The language we speak is the single most British thing there is
I'll have a think about that when I slip into my new pyjamas delivered by a juggernaut. That will have to wait until after I've been to the ballet, and then the karaoke club set up by a local entrepreneur on his patio, where you can get served burgers with ketchup by his heavily tattooed wife.
and most of our industry .. (e.g.) Mcvities, makers of quintessential British biscuits, now owned by a Turkish company, UK lottery and (possibly very soon) Royal Mail owned by Czechs (hope they don't bounce) Pilkington Glass, now Japanese owned, Rolls Royce, MG and Bentley cars .. the list is endless ..........
Britain has been dependant on 'services' for decades and 'service' basically means money men (aka hedge funds, usually American, but some British or European) buying up viable, well known and respected but all too often not particularly well managed or financed British companies, and then flogging them off to any and everybody (usually foreigners) who can come up with the necessary moolah British companies own a lot of foreign assets but no tax revenues from their profits (and they employ few if any British workers) are paid to HMRC as they are not 'British based', similar to what Amazon and Co do in the UK
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In a similar vein this fella -
Pilkington Glass, now Japanese owned, Rolls Royce, MG and Bentley cars .. the list is endless ..........
Britain has been dependant on 'services' for decades and 'service' basically means money men (aka hedge funds, usually American, but some British or European) buying up viable, well known and respected but all too often not particularly well managed or financed British companies, and then flogging them off to any and everybody (usually foreigners) who can come up with the necessary moolah
British companies own a lot of foreign assets but no tax revenues from their profits (and they employ few if any British workers) are paid to HMRC as they are not 'British based', similar to what Amazon and Co do in the UK
Fings can only get better .. fingers crossed
EDIT .. sorry to be so long winded lol
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Owned by American hedge funds.