UK politicians urge government to try for Apple Car production jobs
Ministers of Parliament in the United Kingdom are urging Apple to produce the rumored "Apple Car" in the country, to invigorate the jobs market hit by the pandemic.
Credit: AppleInsider
A number of MPs are encouraging the country's government to take an interest in Apple's vehicular project. They are trying to convince the UK to ask Apple to use the country as one of its bases of manufacturing for the self-driving car.
While Apple has reportedly been in talks with major producers in Asia, it seems the UK could be part of the same conversation.
Bracknell Conservative MP James Sutherland told The Telegraph the idea was a "no brainer," and for Apple to "bring new car production to the UK, use the high-tech workforce that we already have, create new jobs and build electric cars."
The sentiments were echoed by Doncaster Conservative MP Nick Fletcher. "As the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic this year, we should be engaging with new, innovative industries that help boost economic growth while helping the environment."
Dudley North Conservative MP Marco Longhi suggested the move could be a major boost for parts of the UK with a history in car production. "This would be a fantastic investment for the Midlands and the Black Country," said the minister. "This will mean jobs for people locally and it would buy an endorsement of UK PLC in a post-Brexit environment."
A Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy spokesperson declined to comment on the matter.
It is likely that Apple will spread out the manufacturing of the Apple Car, once it reaches that phase. It makes sense for Apple to use multiple assembly plants for the large-scale goods, with each covering vast markets.
The UK has previously attempted to secure new manufacturing jobs in the past, so reaching out to Apple isn't a stretch of the imagination. In 2019, it attempted to woo Tesla to construct a gigafactory, but lost out to Berlin.
Credit: AppleInsider
A number of MPs are encouraging the country's government to take an interest in Apple's vehicular project. They are trying to convince the UK to ask Apple to use the country as one of its bases of manufacturing for the self-driving car.
While Apple has reportedly been in talks with major producers in Asia, it seems the UK could be part of the same conversation.
Bracknell Conservative MP James Sutherland told The Telegraph the idea was a "no brainer," and for Apple to "bring new car production to the UK, use the high-tech workforce that we already have, create new jobs and build electric cars."
The sentiments were echoed by Doncaster Conservative MP Nick Fletcher. "As the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic this year, we should be engaging with new, innovative industries that help boost economic growth while helping the environment."
Dudley North Conservative MP Marco Longhi suggested the move could be a major boost for parts of the UK with a history in car production. "This would be a fantastic investment for the Midlands and the Black Country," said the minister. "This will mean jobs for people locally and it would buy an endorsement of UK PLC in a post-Brexit environment."
A Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy spokesperson declined to comment on the matter.
It is likely that Apple will spread out the manufacturing of the Apple Car, once it reaches that phase. It makes sense for Apple to use multiple assembly plants for the large-scale goods, with each covering vast markets.
The UK has previously attempted to secure new manufacturing jobs in the past, so reaching out to Apple isn't a stretch of the imagination. In 2019, it attempted to woo Tesla to construct a gigafactory, but lost out to Berlin.
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The UK is a fantastic place to do business, freed from the shakles and opression of the EU, we are free to do as we please, and with a trade deal with the EU the apple car could be built here and sold allover Europe.
For the record im a 26 year old uni masters degree holder who voted leave, its not just ‘deluded’ or older people.
im so glad we regained our freedom from the EU. We are now free from restrictions, free from opression, free from daft regulations, and free to do as we please without asking our ‘masters’ in Brussels to permit it.
but back to the point, built here would make it one of the best manufacturered cars in the world.
At the moment they're on their knees, desperate for absolutely anything to offset the almighty - and completely predicable - mess that Brexit is causing and will continue to cause for years to come.
A few weeks in, and we're still no clearer as to what these supposed benefits off Brexit are. Ask any Brexiteer and they can't answer, and just resort to soundbites and nonsense about 'oppression'. Give me strength.
Personally, Brexit has been a painful, very expensive and extremely worrying mess for me. That's not 'project fear' or a prediction, it's happening to me now.
The question that always seems to get lost when people tout the 'benefits' of Brexit, is whether they are equal too, or an improvement on what we already had.
Invariably they're not. Almost everything is a downgrade. A bit like your house burning down, then calling someone giving you a 2 man tent a 'bonus'.
The new import/export costs per year amount to almost as much as we were paying into the EU anyway. The whole thing is just a bafflingly nonsensical, illogical farce,
You are also an exception here. It was older people who largely swung the referendum vote. If UK citizens living in the EU (who had the most to lose with Brexit) had been allowed to vote (many, myself included, were not allowed to vote) then Brexit would never have happened. If 16 and 17 year olds had been allowed to vote (they weren't, in spite of there futures being at stake) Brexit wouldn't have happened either. That's without taking into account the lies and manipulation by the leave campaign.
As far as trade deals go, is anyone in the UK happy? The day after the referendum, the EU made something clear. You can't be better off out than in. That obviously wasn't going to change and of course hasn't.
Now it's time for the UK to come to terms with that. All I've seen so far from various industry organisations is pain, complaints and frustration, which Boris and cohorts are labelling as 'teething problems'.
I think the UK's car industry position will slip unless it is artificially supported by government. Either way, past experience will not be enough to make the UK an attractive proposal for assembling an Apple car.
But with Brexit and horrible unions it’s a no-brainer for Apple to NOT see the U.K. as a good place for an assembly plant.
Do you have an example of these "shakles" (shackles)? You realise that we were in the same committees as other member states, right? We all had a say in the laws and directives that all member states followed. That's why we were able to buy and sell to every EU country without unnecessary paperwork. Brexit has added paperwork. It is the only trade deal in history that has erected trade barriers. I believe we were the ones who proposed and designed the Single Market, which is flourishing in the EU member states, but we're no longer a part of it.
Yes, like all that seafood we now cannot sell to the EU. Wasn't Brexit all about "the fish"?
Brexit isn't about people being dumb or intelligent, so having a degree doesn't make your decision any more right or wrong than anyone else's. Unless your degree is in trade deals, politics and tax avoidance, it doesn't really mean much.
My best friend voted to leave because he was annoyed that he had to buy a car part a second time because a new EU Directive meant the original part he'd bought didn't have a certain EU standards mark on it. In reality, the mark on his was merely superseded by a new, updated mark. Too late. He simply didn't check his info first, and had a knee-jerk anger reaction, and voted out. He's a visual effects artist; he's not stupid.
Yes, no more freedom to go to EU countries with just our passports; now, we need a visa and more and more paperwork. Thank you, Brexit! /s
Name them.
How was the EU oppressing us? Do you have any specific examples?
Name them. Do you mean we're now free to start using those neonicotinoids that kill bees? Yay! /s
Again, they were never our masters - we were directly involved.
How so?
Much more important are rules of origin. In order to avoid tariff barriers the Apple car would need to contain a fair proportion of components sourced from within the EU and whilst you're doing that you may as well manufacture the whole thing within the EU.
And now the E.U. is upset with Astra Zeneca because they are honoring contracts in the order in which they were negotiated and received. Comical.
There had been grumblings about the “Polish plumber” taking native English jobs for years. But many were pushed over the edge by the Arab exodus from Syria in particular. Angela Merkel of Germany welcomed them with open arms. But a clash of cultures ensued and Britains were watching. I suspect if Angela Merkel had not done that Brexit would have been voted down.
You’re not fooling anyone, friend.