So AC thinks we’re going become GB again, Rule Britannia and all that, send a gunboat up the Yangtze to quell those pesky rebels. Well sorry AC and all you other Brexiteers who want to relive past glories that was 150 yrs ago when Britain was at the cutting edge of technology.
The reality is that the vast majority of our industries are foreign owned and we are a workshop that it is convenient to exploit. We cannot even retain control of our utilities and strategic industries they have all been sold off for short term gain, even if we did regain any control globalization would negate it.