Iains, I am typing on a tiny keyboard attached to my tiny tablet. I do not have access in my apartment to the internet and so I am doing this in a bar.

If you, and to a lesser extent Nigel, cannot understand that, well you have my sympathy, but I am certainly not going to apologise for it.

Once again people on your side of the discussion are picking up on trivialities and not addressing the core points.

The snippet of news I heard was from the BBC, normally a fairly reliable source, suggested that because of the trade deal between the EU and Japan etc various goods would no longer be subject to various tariffs. The reporter went on to suggest that vehicles, in particular, would become far cheaper when exported from Japan, Korea etc.

If this where to be the case then it may make better economics for Nissan, Kia et al to export from their bases in that part of Asia than to manufacture in the UK which will in all probability no longer be a a part of the EU in a short time.

If this does prove to be the case, the future of these companies within the UK the finance, the jobs will be lost.

Yet another unintended consequence of Brexit. Nobody wrote that on the side of a bus!