It’s staggering to see Ford Europe’s market share dwindle to just 2%, yet no meaningful accountability is taken—particularly in Germany, where headcount remains largely untouched. Despite the performance collapse, the job security there seems almost untouchable.
Meanwhile, the UK continues to bear the brunt. Time and time again, work is quietly shifted from British sites to Germany, under the pretense of “efficiency” or “strategy”—when in reality, it’s a systematic protection of German jobs, often at the expense of British ones. British employees have paid the price for years due to poor decisions made at the top.
It’s hard not to notice the pattern: British senior leadership, instead of defending UK operations, seem complicit—funneling work away to protect a status quo that clearly isn’t working.
With sales numbers like these, change is urgently needed. Not just in operations—but in how decisions are made and who is held responsible when performance doesn’t match promises.