Time and time again I hear those sycophantic Europhiles spout that the EU has been amaaazing for Britain and the large number of jobs it has created for us. Time and time again I have shown with that amaaazing thing called evidence, proof of jobs lost, skills and sectors never to return such as our fishing industry ( Common Fisheries policy), coal and steel (original coal and steel agreements), manufacturing of trains, cars and other engineering ( euro creating a 20% price devaluation for Germany) etc etc.
However, the rich, wealthy privileged supporters of the EU ( and they are invariably a specific class of people who despise the "poor and unwashed " such as the Oxbridge educated, chianti drinking, Liberal Democrats living in Islington who feel more at home in their holiday homes in Tuscany than they are dealing with "those ghastly English people") who invariably ignore jobs lost when done so by their favourite institution. They even ignore it when the Commission make it clear that they don't actually give a damn about British jobs.
Take Tate and Lyle. A veritable institution of a British business established in Silvertown East London for over a 100 years. The factory is top class, a combination of state of the art technology backed by high end skilled jobs with long tenured employees and offering fantastic traineeships. It provides thousands of tons of sugar and sugar products to the Britsh food industry each week and does so at a competitive price to ensure food inflation does not hurt the pocket of the consumer.
Several years ago based on EU policies it invested in eco friendly systems and developed a business plan to match. It employees around 800 people and was working 7 days a week. Jobs, as I say in a part of London that is desperately in need of such work. However, as I say the EU doesn't care about British jobs and has introduced a ban on Tate and Lyle importing sugar cane from Brazil, South Africa or Thailand ( thus providing work to poor people in those countries) unless Tate and Lyle pay very high tariffs. ( I ask you, where's the free trade here?)
Indeed under questioning from UKIP Agriculture Spokesman, Stuart Agnew, the EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dacian Cioloş did what all EU civil servants do, and blamed Tate and Lyle's own stategy, failing to acknowledge that EU quotas were the instruments changing the supply and price landscape. You can watch the video here.
http://youtu.be/VgfITFWxppk
http://www.ukipmeps.org/index.php?page=articles&op=readArticle&id=352&title=EU-plans-to-dissolve-Tate-%26-Lyles-Mr-Cube
Gerald Mason, Vice President EU Affairs for Tate and Lyle said that the answer was predictable.
"The answer is the predictable one he and his officials give - that their forecasts of cane imports doubling were only that and you cannot hold them to it if they were not subsequently correct. The bit they conveniently miss is that their whole policy was based on this forecast and, in particular, the abolishing of our import quota (the right we had to import cane sugar to run our factory). Their logic was that, with imports doubling, there would be no need any more for an import quota as there would be plenty enough sugar for everybody in Europe who wanted to refine."
Stuart Agnew said to the Commissioner that the EU policy is clearly protectionist to safeguard jobs in Germany and France.
"Your proposal is going to destroy up to 850 jobs in the UK and it will actually transfer them to other EU countries - most unfair - and I'm talking about proposals to cease quotas for sugar beet production by 2015, because this won't be matched by a relaxed quota or the cane sugar refiners, represented in my country by Tate & Lyle. That firm has been a strong player in the UK sugar market all my life; and long before we joined the European Union. It needs more tariff free raw material. It's got to have that to keep its refinery supplied. At the moment it's slowing down; its closing at weekends, its losing its critical mass and it means the costs of refining are becoming uncompetitive and the factory is going to close and you, actually, are the one person in the world who can keep it open. The beneficiaries of your proposal will be the sugar beet industries in France and Germany - not in Britain - because in Britain, we obeyed EU laws and we closed factories three years ago, and those factories cannot be rebuilt by 2015. Tate & Lyle have asked you to visit them, to come to that factory in London and see for yourself how efficient they are, but as yet, as I understand, you haven't answered their invitation. I have written to you on this subject and I haven't had a reply as yet. It would appear you are completely indifferent to the situation, which I think is scandalous because the UK is one of the few countries in the EU which is a net contributor, those contributions come from taxpayers. Employees of Tate & Lyle are taxpayers have peen pumping money into the EU and this is how they're being repaid.
Now as a result the owners of Tate & Lyle have said they may well close the factory and 850 jobs as the EU policies are "prohibitively high" and unfairly stifle competition by favouring domestic producers of beet sugar.The European Commission's (EC) tariffs are unfairly putting jobs at risk in Britain and throughout Europe.
http://www.just-food.com/news/tate-lyle-sugars-may-close-london-factory_id117127.aspx
So whilst Nick Clegg looks to book his holiday in the Med with his wealthy EU backers will he spare a thought for the 850 Londoners who could lose their jobs because of this failed political project? I doubt it.
