Brexit Brands

[jeremyp]

As I say to the JWs when they knock on my door: "We'd be wasting each other's time." Sometimes, they even get the hint.

So you are conceding that the Tories never actually espoused "Sell off Britain" even if one of the consequences of their policies was to put quite a few large companies and services into foreign hands.

Of course, Brexit has made the problem worse because the drop in the pound has made British companies very cheap to buy. Only recently, Arm Holdings - our last major IT innovation company - went to the Japanese.

[Harrowby Hall]

No I am not conceding anything.

I just do not want to get into a pointless, silly and boring series of posts - the primary purpose of which will be to massage your ego over some minuscule, trifling semantic point.

In general terms, you and I appear to have similar views over many of the political problems currently assailing the UK. In this case, for some reason I don't want to know anything about, you appear to be on heat over some slight against the Conservative Party.

Now, let us stop wasting each other's time. The Conservative Party espoused selling off Britain. Let's leave it at that and you go and knock on some other door.

[jeremyp]

In general terms, you and I appear to have similar views over many of the political problems currently assailing the UK. In this case, for some reason I don't want to know anything about, you appear to be on heat over some slight against the Conservative Party.

I just get tired of people making incorrect claims about the causes of problems in the UK, the claim in this case being that the Tories deliberately sold off the nationalised industries to foreign companies. This is factually incorrect and might lead people to put in place incorrect remedies for the perceived issues.

[SteveH]

ITV and Sky are physical things?

"MOST".

[Aruntraveller]

the Tories deliberately sold off the nationalised industries to foreign companies

I would agree that is incorrect. They sold them off to whoever they could as long as they got the money - they didn't care. As a result a lot of foreign companies did buy UK concerns. EDF and DB spring to my mind but doubtless there are many others.