Or to put it another way.
‘Better Together’ was the nerdy swot at the back of the class debating society in his grey shorts and school cap muttering about economic downturns and job losses while the rest of the class verbally rip the ceiling tiles off arguing about anything but. ‘Scare mongering’ went up the cry, the nerdy Remainer was pelted with spit balls and trudged home to read the Beano.
Whether we like it or not, we are not the Britain we used to be. The world has changed exponentially and shrunk to the size of a mobile phone. Economically speaking thanks to FDI, Britain’s commercial, industrial and financial infrastructure is essentially multi-national and decidedly European.
In January 2016 http://www.britishfamily.co.uk/ reported:
Nearly two thirds of UK manufacturing businesses that employ over 500 are now owned by foreign companies claims business minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe.