>>11Way to miss the point.
Yes, you are technically correct. But the workforce (ie: peasantry) of Britain has a huge reliance on overseas investment.
Take the recent buyover of Vauxhall by Peugeot as an example. The fact that Vauxhall is owned by the American GM is irrelevant. Peugeot would not have ever attempted this sort of thing, were 20% not knocked off the pound pretty much immediately after June 2016, and stayed there.
To be clear, this is not a magnanimous thing. They are going to strip and sell the UK manufacturing sites. Why? Brexit, that's fuckin why. Over the next year or two, similar industries will suffer the same fate. Remember the whole hoo-haa getting Tata to keep their steel manufacturing jobs in Wales? As a sole player now, the UK has a shitty hand and that sort of thing is going to happen time and time again, cos that's business.