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turbinetree

(24,688 posts)
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 10:16 AM Mar 2019

More Japanese companies could leave UK over Brexit: ambassador

Source: Reuters

Business News
March 4, 2019 / 8:53 AM / Updated 16 minutes ago

LONDON (Reuters) - More Japanese companies could relocate away from Britain in the coming months if the uncertainty around Brexit does not lift, the country’s ambassador to Britain has told Sky News.

Koji Tsuruoka said many of Japan’s 1,000 or so UK-based companies were now considering how to adapt to life after Brexit, but they needed to know how Britain will trade with the European Union in the future in order to make decisions.

“Most of these companies would like to expand their capacity. But they need to know about the UK-EU economic relationship,” he said.

“These are all global companies and therefore they have other possibilities other than staying.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-japan/more-japanese-companies-could-leave-uk-over-brexit-ambassador-idUSKCN1QL1DT?il=0



Not to worry, May has a plan B to give communities 1.6 billion to offset job losses from taxpayers...................for companies pulling out or re-thinking there business plans in the country.........................what a "clusterfuck"

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More Japanese companies could leave UK over Brexit: ambassador (Original Post) turbinetree Mar 2019 OP
All because they're too proud to admit they made a biblical mistake Blue_Tires Mar 2019 #1
+1000 Kind of Blue Mar 2019 #2
they could but it appears as if they choose to continue to smash the round peg into the square hole Javaman Mar 2019 #3

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
1. All because they're too proud to admit they made a biblical mistake
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 10:41 AM
Mar 2019

They could reverse this whole fiasco tomorrow if they really wanted to.

Javaman

(62,510 posts)
3. they could but it appears as if they choose to continue to smash the round peg into the square hole
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 11:53 AM
Mar 2019

"Damn it! This bloody thing should fit! I'm make it fit!"

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