The #automotive industry has not been quiet about declining petrol or diesel sales, nor has it been quiet about the desperate need to decarbonise or the challenge of doing so at the speed required. https://twitter.com/johnredwood/status/1331135720610783233
The #automotive industry is very vocal, & if senior politicians haven't heard what it is saying, one has to assume that those politicians are making a conscious choice not to listen.
UK #automotive is living through a tech revolution. Huge opportunities come from this. But if Britain is to reap the enormous benefit of the green transformation, and new advances in digital tech, govt. has to back the automotive sector.
And backing the #automotive sector means ensuring it is not subject to crippling tariffs, and that it has preferential access to the biggest market in the world, the EU.
A UK/EU #trade deal is an absolute must for the #automotive sector, an absolute must for the 180,000 employed in auto manufacturing & the 864,000 employed across the whole sector, an absolute must for the communities across the UK that rely on automotive for their prosperity.
So when #automotive points out that no-deal will have a hugely damaging effect, they do so, no because they are engaged in project fear, but because they understand how the world works, & care about jobs & prosperity in the UK. Can the same be said of some of these politicians?
Those politicians who want the UK to end the yr without a deal know that they are gambling, but they are gambling with someone else's job, someone else's business, someone else's livelihood. They will be amune from the consequences of no-deal & they know it.
So when they dismiss concerns as project fear they are trying to distract & tap into the loyalty of the leave tribe by evoking the messages use into 2016. What they want, what they have always wanted, is for us to buy the product without ever looking at the price.
Consequently, they will always try to dismiss those who point to the price tag, including the #automotive sector. But keep in mind what one Brexit supporting MP said to me when I set out the risks a no-deal posed to his constituents employed in the automotive sector...
…"The tree of revolution must be watered with the blood of martyrs".
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