"we are doing much, much better than "Europe" and those countries in the Eurozone."

How can our performance be assessed at present though? The signs are mixed for sure, but then we're in a sort of phoney peace before Article 50 is triggered; we know other Japanese firms are being approached to leave the UK. These signs are not good, with only exports being something to cheer about. For the time being I think we're in a sort of limbo, not helped any the tories reverting to their authoritarian default position and leaving us all in the dark.

As for control, we've destroyed any chance of influencing pretty much anyone, we're even inviting the Chinese to take control of part of our infrastructure with their crappy nuclear reactor. We've caved already.