BREXIT PLAN’S A CAR WRECK PM’s Tory critics put 3,500 Toyota workers ‘at risk’
MORE than 3,500 British jobs at Toyota are being put at risk by Tory Brexiteers, a Cabinet minister warned yesterday.
Business Secretary Greg Clark said workers could be made redundant if Theresa May is forced to ditch her preferred customs plan.
The PM’s proposed new “customs partnership” with the EU is fiercely opposed by top pro-Brexit figures.
But Mr Clark warned that a failure to keep a frictionless border with Europe would hit firms such as Toyota, who rely on a smooth flow of goods and delay-free deliveries. He told BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show: “They are making a big decision about where the next plant should be in Europe. We have a very successful one in Deeside in North Wales, but there are choices as to whether that should be located on the Conti- nent. Between that plant and the plant in Burnaston in Derbyshire, there are 3,500 people employed.” Mr Clark stressed that the PM’s preferred option of a partnership is still on the table – and that without some deal thousands of jobs in manufacturing could be lost. Opponents of a partnership, including Brexit Secretary David Davis and senior backbencher Jacob ReesMogg, argue it will restrict trade and effectively keep Britain in the EU.
FANATICAL Brextremists reveal the totalitarian intolerance of closed ideological minds with their sneering contempt for Parliamentary sovereignty.
The more this obsessive gang screams “saboteurs”, the louder we hear the desperation of a militant sect terrified at the unravelling of their lies.
Increasingly hysterical attacks on MPs and Peers challenging Brexit baloney betray the zealots’ hollow confidence.
So many shocking porkies were shouted in a dispiriting referendum dominated by two rival right-wing juntas – Remain’s despicable duo of David Cameron and George Osborne alongside slippery Leavers Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.
But the fattest fib of all wasn’t £350million for the NHS, an immediate recession or racist “Breaking Point” scares on the day Labour MP Jo Cox was killed by a Nazi-worshipping terrorist. It was that Brexit would be effortless, a trouble-free stroll from across the Channel to spread prosperity and the return to a pithhelmeted Empire era.
Trade Secretary Liam Fox’s “easiest in human history” trade deal with the rest of Europe is an expensive nightmare, with Business Secretary Greg Clark warning yesterday that 3,500 Toyota jobs are at risk. The closer the clock ticks to deadlines, the scarier the Brextremists who are prepared to lay down manufacturing in areas such as North East England and the West Midlands. For this elite, Brexit is a blind compulsion to reshape Britain as a deregulated, devil-takethe-hindmost Treasure Island for the globe’s footloose fattest cats. We’ve voted to leave Europe and their hatred of Parliament deciding where we go to is the smack of tinpot tyranny, not a love of democracy. Taking back control for these Brextremists is ruling supreme, sidelining opponents dismissed as heretics. Jeremy Corbyn has a golden opportunity to rediscover his boldness by championing Parliament rather than treading a Third Way to nowhere between Quitters and Stayers. Who is afraid of a sovereign Parliament? Intolerant Brextremists.