City leaders plan Ford crisis meeting (From Daily Echo)

Again who actually owns this land?
Maybe the Airport might want it back for expansion or Fords might want to sell it to the highest bidder?
Hopefully it can be kept & a big company looking for a site this size with train,plane & Port access close by plus motorways?

I love the irony of situations like these.

The tory councillor Williams called it “the worst excesses of globalisation”.

This coming from a representative of the party in love with the free-market and capitalism, and opposed to market regulation and nationalised industries.

There's a lot of people out there who profess to be all in favour of capitalism, but don't seem to like its effects much. Can't have it both ways folks.

cantthinkofone wrote:
I love the irony of situations like these.

The tory councillor Williams called it “the worst excesses of globalisation”.

This coming from a representative of the party in love with the free-market and capitalism, and opposed to market regulation and nationalised industries.

There's a lot of people out there who profess to be all in favour of capitalism, but don't seem to like its effects much. Can't have it both ways folks.

Oops. I think it was Richard Williams (Labour) not Phil Williams (Tory).

No matter, the point still stands. Nu Labour are almost as in love with the free market as the Conservatives.

loosehead wrote:
Again who actually owns this land?
Maybe the Airport might want it back for expansion or Fords might want to sell it to the highest bidder?
Hopefully it can be kept & a big company looking for a site this size with train,plane & Port access close by plus motorways?

motorway formed into a underpass beneath the fords site enables a international size runway , just feel sorry for the residents of the area.

Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Morrison. Cemetry!

**sorry, cemetery**

Why do you people always make a mountain out of a molehill Ok a 'few' jobs are going..but you are southies..the government will soon sort it out for you..we in the North..you know..them 'up there'..we are used to these situtions.
Just start to worry if/when Norman Tebbit comes back out of the locker and tells you all to get on your bikes and and LOOK for work.

arthur dalyrimple wrote:

loosehead wrote:
Again who actually owns this land?
Maybe the Airport might want it back for expansion or Fords might want to sell it to the highest bidder?
Hopefully it can be kept & a big company looking for a site this size with train,plane & Port access close by plus motorways?

motorway formed into a underpass beneath the fords site enables a international size runway , just feel sorry for the residents of the area.

Get into the real world..what for ...flying in Transits ??

No one will stop the closure.Just an empty gesture by the council. Plus aload of hot air from local M.P'S WHO DON'T GIVE A ****.The answer to the question: Where did it go wrong ? It went wrong because of broken promises by Ford management and it wet wrong because Ford hire cheap labour to build the transit in Turkey. What they don't tell you is that the factory is heavily subsidised by the Turkish government. Don't blame the workers blame Ford management.A bunch of liars.

"City leaders plan Ford crisis meeting"

My goodness me! This must be the first plan this council has ever had!!!

I have the feeling that Dear Leader Cllr. Williams is trying to get publicity for himself, on the backs of victims of Multi National greed infested Ford, who have already lost their jobs.

Considering under NuLabourite Williams many council workers in Southampton are also going to lose jobs, it is difficult to think of him as saviour of workers.

As he and his party have betrayed Labour values and fallen in love with economic system, which causes misery to working people through out the world, how does he think he can solve this serious problem without changing his own philosophy and policies of his Party now inspired by Disreali?

arthur dalyrimple wrote:

loosehead wrote:
Again who actually owns this land?
Maybe the Airport might want it back for expansion or Fords might want to sell it to the highest bidder?
Hopefully it can be kept & a big company looking for a site this size with train,plane & Port access close by plus motorways?

motorway formed into a underpass beneath the fords site enables a international size runway , just feel sorry for the residents of the area.

If you look on google maps you can see that the runway is to the east of the factory so how do you think it will be extended over the factory site?

How many more 'Ford' stories do we have to endure #boredoffords

__KTF__ wrote:

arthur dalyrimple wrote:

loosehead wrote:
Again who actually owns this land?
Maybe the Airport might want it back for expansion or Fords might want to sell it to the highest bidder?
Hopefully it can be kept & a big company looking for a site this size with train,plane & Port access close by plus motorways?

motorway formed into a underpass beneath the fords site enables a international size runway , just feel sorry for the residents of the area.

If you look on google maps you can see that the runway is to the east of the factory so how do you think it will be extended over the factory site?

simples ,new runway ,change the flightpath , motorway underpass,job done , bye bye fords ,hello,international airport.

arthur dalyrimple wrote:

__KTF__ wrote:

arthur dalyrimple wrote:

loosehead wrote:
Again who actually owns this land?
Maybe the Airport might want it back for expansion or Fords might want to sell it to the highest bidder?
Hopefully it can be kept & a big company looking for a site this size with train,plane & Port access close by plus motorways?

motorway formed into a underpass beneath the fords site enables a international size runway , just feel sorry for the residents of the area.

If you look on google maps you can see that the runway is to the east of the factory so how do you think it will be extended over the factory site?

simples ,new runway ,change the flightpath , motorway underpass,job done , bye bye fords ,hello,international airport.

