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HIRE AND RENTAL NEWS • AUGUST 2016
Managing Director,
GrahamArundell issued
a statement a week after
the decision.
“Following the clear
decision to leave the
European Union, HAE
EHA, together with other
business organisations,
will want clarity as to
the timetable for UK
withdrawal. Tackling
market uncertainty and particularly
releasing paused investment for
infrastructure, utilities and house
building must be priorities. We want
the UK government and devolved
administrations to work together to plan
for an orderly and phased departure
and for the implications for existing and
HAE EHA calls for clarity following Brexit
In light of the recent British referendum on Britain’s
future within the European Union and the historic vote to
leave, the Hire Association Europe (HAE) and Event Hire
Association (EHA) have announced a new beginning for
the hire industry starts here and now.
new business transactions
to be better understood
and explained, including
access to the skilled
workforce we all need now
and in the future.”
According to the official
statement from the HAE,
during the Brexit process
the association (HAE)
will continue to lobby
parliament to ensure
the formation of future legislation and
the interests of the members are kept
in the forefront of future policy. The
association is committed to achieving
stability and maximising business results
from decisions and ensuring industry
standards are adhered to.
Visit: www.hae.org.uk
Graham Arundell, HAE EHA’s
Managing Director
this stage, and hopefully it is, but when
people get desperate and disillusioned
it is frightening how thin the veneer of
decency is. The UK has already seen a
tenfold increase in abuse and thuggery
against immigrants and coloured UK
nationals. With openly hostile and nasty
attitudes that frankly shock, all this
within weeks of the referendum. I also
used to do business in Yugoslavia where
Croatians, Bosnians and Serbians all
seemed to be the best of friends laughing
and joking together after work. And
then as the country split back into its
constituent parts and Slobodan Milosevic
whipped up nationalism in Serbia to
gain power, the whole place went mad
with neighbours fighting and ethnic
cleansing. I still struggle to believe it
actually happened – such civilised people
living peacefully and tolerantly together
one minute and then slaughtering each
other and committing atrocities the
next! So while I don’t think that would
happen in Europe in 2017 – I do know a
simple chain of events can lead to this
quite quickly. Don’t forget Hitler kicked
off his campaign of domination with a
referendum on the withdrawal from the
League of Nations.
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