However, the rich, wealthy privileged supporters of the EU ( and they are invariably a specific class of people who despise the "poor and unwashed " such as the Oxbridge educated, chianti drinking, Liberal Democrats living in Islington who feel more at home in their holiday homes in Tuscany than they are dealing with "those ghastly English people") who invariably ignore jobs lost when done so by their favourite institution. They even ignore it when the Commission make it clear that they don't actually give a damn about British jobs.
Take Tate and Lyle. A veritable institution of a British business established in Silvertown East London for over a 100 years. The factory is top class, a combination of state of the art technology backed by high end skilled jobs with long tenured employees and offering fantastic traineeships. It provides thousands of tons of sugar and sugar products to the Britsh food industry each week and does so at a competitive price to ensure food inflation does not hurt the pocket of the consumer.
Several years ago based on EU policies it invested in eco friendly systems and developed a business plan to match. It employees around 800 people and was working 7 days a week. Jobs, as I say in a part of London that is desperately in need of such work. However, as I say the EU doesn't care about British jobs and has introduced a ban on Tate and Lyle importing sugar cane from Brazil, South Africa or Thailand ( thus providing work to poor people in those countries) unless Tate and Lyle pay very high tariffs. ( I ask you, where's the free trade here?)
Indeed under questioning from UKIP Agriculture Spokesman, Stuart Agnew, the EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dacian Cioloş did what all EU civil servants do, and blamed Tate and Lyle's own stategy, failing to acknowledge that EU quotas were the instruments changing the supply and price landscape. You can watch the video here.
http://youtu.be/VgfITFWxppk
http://www.ukipmeps.org/index.php?page=articles&op=readArticle&id=352&title=EU-plans-to-dissolve-Tate-%26-Lyles-Mr-Cube
Gerald Mason, Vice President EU Affairs for Tate and Lyle said that the answer was predictable.
"The answer is the predictable one he and his officials give - that their forecasts of cane imports doubling were only that and you cannot hold them to it if they were not subsequently correct. The bit they conveniently miss is that their whole policy was based on this forecast and, in particular, the abolishing of our import quota (the right we had to import cane sugar to run our factory). Their logic was that, with imports doubling, there would be no need any more for an import quota as there would be plenty enough sugar for everybody in Europe who wanted to refine."
Stuart Agnew said to the Commissioner that the EU policy is clearly protectionist to safeguard jobs in Germany and France.
"Your proposal is going to destroy up to 850 jobs in the UK and it will actually transfer them to other EU countries - most unfair - and I'm talking about proposals to cease quotas for sugar beet production by 2015, because this won't be matched by a relaxed quota or the cane sugar refiners, represented in my country by Tate & Lyle. That firm has been a strong player in the UK sugar market all my life; and long before we joined the European Union. It needs more tariff free raw material. It's got to have that to keep its refinery supplied. At the moment it's slowing down; its closing at weekends, its losing its critical mass and it means the costs of refining are becoming uncompetitive and the factory is going to close and you, actually, are the one person in the world who can keep it open. The beneficiaries of your proposal will be the sugar beet industries in France and Germany - not in Britain - because in Britain, we obeyed EU laws and we closed factories three years ago, and those factories cannot be rebuilt by 2015. Tate & Lyle have asked you to visit them, to come to that factory in London and see for yourself how efficient they are, but as yet, as I understand, you haven't answered their invitation. I have written to you on this subject and I haven't had a reply as yet. It would appear you are completely indifferent to the situation, which I think is scandalous because the UK is one of the few countries in the EU which is a net contributor, those contributions come from taxpayers. Employees of Tate & Lyle are taxpayers have peen pumping money into the EU and this is how they're being repaid.
Now as a result the owners of Tate & Lyle have said they may well close the factory and 850 jobs as the EU policies are "prohibitively high" and unfairly stifle competition by favouring domestic producers of beet sugar.The European Commission's (EC) tariffs are unfairly putting jobs at risk in Britain and throughout Europe.
http://www.just-food.com/news/tate-lyle-sugars-may-close-london-factory_id117127.aspx
So whilst Nick Clegg looks to book his holiday in the Med with his wealthy EU backers will he spare a thought for the 850 Londoners who could lose their jobs because of this failed political project? I doubt it.
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