redgauntlet
Striker
Tell you what, no government that initiates it will ever tell us the total cost of brexit. The I.T. bill alone runs into billions, likewise the legal bill, the bill for customs, harbours and ports, all to save the mega rich paying tax. Absolute madness.I agree with that point totally. We have been performing well economically and Nissan has been a saviour for this region - Brexit simply puts totally unnecessary hurdles in the way for us to prosper, for no gain in my view. However, I don't see a Renault/Nissan merger as a threat to Nissan Sunderland - Nissan Sunderland will remain open as long as it is internally competitive. In the event of tariffs the UK Government may have to offset the effect of those tariffs - this may annoy people but the cost of 40,000 jobs is way too high for this region to take.
Fair do's. Similarly I worked for a Korean company which moved because it could make more profits in Poland. However, Nissan Sunderland has had the same pressures over the last 34 years and grown and grown. Having worked at Nissan when the Renault alliance started - when they both took a stake in each others company I can't see why a full merger would affect Sunderland - I remember Nissan shutting Japanese factories and keeping Sunderland open because it is so good at what it does - it still leads the world - it has ex-Sunderland people running factories in South Africa, France and the US to my knowledge. It really is a key site. However, if tariffs were introduced and Sunderland had to increase its prices or reduce its profits then it would be under threat because it would not be able to compete internally. Internal competition has driven Nissan from a company teetering on the bring of extinction to a massively successful company that it is today - its not going to change that.