No one is preventing you from taking your laptop with you
Damn right they are not, since I shall not use the UK to connect until a more reasonable balance is found.
You just aren't getting it, are you?
Globalization is about the impact of market and other forces and the subsequent competition driving how things are done.
Water will find it's own level, by the easiest means and governments who do not take this message on board are playing with fire, as far as their wealth creation capabilities and by extension their ability to provide the required social environment are concerned.