Thursday, May 24, 2007

Takeo Fukui: 'we thought the UK was in Europe'

telegraph.co.uk/money: Honda tells UK: join euro- zone or else

Honda's president Takeo Fukui has threatened to cut off future investment in Britain unless the country joins the euro, admitting that the Japanese car producer had made an "error" building its car plant in Swindon.

Posted by chris @ 04:30 AM (202 views) Add Comment

5 Comments

1. harold said...

He's peed-off about the strength of the £. When / if the £ tanks he'll be all smiles.

Thursday, May 24, 2007 10:40AM Report Comment
 

2. John Petley said...

He'll be eating his words before too long. I would give the Euro 10 years at the most. Club-Med and Germany can't continue sharing the same currency for much longer.

Thanks to our ejection from the ERM and the determination of Jimmy Goldsmith, we will not be in the eye of the storm when the Euro goes bang, although we will obviously not escape unscathed.

Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:17AM Report Comment
 

3. harold said...

Sorry John Petley, your EU scepticism has clearly got the better of you, as it did with that barking loony Goldsmith. The world is gearing up to replace the $ with the €. It’s already crossed the Rubicon.

Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:16PM Report Comment
 

4. tipping point said...

Honda are just putting in their excuses early. What they really want to do is drive down manufacturing costs by making cars in one of the recently join EU states.

Thursday, May 24, 2007 01:45PM Report Comment
 

5. sold 2 rent 1 said...

Maybe the euro will survive but the club medders and Ireand will bail.

Thursday, May 24, 2007 06:42PM Report Comment
 

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