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Backtracking to the autos/ electric etc. The loss of jobs is one thing, the effect on any engineering firms still supplying parts for assembly is far more concerning IMO. Brexit serves to highlight the absurd interdependencies that exist as a result of a fragile globalisation that has significantly reduced national security (not in a militaristic sense) as the UK has taken the easy route and eroded critical secondary activity and skill/ knowledge base in favour of questionable tertiary activity. Rebuilding that ability I think is critical and an overhaul of personal transportation in the UK could provide one catalyst and kill various birds with one stone. It's unfortunate that e.g. Dyson has abandoned ship when that is the direction in which he is trying to re-invent himself, but it's an open playing field to start looking at pro-active solutions to the shitshow that has developed irrespective of the outcome of Brexit.