailed our non-existent fishing industry the EU paid to 
destroy, nor the farmers being paid NOT to produce food they could sell 
for more than they get paid to do nothing, don't even go there.

I haven't mentioned what it costs us to be asset-stripped like this, nor 
have I mentioned immigration, nor the risk to our security if control of 
our armed forces is passed to Brussels or Germany.

Find something that's gone the other way, I've looked and I just can't. 
If you think the EU is a good idea,

1/ You haven't read the party manifesto of The European Peoples' Party.

2/ You haven't had to deal with EU petty bureaucracy tearing your 
business down.

3/ You don't think it matters.


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