Ford is to cut 800 jobs in Britain and 4,000 roles across Europe over the next three years as part of a plan to cut production of electric cars as sales stall and competition from China steps up. The Telegraph has more.
The company is axing 4,000 roles across Europe by the end of 2027, with Germany and the U.K. worst hit, as it reduces production of key electric models.
Ford had pledged to overhaul its business on the Continent in early 2021, saying it would go almost completely electric by the end of the decade.
However, it said it had taken significant losses in recent years, compounded by weak demand for electric vehicles, and a lack of government support for the shift.
Ford’s European sales were down 17.9% up to September, far outstripping an industry-wide decline of 6.1%.
It joins Nissan, Volkswagen, Stellantis and General Motors in announcing major cost-cutting plans.
Ford, which employs 5,300 people in Britain, said the layoffs represented about 2.3% of its workforce of 174,000.
The cuts will not affect its manufacturing sites in Dagenham and Halewood, nor its logistics base in Southampton, with the majority of the job losses expected to be administrative or product development roles. …
Ford said Europe’s carmakers faced “significant competitive and economic headwinds while also tackling a misalignment between CO2 regulations and consumer demand for electrified vehicles”.
Where are all the green jobs we were promised?
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More please. Quickly.
Surprise, surprise. All those car manufacturers diligently and dutifully charging down the same road without complaint, and suddenly they notice it is a dead-end. So much for top management.
Notice where all the competition’s coming from? Could it be the same country that’s going to be producing all our solar panels and wind turbines, steel and all our consumer goods? The country whose use of coal makes manufacturing so cheap?
The same country Farmer harmer Starmer was sucking up too a few days ago.
800 people cut out of 5,300 means the British staff take a 15% cut. Europe staff outside Britain must number 174,000-5,300=168,700 of which Ford are cutting 4,000-800=3,200 or 1.9%
I wonder why they’re hitting Britain so much harder than the rest of Europe? Any ideas Eddie-baby?.
Also cuts in Germany. Guess which two countries have the most expensive electricity in Europe.
Wait… You don’t think that… Hmm.
I don’t want to say it’s beautiful because that would be rather callous in regard to the people who lost their jobs. At least they aren’t being enticed to take part in the evil agenda anymore. Some of them probably even thought that they were making the world a better place. These people should be given solace and recompense for intellectual injury and in due course they will understand.
Net zero makes contact with reality, exhibit number 14326. More to come.
“Ford Cuts 800 British Jobs After Electric Car Sales Stall”
“British Leyland cuts 100,000 British Jobs After Sales of Marxism Inspired Strike-Sabotaged Sub-Standard Cars Stall.”
These 1970s parallel headlines just write themselves…
If you want to examine the decline of your culture and as we are on the subject of cars look at the beauty of British cars up until the early 1970s and look at the monstrosities that were generated in the late 1970s. This is a very rapid decline in aesthetic values and you can use it, including all the design foibles of each car, to map out the decline of the country. The Austin Allegro, then the Metro, Maestro, Montego. To my eyes even as a child I saw these as an attempt to show that we are stunted as a country and ripe for a takeover of sovereignty.
Just what the WEF / Net Zero lunatics want.
Mind you, Ford might benefit a bit from jaguar committing woke suicide
It’s starting to look like these huge companies have all been bought off by cartel of the Chinese and the WEF/Davos set who are quite prepared to slaughter their own economies on behalf of China if the money’s right.
If electric car sales are the disaster that any businessman with a microbe of brain power always knew they would be, and the petrol and diesel ban is a couple of years around the corner, this looks like nothing but deliberate self-destruction.
The absurd new Jaguar rebranding is a good example. An advert consisting of a Hunger Games aristocracy tribute show, none of whom look like they’ve ever bought a car in their lives, let alone a Jaguar.
This of course could all just be moron world on steroids, but it’s increasingly starting to look like deliberate bought & paid for top down sabotage. We are being played like banjos.