Electric cars are killing jobs!
The Jon Gaunt Show
Jon Gaunt
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🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Electric cars are killing jobs right across the Globe. The rush to go all electric is insane, it will kill jobs but also kill communities.
Luton is stopping making electric cars and 1200 jobs are at risk.
I broadcast a radio show on BBC local radio back in 2000 when Vauxhall tried to close down the whole factory and it is an event that helped make my career. The old cliche that bad news sells was pretty accurate in my case.
The closure and my broadcast helped to unite the community and I tell you the tale of how we pulled it of in this podcast. I am immensely proud of this work which went on to win three Sony Awards (Radio Oscars) as it was a real team effort but not just the team at the radio station but the whole community of Luton.
Please watch or listen and see how communities can be united. I also think its pretty funny and very indiscreet in how we did it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, good evening. Welcome to the John Gorn podcast. Electric cars are killing jobs. Not just here in the UK, but right across the globe. They'll rush to go all electric is ridiculous. It's insane. It will kill jobs, but it will also kill communities listen to me i do know what i'm talking |
| 0:25.5 | about here obviously the big news today is that luton is going to stop making the electric car |
| 0:32.9 | or the electric van at their plant 1200 jobs are going to go in Luton. |
| 0:38.4 | If you don't know Luton, it's a town in central Bedfordshire. |
| 0:41.2 | It holds a special part in my heart. |
| 0:43.6 | Let me show you why. |
| 0:44.9 | Because I think it was, well, I know it was. |
| 0:47.0 | It was the closure of the Luton car plant before back in 2000, 2001, |
| 0:53.2 | that effectively made my career. Because you know what the fundamental |
| 0:57.5 | truth is in radio, in telly? Bad news is good news for us, whores who work in the news |
| 1:06.2 | industry. Let me explain. When you have bad news is when you're at your best is when you at your metal |
| 1:12.7 | which is when you can talk about issues that matter i went to luton about five years previously |
| 1:19.1 | to it being closed down i didn't particularly want to go i was working in coventry and |
| 1:24.2 | birmingham and things were tickety boo and then they decided the BBC yeah |
| 1:29.4 | a boo sucks they wanted to merge and it's similar to the motor industry this they wanted to merge |
| 1:36.2 | Coventry with Birmingham some Pratt in an Amani suit and ill-fitting Amani suit in London had looked |
| 1:43.0 | at a map and thought oh Birmingham it's only 20 miles away from Coventry. |
| 1:47.2 | We don't need two local radio stations. |
| 1:49.8 | They can have one. |
| 1:51.2 | So they wanted to merge our station, which was becoming successful at last, with Birmingham. |
| 1:58.1 | Now, if you're from Birmingham or Covenshire, you'll know there's a massive |
| 2:01.3 | difference, just like there's a massive difference between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. |
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