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, I used to contract out to many, then the work just
dried up as they were sold off to companies from France, Germany, Holland,
Belgium, etc., 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.