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Suntan Sid wrote: | mpd72 wrote: | Does the UK export or import more Phillips goods? |
Quote: | The Amsterdam-based group employs about 1,500 people in Britain, most notably at its factory at Glemsford in Suffolk making baby care products for export. |
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I'll ask again Trigger...
Does the UK export or import more Phillips goods? Think for a minute, what difference that might make if we left the single market and all their production was outside of the UK.
Try thinking before commenting further. If we leave the single market and production is moved out of the UK, all Phillips goods bought in the UK, not just medical equipment, will carry an import tariff, making them less competitive compared to white goods made here.
They'd be nuts not to move production of UK destined goods from the EU to here, even if the current plant produces mainly exports. I can't see which bit of this you cant grasp.
Try looking at the positives rather than reeling out the project fear shite from the Guardian.
We're a net importer from the EU. Once free trade has gone, they'll need to make stuff here, not in Poland. $$$$.
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Posted: 22:47 - 10 Jul 2018 Post subject: |
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For someone who can't even Spell the name of the company we're talking about correctly, (it's one "L" not two), please explain why Philips Group would give a toss about the UK, when most of what they make in the UK is for export and their sales in the UK are a tiny fraction of their worldwide sales!
In your original, indignant, post about Philips group, not one single thing you wrote was true, (par for the course), and apparently it's me who falls for propaganda.
From the horses mouth:-
Quote: | Philips spokesman Steve Klink said he was “deeply concerned” about the competitiveness of the company’s UK manufacturing operations, which are primarily focused on export from the UK. “Take our factory for baby care products in the UK,” he said. “Already today, our costs are negatively impacted by the volatility of the British pound.
“Moreover, for its UK exports, Philips relies on the single customs union, as well as current European Free Trade Agreements and EU product certifications.
“We estimate that the cost of the exported products will increase substantially under any scenario that is not maintaining the single customs union.
“We estimate the additional costs to be in the order of high-single-digits as a percentage of sales.
“This is a serious threat to the competitiveness of this factory, so we need to prepare for a broad range of scenarios, including a worst case scenario in case of a ‘hard’ Brexit.” |
But that's just propaganda, according to you.
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God Emperor President Donald Trump talks of UK 'turmoil' ahead of visit
The UK is in "turmoil" and "it is up to the people" whether Theresa May stays as prime minister, Donald Trump has said ahead of his first visit to the country as US President.
Mr Trump told reporters before leaving Washington there were "a lot of things going on" in the UK at the moment.
He said he got on well with Mrs May and had "always liked" Boris Johnson, who quit as foreign secretary on Monday.
Mr Trump arrives on Thursday after attending the Nato summit.
The US President is set to arrive in the UK on the same day as the government publishes its White Paper setting out in more detail Mrs May's controversial offer to the EU on future relations after Brexit.
Both Mr Johnson and former Brexit Secretary David Davis, who has also quit, have expressed fears it will tie the UK too closely to the EU and make it harder to do trade deals with countries like the US.
The US president has previously expressed sympathy for Brexit and said he wanted to do a quick trade deal with the UK once it leaves the EU - which is due to take place on 29 March 2019.
Asked about his forthcoming visit, Mr Trump referred to the turbulence of the past 48 hours, which has prompted speculation about Theresa May's future as leader.
"It is going to be an interesting time in the UK and an interesting time at Nato," he told reporters on the lawn of the White House.
"We will work it out and all countries will be happy.
"So I have Nato, I have the UK - that's a situation with turmoil."
Mr Trump, who has called on other Nato members to pay more for their own defence, joked that his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday "may be the easiest of all".
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Suntan Sid wrote: | Still ignoring the question |
I'll ask again Trigger...
Does the UK export or import more Phillips goods? Think for a minute, what difference that might make if we left the single market and all their production was outside of the UK.
FFS! This isn't rocket science. Whilst leaving the single market will effect their exports to the EU from the UK, it will ALSO effect their imports from the EU to the UK.
Producing in the UK may also improve their competitiveness with the rest of the world as we have more chance of sorting out trade deals with the worlds biggest economies than the EU trading bloc has the desire to do
One more time....
