I cannot decipher your post, my point was to demonstrate investment in UK automotive industry which I think I have done

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Yep, once the EU decided to aggressively respond to Brexit, there were two choices: hard or soft Brexit.

Thanks to Cameron's filtering system of deliberately limiting the number of actual right wing conservatives within the Tory party as low as possible and selecting for and so maximising its left (who are just socially Lib Dems who like their house prices). The Tories were never that keen on hard brexit in the first place.

The public gave them a mandate that most of them didn't want to carry out.

If and when a hard Brexit line is taken we'll know whether it could succeed or not. Listening to the left is pointless as they wouldn't even recognise its success if it happened anyway....too busy sticking pins in their Tory dolls.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

In a nutshell, the UK has not become more competitive since brexit, rather the opposite, it is now the UKs own burdensome rules and regulations that are contributing to our poor performance and lack of growth.

Terra Firma Capital Partners Chairman and founder Guy Hands says the UK needs a post-Brexit bureaucratic and regulatory rollback to attract investment and encourage economic growth. "It's the British establishment which has managed to tie us all in knots, far more than the Europeans ever did'.

Exactly our politicians can no longer pass the buck and blame the EU.

One more point

I could write a book on the stupidity I have personally suffered from at the hands of civil servants in the last 5 years. Stupidity that has cost me a lump sum of £10,000, a promised refund of £3,500 that was then refused because they made an "error" in their advice, and then another £500 annually, until my last day.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I confess to not truly understanding the level of resistance in the British Establishment to us leaving. Sure, I expected them to throw a hissy fit but genuinely believed that given the nature of the referendum with each vote equally weighted and the incredible turn out, then they would acquiesce and fully get behind it.

Instead, we get this. And in the civil servants defence, I never really expected much out of them to be honest, not holding much of a high opinion before (with notable exceptions).

But to find out that the biggest enemy of Brexit has been the Conservative Party itself?

The biggest eye-opener of all time. Incredible to witness what is going on with them now.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.