Jaguar Land Rover: Your comments

The government has held talks with Jaguar Land Rover over the possibility of state aid for the carmaker.

Readers of the BBC news website have sent in their comments.

I don't believe we, the UK tax payer, should bail out Land Rover Jaguar. Tata purchased these companies earlier this year and I believe would have taken into account the hard times ahead before making the purchase. Also if Tata as the parent company are entering hard times why are they sponsoring the Ferrari F1 team?
John, Suffolk, UK

No - Tata own them, they've just spent a whole lot of money on Ferrari sponsorship and they should be sorting it themselves. Why do the British Government (read here - taxpayers) have to fork out to save a business which is now owned by an Indian company? Shouldn't the Indian government be bailing them out instead?
CS, Sheffield, UK

The government should nationalise this group for a relatively small sum, which is fair because of their financial commitments, and they should be made profitable and supported if this can be done relatively cheaply but if not they should be closed.
John B Davies, London, UK

Why should the UK taxpayer subsidise Jaguar Land Rover when it is not UK owned? What next? Will the UK taxpayer be about to bail out BMW, Mercedes, Honda, Renault and Citroen? This country is amassing mind-boggling levels of debt already and what does the Government do? It bails out a foreign owned business! We have gone stark raving mad.
Alasdair Campbell, Bath, UK

I tell you what, take your millions out of Ferrari and use it to pay your bills rather than expecting the British public to pay for an Indian car company. If Land Rover Jaguar are so historically valuable to the country why was it we sold them in the first place?
Frank Shiel, Milton Keynes, UK

I love Jaguars, especially 60s ones, but I have to say that I don't think that the government should use public money which would be better spent elsewhere on propping up a private company which isn't even British anymore! I think the public will find a bail out of a foreign company with UK taxpayers' money hard to swallow as well.
Michael Hockey, Milton Keynes, UK

We should not be giving a cash handout to what is now a foreign company. If a cash injection is desirable it should be done as a purchase of stock so that the tax payer can benefit in the long term.
Gary, UK

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