Does the UK export or import more Phillips goods?
You know the answer, you're just to stubborn to admit you're wrong.
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Quote: | MINISTERS have drawn up secret plans to stockpile processed food in the event of EU divorce talks collapsing - to show Brussels that “no deal” is not a bluff. |
Don't tell them, Pike!
If this preparation-for-preparation had begun before we triggered Article 50 and started, uh, negotiating with the EU, then fair enough.
But bluffing about bluffing now, after we've already handed the EU a blank cheque, the terms of our abject surrender, and asked them what else they'd like? Pffft. It's rather silly.
Of course we should do it. I suspect that Raab will even draw up plans to do so, and they'll be strong and stable plans. But I can't see them being translated into action, in case it antagonises the Franco-Prussians. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Quote: | Philips spokesman Steve Klink said he was “deeply concerned” about the competitiveness of the company’s UK manufacturing operations, which are primarily focused on export from the UK. “Take our factory for baby care products in the UK,” he said. “Already today, our costs are negatively impacted by the volatility of the British pound...................................................................“This is a serious threat to the competitiveness of this factory, so we need to prepare for a broad range of scenarios, including a worst case scenario in case of a ‘hard’ Brexit.” |
There it is in large, black, letters, from a Philips Group employee!
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Merkel says Germany is free to make independent decisions. Have they left the EU too then?
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Suntan Sid wrote: | Quote: | Philips spokesman Steve Klink said he was “deeply concerned” about the competitiveness of the company’s UK manufacturing operations, which are primarily focused on export from the UK. “Take our factory for baby care products in the UK,” he said. “Already today, our costs are negatively impacted by the volatility of the British pound...................................................................“This is a serious threat to the competitiveness of this factory, so we need to prepare for a broad range of scenarios, including a worst case scenario in case of a ‘hard’ Brexit.” |
There it is in large, black, letters, from a Philips Group employee!
What do you think, "primarily focused on export from the UK", actually means? |
That you're either too stupid or stubborn to answer the question of whether Philips group import more into the UK than they export from your baby products factory.
I suspect a few others will have spotted this too, by now. ____________________ TZR250 2MA road, TZR250 1KT road, TZR250 2MA race, TDR250, YZF-750R Boost colours.
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Suntan Sid wrote: | Quote: | Philips spokesman Steve Klink said he was “deeply concerned” about the competitiveness of the company’s UK manufacturing operations, which are primarily focused on export from the UK. “Take our factory for baby care products in the UK,” he said. “Already today, our costs are negatively impacted by the volatility of the British pound...................................................................“This is a serious threat to the competitiveness of this factory, so we need to prepare for a broad range of scenarios, including a worst case scenario in case of a ‘hard’ Brexit.” |
There it is in large, black, letters, from a Philips Group employee!
What do you think, "primarily focused on export from the UK", actually means? |
It means that the goods manufacturer in this country are primarily for export.
It also doesn't answer the question of does the UK export more Philips goods than are imported to the UK.
So.
Does the UK export more Philips goods than are imported to the UK?
Are we, the UK, exporting more Philips branded goods than we import? |
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Having said that come Dec 2020 will be the time to panic |
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We need someone like Rees-Mogg in to perform a 1. |
It'd be nice to think so, says a lot of the right things, but whenever he's asked, he just won't commit. I fear his loyalty may well actually lie more with party than country when it comes to the crunch.
Maybe a repeat referendum isn't such a bad idea. I think a lot of people have just tired of the Reverser's project fear, people like Val helping to turn more people away from the EU - I mean, let's face it, if he's the kind of mentality behind it, who would want anything to do with them anymore? It may be that Brexit would get a more resounding vote this time.
And even if the Reversers won, we know that the country is split fairly evenly, so Brexit needn't lose hope for the future. After all, if you can have two referendums, presumably you can have as many as you want, as our Scottish friends are keen to demonstrate.
Or (and I won't be holding my breath on this one), perhaps this Brexit thing, and the general rise of protest-driven nationalism in Europe might cause the EU to truly reform into something more workable for everyone, so it'd be actually worth staying in. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 290 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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