Originally Posted by
felixflyer
It shouldn't. The fact they are looking at China and the USA proves this.
I think they are just using Brexit as an excuse to do something they were probably already looking at doing anyway.
Hey ho. That leaves us with thousands of skilled workers. Time to reopen Brooklands I think.
The point is businesses are ALWAYS looking. So what advantage does one location have over another? For a long time part of the UK's advantage was that we were in the EU thus it was very easy to move people and stuff between locations. In the future that won't apply so in the long term, why come here when there is additional hassle over somewhere within the EU. If you're considering locations outside the EU...why come here at all?
In the short term (like the next 2 or 3 years) then complete chaos is the problem, unknown regulatory structure, unknown border crossing etc etc. How do you plan a production line if you have no idea how things will get from A to B.