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In short, financial services of the kind where there is very little trickle down of wealth. And not much tax paid.
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Are you suggesting that having a financial industries is totally worthless to GDP?
This suggests they pay £10's billions in tax.
https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN06193Whether they should pay more ("yes") is probably a discussion one should have quite apart from the one where we decide to just give up on the industry.
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And they are also going ATM... I doubt the UK can turn itself into the financial Singapore of the EU. The space is already taken.
christianSpaceman
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Building a car factory (well any factory) needs an enormous investment. So you won't run away over Brexit.
But if your cars get slapped with a huge WTO tariff after a messy Brexit / your JIT parts imports processes are broken thanks to half assed EU access, your 10 year plan may not include the UK.
Another example on how populist measures leasing to badly thought out deglobalization can backfire massively.
Bye bye jobs, and what will come back in their place?