EU grants galore

For those who consider the UK has benefitted from its membership of the EU, here is some interesting reading.

This shortlist of financial and industrial developments has been duly sanctioned and supported by the EU, using the UK’s money, despite a negative impact on the UK as a whole. Here are some examples:

Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with an EU grant.

Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with an EU grant.

Jaguar Land Rover recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with an EU grant. It is owned by Tata, the same company that has trashed our steelworks and emptied the workers’ pension funds.

Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with an EU grant.

The 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 an EU grant, rather than Wales. Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan. Crown Closures, Bournemouth (formerly Metal Box), gone to Poland with an EU grant. It once employed 1,200.

M&S manufacturing gone to the Far East with an EU loan.

Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along with the patents, all with EU grants.

Gillette gone to Eastern Europe with an EU grant.

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 says the cost will be double or higher and it will be very late even if it does come online.

Around 39% of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, many in the EU.

The Minis that ex-PM 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, and so forth. And now we don’t even teach electronic technology to 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. All the above information is easily and readily available online.

SIR LANCE RAYONG