Brexit documentary - Page 5

WHAT THE EU HAS DONE FOR BRITAIN  (One a day just for Stan after accusing me of lying in my previous post).

In 2007 Cadbury built a new £100 million factory in Poland with an EU grant.All production was moved there from their Keynsham Bristol factory in 2011 with the loss of 700 jobs. (As a net contributor,EU grant could read UK taxpayers money)

This happened shortly after Cadbury was acquired by US FMCG giant Kraft. They conducted a full review of operations in the UK as part of the due diligence procedure involved in the take-over & found that the Bristol site had been running at a loss for years & simply wasn't worth keeping, hence the move to Poland.

So the decision was purely economic and was taken in a boardroom somewhere in the US and has precisely nothing to do with the EU.

And surely the fact that the new factory in Poland was part-funded by the EU is actually proof that the EU protects & encourages business growth within the 28 member states and welcomes investment from outside the trading bloc should be lauded, rather than it being viewed as a negative?

Anyway, that's that one debunked.

Next!

LOL. What did the Romans ever do for us? It's a Monty Python replay...... Happy dia San Valantin. V.

I totally agree with you how many of these expats who love the EU will give up their British Passport not very many I expect most want to keep one hand on the rail.

So in 2007 the EU thought it would be a good idea to partly fund the building of a new factory in Poland without expecting production to be transferred there!The fact is Cadbury had made the decision in 2007 to move production to Poland,that's two years before Kraft made their hostile takeover bid.Kraft didn't give a monkeys where the confectionery was manufactured,they just wanted the the Cadbury brand name.In 2011 Kraft closed the Bristol factory just days after the takeover was completed.

So much for due diligence procedure!

Steve, you are correct. However it is also a derogatory term used by those in England to mean the UK. This, for the other nations which make up the UK brings about a feeling akin to that generated as being part of the British Empire. Sovereign nations subjugated by England.

WTF are you burbling on about?

You've just typed a load of pointless nonsense there, none of which refutes the points I've made.

And actually, you could argue that if the decision to move production from the UK to Poland was taken in 2007, it was done by the board of Cadbury whilst they were a "UK" company, so if you're angry at anybody about it, it should be those running the business at the time, not Kraft and certainly not the EU.

Put that drink down...

Let’s all be honest the reason Cadbury Rover etc build factories abroad is the same reason most Eastern Block countries are members of the EU Abundance of cheap Labour keep wages down and more profits for owners no other reason they are members.definately not for their skills.

When referring to the use of the term "England" to describe the UK as a whole, I was referring to the use of it by people from non UK countries, especially the USA, where the use of the word England is not derogatory, or certainly not intended as derogatory to the population of the UK as a whole. I'm not sure how it came into parlance but I do know the users are simply repeating a word they have come to believe when spoken describes the whole of the UK. (Curiously another example of this is where we might say "people who live in America", or "Americans" a casual but mistaken description intended to describe the population of the USA)

I do agree that use of the word "England" when used by someone English (to describe the UK) could be seen as derogatory. But I have rarely if ever heard that. 

Steve

Education

Roads

Sanitation

Order

..........So, apart from education, roads, sanitation and order, what have the Romans ever done for us!!!

Signed.

Leader of the People's Front of Judea

(and the Popular Front for the Freedom of Judea)

...and the Judeans' Peoples Front