Eu referendum whats your vote

Ford have announced mass redundancies at its Bridgend Engine Plant. Some people and institutions are quick to blame Brexit, (the uncertainty of which doubtless plays a part) whilst disregarding several other circumstances. In 2015, production of engines for Volvo was moved to Volvo’s own plants in Sweden and China. The contract to build engines for Jaguar Land Rover was always scheduled to end next year when JLR begins to produce its own engines at Wolverhampton, bringing the combined production at Bridgend down from 750,000 units per year to 250,000. Despite a £15 million investment from the Welsh government, the company cannot maintain the current workforce on such a reduced workload. JLR’s “problems” in the UK stem more from their over-reliance on the now-demonized diesel engines, (90% of output) and a massive fall of 60% in their largest market, China. Another factor is the recent increase in capacity at their Chinese and Brazilian plants, plus the new factory in Slovakia - all of which, I suspect, pay their employees rather less in real terms than their British counterparts.