Post by naymissus on Jul 5, 2011 6:58:35 GMT
The railway olling-stock manufacturing facility in Derby is to close , presumably never to open again, because a contract for Rolling stock for Britai has been lost to the Germans
10,000 jobs will be lost
The real cost of the contract going to the Germans to the British taxpayer is astronomical! Six thousand primary contractors plus (at a guess) five times more secondary suppliers) out of workand on the dole, the total loss of a British industry that has been around for over 100 years with continuing loss of work -simply because the company has gone
Lets work out a hypotherical figure
To keep thirty-thousand people on the dole at at least £15k per annum will cost the taxpayer £45billion per annum. Lets say that is far too high and reduce it to £5billion per annum - a very conservative figurs.If the contract lasts five years, the price of te contract (effectively paid for by the taxpayer) will be Actual cost +£25billion, and this price will astronomically higher than the price quited by the British company.
There once was a time when such contracts, would have automatically been given to a British company if the difference betwen quotes was reasonable.
Of course now the Government can no longer insist on British preference, even when it isobviously in the British interest to go British
The reason is of course the EU, that union that we have never been asked if we wish to belong to it,yet is causing the destruction of a long-standing British company at enormous cost to Britain
10,000 jobs will be lost
The real cost of the contract going to the Germans to the British taxpayer is astronomical! Six thousand primary contractors plus (at a guess) five times more secondary suppliers) out of workand on the dole, the total loss of a British industry that has been around for over 100 years with continuing loss of work -simply because the company has gone
Lets work out a hypotherical figure
To keep thirty-thousand people on the dole at at least £15k per annum will cost the taxpayer £45billion per annum. Lets say that is far too high and reduce it to £5billion per annum - a very conservative figurs.If the contract lasts five years, the price of te contract (effectively paid for by the taxpayer) will be Actual cost +£25billion, and this price will astronomically higher than the price quited by the British company.
There once was a time when such contracts, would have automatically been given to a British company if the difference betwen quotes was reasonable.
Of course now the Government can no longer insist on British preference, even when it isobviously in the British interest to go British
The reason is of course the EU, that union that we have never been asked if we wish to belong to it,yet is causing the destruction of a long-standing British company at enormous cost to Britain