A.mandon
By the way, about "new manufacturing plant", except for your London City, give me the list and number of your manufacturing plants as compared to France's
At the risk of dragging this further off topic, I have to correct a myth that you are fed by your politicians there in France about UK manufacturing:
Value of manufacturing in GDP terms, USD market rates
UK: $323 billion
France: $306 billion
2008 figures (latest in dataset), source: UN United Nations Statistics Division - National Accounts
Maybe this answers your question about manufacturing plants with hard facts?