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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
There's an interesting comment made after that article:
"There were only 3 options that could have swayed Nissan's management.
1. The government told them they had no plans to invoke Article 50
2. The government told them that they are going to negotiate a deal to have full access to the single Market.
3. The government told them that they would subsidise Nissan's Brexit costs.
1 was unlikely, 3 would have cost the UK too much, would probably have breached WTO rules and would have opened the floodgates to all the other manufacturers in the same position.
So we now end up with 2. the only affordable option but the one which is truly ludicrous if you are a Brexit supporter. So we negotiate a trade deal with the EU that keeps us in the Single Market and the Customs Union. How hilarious, any immigration controls will be a gloss on the existing arrangements, we will pay for access and we no longer have any say whatsoever in the regulations UK businesses have to comply with to sell into the EU."
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Why do we have to be in the single market to get a trade deal ? Nissan have indicated that they are happy with whatever deal the government are going to go for and must be confident that the government will get it because not only have they announced the continuing production but an extra production line for a new model and on top of that they are extending the plant to build engines .The vast majority of Nissans production is exported to Europe and Nissan knows that Europe do not want to lose that trade .
Really think it's time people started to think beyond single market membership it is not an option and doesn't need to be an option