EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

TBH I'm not sure productive manufacturing is the way we should be going. Competing against countries where life is cheap is never going to get us anywhere except back to pre-EU levels of wages and ridiculously long working hours.
Thatcher was right in investing (time, money and effort) in the financial sector, let's just hope that London isn't too badly affected and as a Country we can still reap the rewards of her legacy.>

You're lack of imagination is vivid! If you can't compete at the bottom of the market invest in emerging tech.

We are reaping the rewards of her legacy: under-regulated financial products brought down banks and excused the hollowing out of the state via 'austerity'.