The EU Asset Stripping of the UK

In the six years prior to the UK joining the EU back in 1973 this country ran a trading surplus with Europe. In the 40 years since we joined we have ran a trading deficit with them. If the remain camps case held any water we should by  now have massively increased that prior trade surplus. The exact complete opposite has been the case this last 40 years they run a surplus trading with us instead and here is one of the main reasons why.

When we hear how the EU is good for British industry... we quote the farmers and the fishing industry as examples. But if you want to see how the EU has de-assembled our industries spare 5 minutes to read the following... The EU have conspired to come and asset strip and weaken the UK.. Heres a sample of how this is still happening. READ ON:

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 EU grant, rather than Wales.

Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant.

Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone to Poland with EU grant, once employed 1,200.

Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan.

Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant.

Gallaghers Tobacco Ballymena  JTI Gallaher a challenging regulatory and operating environment and that it had "fought very hard" against plain packaging and smaller pack ban proposals in the UK. Production moved to Germany

Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant.

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 say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online.

Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing.

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

ICI integration into Holland’s AkzoNobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs
Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80 million a year, using an EU loan for the purchase.

Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant.

Jaguar Land Rover new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds.

JDS Uniphase run by two Dutch men, bought up companies in the UK with £20 million in EU 'regeneration' grants, created a pollution nightmare and just closed it all down leaving 1,200 out of work and an environmental clean-up paid for by the UK tax-payer. They also raided the pension fund and drained it dry.

London buses are mostly run by Spanish and German companies.

M&S manufacturing gone to far east with EU loan

Mini cars are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering . 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

Michelin Ballymena tyre factory due to the "significant downturn" in demand for truck tyres in Europe since the financial crisis of 2007

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

Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding.

Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company.

Swindon  rail locomotives and rolling stock. Not any more, it's Bombardier in Derby and due to their losses in the aviation market, that could see the end of the British railways manufacturing altogether even though Bombardier had EU grants to keep Derby going which they diverted to their loss-making aviation side in Canada.

Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant.

UK airports are owned by a Spanish company.

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

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, etc., and now we don't even teach electronic technology for 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.

Find something that's gone the other way, I've looked and I just can't. If you think the EU is a good idea,

1/ You haven't read the party manifesto of The European Peoples' Party.
2/ You haven't had to deal with EU petty bureaucracy tearing your business down.
3/ You havnt head how TTIP will allow US boardrooms to write EU laws