Not bad at all if you ask the Dutch, just seen the dispatches programme on 4, get it on plus one at 9.30, one british food company, thats what they are actually called, british corner shop, has had to relocate to The Netherlands and lose 120 jobs here, employing 70-150 in Europe.The Dutch minister said they have another 600 companies from gb wanting to set up there, paying tax there, and employing locals there, worth half a billion ero, she agreed with you, saying not bad at all!

Its on in 5 mins mate, half a billion, 6000 jobs and all that tax money going to europe, not bad at all mate! And Liz truss was on talking about a pittance deal with Australia, nice and easy, trading with the furthest country away, when you could spit to france!600 companies lining up mate, and thats just Holland, what about the other 27! Its a lorra lorra dosh mate, as cilla would say!

I suggest you go back and read the report I posted a few days ago. Roughly 2 trillion gdp so it's a lot individually but a piss in a swimming pool in the bigger picture of %'s.

My question about this report would be what are they comparing this against?

7,500 jobs lost to the EU mainly to Dublin. I lost my bank job to Dublin back in the 1990's (2000 from my company) nothing to do with Brexit. As numbers not a great deal considering the size of the Financial Services market in the UK. The number of jobs in the FS sector is likely to go down anyway due to automation.

As for assets yes it's a big number but again over the last 40 years what has happened I suspect that companies move assets around all the time because it suits them. Maybe companies have moved them in anticipation of problems with the EU they may move them back?

I think a more accurate reflection is to look at this year on year over the next 5 years. If the size of assets is smaller than today I guess you can say Brexit has had a negative impact.

One more point

They are putting it to the board which generally means its a done deal. Business talk for sorted I think.

The Netherlands and Germany I don't think they were expecting this EU re-location from the UK and its actually a problem absorbing it all.

Exiting the single market, which leave said would not happen, is turning into a disaster, Northern Ireland would be daft to ditch it, they should ditch Johnson instead.

Johnson's tariff free deal is of course nothing of the kind, small and medium exporters are either giving up or re-locating.

A typical problem is the origin of components in a product, the EU were well prepared from the start, it's almost impossible to show their validity.

Its like having to show where you were fishing years ago, who can do that.

The single market, Thatcher's great free trade achievement.

Now look at it.