Betrayed

The evidence of the past three decades supports Thatcher’s initial optimistic embrace of the single market as in the best interests of the UK and attract investment form outside the EU.

In September of 1986 Mrs Thatcher together with the Nissan President officially opened the Nissan plant in Sunderland providing much needed jobs in an area of the UK that had sufered badly through the declined in ship building.

Why did Nissan invest so heavily in the North East in general and Sunderland inparticular? The answer is very simple, Nissan grasped the opportunity to use the Uks membership of the Single Market to export their cars to 512.4 million potential customers.

In the 2017 general election the Conservative election manifesto promised that the UK would leave the Single Market.

Boris Johnson has stated that should he win a majority in the Commons he wil negociate a third Deal with the EU; that will end Britains membership of the EU and as a consequence leaving the Single Market resulting in Nissan closing the Sunderland Plant and setting up shop in another EU member country – the good people of Sunderland and the North East will be left high and dry.