Congratulations once again to the BBC’s anti-Brexit propaganda unit, for its news website headline this morning: “Car sales plunge as Nissan warns on Brexit”. It takes talent to pin something on Brexit which even the Guardian admits is caused by something quite different – indeed, something which might more naturally be seen as constituting a case against the EU.
It is true that there was a sharp fall in car sales in September – which at 338,834 were 20.5 per cent lower than the same month in 2017. It is also true that Nissan has issued a warning that a no-deal Brexit, which could see tariffs of 10 per cent placed on UK car exports to the EU, could harm its business – though it stopped a long way short of threatening to close or even reduce its Sunderland factory.
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