Getting someone to pay for it: Not simples.

First of all I feel very sorry for the people who will suffer from the closure of the Swaythling plant. This will have a profound effect on the economic prosperity of ther area.
However the site is very attractively placed for light industrial development and hopefully this will happen over time just as the old Longbridge site in Birmingham has gradually been redeveloped.
However to place all this in context, the Ford factory in Ghenk has been closed down this week with 4,500 people losing their jobs (from 2014).
GM will shut their factory in Bochum (Germany) in 2016, Peugeot/Citroen will shut their Auriny plant near Paris in 2014.
Belgium has been particularly hard hit with GM closing their Antwerp plant in 2010 following Renault pulling out of Vilvoorde about 10 years ago.
So, whist the pain is significant for this area, it is not unique throughout Europe or, indeed, in the US.
Has anyone been to Detroit these days?

arthur dalyrimple wrote:

loosehead wrote:
Again who actually owns this land?
Maybe the Airport might want it back for expansion or Fords might want to sell it to the highest bidder?
Hopefully it can be kept & a big company looking for a site this size with train,plane & Port access close by plus motorways?

motorway formed into a underpass beneath the fords site enables a international size runway , just feel sorry for the residents of the area.

You would never get the tail of the plane though the underpass, unless you put a dip in the pathway or you build a higher bridge

The Belgium plant as all ready taking action over the closure of there plant, they will get a better deal than they will in here in the UK, because they are to slow in taking action, or are unwilling to, its time (well long gone pass the time) for the Unions to start harden up and stop being soft over matters, token strikes do not work, this is a Eurpian matter so the Unions need to use EU laws and go out and start fighting.

I had assumed that employers like Ford were the ones that would be the ones that would be employing those that Cameron&Co were sacking in the Public sector.

Could it possibly be that Dodgy Dave made a miscalculation?

Time to get rid of the money men, the bosses, the type of economics and political policy, time for change and change for the better, we need to think about sharing, we need to think about a Resoure Economy and Political Policy, or is a Resource Economy to Socialist for the Greedy people of our world who just want to keep on grabbing.
We ready do need to change before its to late and the Capitalist take us into World War 3, because that is where they are leading us to now, the first shots have all ready been fired.

southy wrote:

arthur dalyrimple wrote:

loosehead wrote:
Again who actually owns this land?
Maybe the Airport might want it back for expansion or Fords might want to sell it to the highest bidder?
Hopefully it can be kept & a big company looking for a site this size with train,plane & Port access close by plus motorways?

motorway formed into a underpass beneath the fords site enables a international size runway , just feel sorry for the residents of the area.

You would never get the tail of the plane though the underpass, unless you put a dip in the pathway or you build a higher bridge

you misunderstand ,the cars go through the underpass tunell dug deep,the runway goes over the top , simple concept and no need for heathrow 3 ,i bet i,m not a million miles away.

arthur dalyrimple wrote:

southy wrote:

arthur dalyrimple wrote:

loosehead wrote:
Again who actually owns this land?
Maybe the Airport might want it back for expansion or Fords might want to sell it to the highest bidder?
Hopefully it can be kept & a big company looking for a site this size with train,plane & Port access close by plus motorways?

motorway formed into a underpass beneath the fords site enables a international size runway , just feel sorry for the residents of the area.

You would never get the tail of the plane though the underpass, unless you put a dip in the pathway or you build a higher bridge

you misunderstand ,the cars go through the underpass tunell dug deep,the runway goes over the top , simple concept and no need for heathrow 3 ,i bet i,m not a million miles away.

that would be subject to flooding,subject to the ground water table, unlike Heathrow area has a reasonable low ground water table, not so in this area as a whole.

southy wrote:
The Belgium plant as all ready taking action over the closure of there plant, they will get a better deal than they will in here in the UK, because they are to slow in taking action, or are unwilling to, its time (well long gone pass the time) for the Unions to start harden up and stop being soft over matters, token strikes do not work, this is a Eurpian matter so the Unions need to use EU laws and go out and start fighting.

southy
You do talk some drivel when you go up into the big school you will learn how the world works, until then i suggest you do a bit more reading and a little less writing.

ohec wrote:

southy wrote:
The Belgium plant as all ready taking action over the closure of there plant, they will get a better deal than they will in here in the UK, because they are to slow in taking action, or are unwilling to, its time (well long gone pass the time) for the Unions to start harden up and stop being soft over matters, token strikes do not work, this is a Eurpian matter so the Unions need to use EU laws and go out and start fighting.

southy
You do talk some drivel when you go up into the big school you will learn how the world works, until then i suggest you do a bit more reading and a little less writing.

Perhaps the Union could try taking a bit of responsibility and using its vast wealth to buy the production facility, and the soon-to-be-unemploye
d could back up the Union by investing their redundancy money in the venture. Sadly things look quite different when the money at risk doesn't belong to an overseas corporation and you realise that things going pear shaped are no longer another persons problem and can't be walked away from.