By Paul Homewood
An announcement on the proposed closure of Ford’s Bridgend plant will be made on Thursday, the BBC has been told.
Ford Europe will meet union leaders at its Essex headquarters amid fears over the factory’s future.
The GMB fears the news could "mean disaster" for the plant, which opened in 1980 and employs 1,700 workers.
Ford said it would not comment on speculation and Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said he was in ongoing dialogue with the company.
It comes just months after Ford said it was cutting its Welsh workforce by 1,000, with 370 going in a first phase.
Investment in the new Dragon engine was scaled back, while production of an engine for Jaguar Land Rover is due to end this year.
There has already been concern about whether the plant would be viable making only 125,000 Dragon petrol engines a year.
It comes just days after car sales in the UK fell again and the BBC expects Ford will be in touch with Welsh Government ministers first thing in the morning.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-48533790
Bridgend’s future has been uncertain for the last four years (see here and here), so you can forget about all of the Brexit excuses being put about.
What is certain is that if carmakers such as Ford are told that Europe is going to rapidly phase out petrol cars in favour of EVs, they will no longer be prepared to invest billions in new engine and car assembly lines.
After all, would you?
And we can all guess where the new generation of electric cars will be built.
The next domino to fall could well be Ford Dagenham, which is Ford’s largest producer of diesel engines. Its global presence is at the moment unchallengeable, but if Europe continues with its suicidal obsession with global warming, how much longer will that be the case?
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