Labour, Conservatives, Brexit or No-Brexit there doesn't seem to be anyone doing anything serious about the issue of British assets being sold wholesale to China. It's treated as though they are some free-market foreign venture capitalist investors, who consider the UK to be a "good investment", when in reality any money spent on foreign assets by Chinese businesses is more to do with securing the geo-political goals of the Politburo than to wanting to invest in our country in good faith. They don't spend a penny without taking their long-term totalitarian strategy into account, and it's not aimed at promoting Freedom & Liberal Democracy.
After Brexit I imagine this issue will only get worse, not that it's not an issue within the EU already, but at least there was some protection in being a part of a unified block. I don't see Brexit as "Independence" I see it as opening the door to more acrid foreign influence, that to some extent EU regulations (often touted as being red tape regarding bendy bananas) protected us from.
No one thinks long term any more, all the politics in our country provide are empty promises and short term returns.
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