"You can gain a lot by knowing the precise source (which Iains should have given in the first instance)"


But, but, but matey shaw has never knowingly given a link in 19620 posts. Do I detect any criticism directed to him. No of course not!
Birds of a feather, packrats and all that!


https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/foreign-direct-investment
Now if you go 2 lines below the bar chart you can see a box marked max.
Hit that and you can access graphical data from 1995 to near present.
You can see since 2000 the graph has jumped all over the place so taking short time periods and trying to determine a trend is rather pointless
Rather like the gnomes last pathetic little jibe.