{"id":17471,"date":"2019-03-06T11:53:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17471"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:11","slug":"no-deal-brexit-carmaker-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17471","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Brexit Russian roulette&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>No deal Brexit fantasists need to wake up to carmakers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Brexit warnings or risk catastrophic damage to the jewel in the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manufacturing crown Unite\u00c2\u00a0on Tuesday (March 5).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The call came amid warnings from BMW that it could shift production of the Mini and engine work to Europe in the event of a no deal Brexit. Separately Didier Leroy, chairman of Toyota&#8217;s European operations, said a no-deal outcome to EU withdrawal talks would be \u00e2\u20ac\u015bterrible\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 and would create \u00e2\u20ac\u015bbig additional challenges\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 to Toyota\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s UK operations&#8217; competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PSA boss Carlos Tavares meanwhile told ITV News that investment in Vauxhall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ellesmere Port plant is on hold until the outcome of Brexit is decided.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBMW, Toyota, Vauxhall and other car makers are deadly serious in their warnings as they instigate contingencies to deal with a hard Brexit,&#8221; said Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bGovernment ministers and \u00e2\u20ac\u0098no deal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 fantasists need to wake up to those warnings and the catastrophic damage that a no deal Brexit will do to the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world class car industry and the supply chain companies it supports,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHundreds of thousands of livelihoods in manufacturing communities across the UK are being imperilled by the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Brexit Russian roulette which could result in the iconic Mini joining the Honda Civic in being produced overseas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMinisters and MPs must stop gambling with the futures of UK workers and their families.\u00c2\u00a0They now must do what is best for the country by taking a no deal, hard Brexit off the table and securing tariff-free, frictionless trade with Europe through a permanent customs union.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No deal Brexit fantasists need to wake up to carmakers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Brexit warnings or risk catastrophic damage to the jewel in the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manufacturing crown Unite\u00c2\u00a0on Tuesday (March 5). &nbsp; The call came amid warnings from BMW that it could shift production of the Mini and engine work to Europe in the event of a no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[230,486,386],"wps_subtitle":"Unite calls for no deal to be ruled out amid latest carmaker warnings","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25472,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471\/revisions\/25472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}