True ... some of the jobs would be for people transferred from other relatively local areas - but that is due to certain major dealerships losing their VAG franchises ... so the new dealership would be keeping those jobs in the area, along with a few new vacancies, rather than the people made redundant having to go elsewhere or join the dole queue.
You wouldn't expect any company to come in and all the staff be new recruits would you?
The Welsh Assembly promised, if I remember correctly, 900 jobs with many new vacancies for the locals. How many actually work in there - about half that number. How many are new recruits from the locality - very few, if any - most were transferred from other Assembly establishments.
Here is a major company willing to invest in the area and be turned down. Seems any way of improving the area is seen as retrograde by those people we have elected to look after our locality.