Take advantage of Brexit.

Rather than just cherry pick your data to suit your argument. I'd sooner look at the macro effect of growth from 1949 to 2022  in the UK to help demonstrate your point that leaving the EU is the problem to ALL the UK's ills, especially low growth.

Let's have a look shall we: www.statista.com/statistics/281734/gdp-growth-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/

Oh look, it doesn't seem to support being an EU member is 'sunlit uplands' for the Uk's economy.

The UK joined the EU in 1973, by 1974 it had negative growth. Again while in the EU in 1980 it had negative growth; same with 1992 and 2009 - negative growth. All while being a member of the EU.

The UK's highest year of growth while being a member of the EU came way back in 1988 when it grew by 5.2% and its never seen such growth since.

And now it is forecasted that the UK will eventually return to annual growth rate ~2.2% over the next decade, similar to the average when it was an EU member.

Sorry, but the data isn't telling us that being in the EU would turbocharge the UK's economy like you believe.

You act as though the EU is the foundation supporting the UK's economy and if it is removed the UK sinks. This clearly isn't the case.

You're just a disgruntled poster trying and failing to blame anything you possibly can on Britain's decision to leave the EU. The EU isn't vital to UK economic growth. An important trading partner but not vital enough that it turbo-chargers the UK's economy into 'sunlit uplands', the macroeconomic data tells us differently. 


Let's take some excerpts from the "experts" from the same link:


www.statista.com/statistics/941233/monthly-gdp-growth-uk/

Let's have a look at inflation now, another lie perpetuated by you that one could be forgiven in thinking not only is the UK alone suffering inflation, but it's all the fault of Brexit!



Yep, still no sign that Brexit caused inflation *rollseyes*


www.statista.com/statistics/306648/inflation-rate-consumer-price-index-cpi-united-kingdom-uk/

Still no mention of the bedrock of the UK's economy - the EU - having such an impact on the state of the UK's economy itself.

You're clutching at straws Gnomey. 

Lets put this to bed.

This is the text that precedes the link on question.



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1.Main points
Both the inward and the outward foreign direct investment (FDI) positions (stocks) increased in 2021 compared with 2020; the value of the UK's inward position increased by £83.1 billion to £2,002.4 billion, while the outward position increased by £16.0 billion to £1,769.3 billion.

The increase in the inward FDI position mainly reflects higher positions with the Americas (by £89.7 billion) and non-EU Europe (by £37.3 billion); the increase in the Americas was primarily from professional, scientific and technical services with the United States.

The value of outward FDI earnings (profits) was almost three times higher in 2021 compared with 2020, rising by £85.1 billion from £49.6 billion, to £134.7 billion; this partly reflects the much lower outward FDI earnings reported in 2020, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The increase in outward FDI earnings was seen across all continents; particularly, the Americas was more than four times higher in 2021 than in 2020; this mainly reflects higher earnings reported by a few companies, compared with the low earnings values in 2020.

Net FDI earnings (outward less inward) were much higher in 2021 (£62.9 billion) than in 2020 (negative £6.5 billion); FDI made a positive contribution to the UK's current account in 2021, having been slightly negative in 2020.

Several factors affected FDI statistics for 2020, including disruption from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, global recession, and changes to the FDI statistical populations and sampling methods.



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2.Foreign direct investment positions
The foreign direct investment (FDI) position is the value of the stock of investment at a point in time. Figure 1 shows that the UK's inward FDI position - the stock of FDI in the UK controlled by foreign companies - rose by £83.1 billion to £2,002.4 billion in 2021. By contrast, the value of the UK's outward FDI position - stock of investment that UK-based companies control abroad - was £16.0 billion higher in 2021 (£1,769.3 billion) compared with 2020 (£1,753.3 billion). This means that the UK's negative net international investment position (outward less inward positions) widened to negative £233.0 billion in 2021, compared with negative £165.9 billion in 2020.


In other words foreign money into the UK was greater than UK money investing abroad.
But that was because foreign money doesnt invest so that the UK can profit and grow. It is because foreign money BUYS British businesses and profits itself.
And it is like a fire sale. The pound is low so sales of businesses are cheap.
The UK doesnt grow when companies are bought up and either closed or moved. The figure for dfi represents a selling off, not the kind i mentioned which would be in support of British development and innovation.

Conversely the UK has not grown because it has not invested in profitable companies abroad to any significant degree.

It happened to Cadburys. To Ford. To EV development going abroad. To Jaguar LandRover. To ASDA.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-british-firms-keep-getting-bought-out-by-foreign-investors/

And this is a list of foreign owned companies that operate in the UK.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_subsidiaries_of_foreign_companies
THIS is what is called dfi.

Many have been owned by foreign companies for years. But it does the UK far less good than if they had stayed British owned.

The investment i spoke about was for companies which do not become foreign OWNED.


Each time foreign companies buy up British companies, the UK loses some sovereignty. It may gain some employment and tax but loses control.

A truly progressive country does not sell its assets. Others bet on them, and allow them to remain under national control instead of buying them and controlling from abroad.
I referred to the former in context.
The bar chart under the graph which you refuse to explain shows that more foreign money has gone into buying up UK companies than the UK has bought up foreign companies.

Now piss off.

That is showing the difference between outward and inward investment - as inward investment into the UK grew, outward investment grew at a slower pace (as expected due to the change in exchange rates) and thus the difference.




I dont disagree that UK business investment stagnated - everyone was waiting for a decision on what our trading relationship with the EU was going to be.

However that is different from FDI which mainly consisted of foreign companies buying up UK businesses because the price had become more attractive.

Foreign investing is buying other companies - theres not a great deal of point investing large amounts if you do not gain control.

For any companies taking control of foreign firms, simply buying a minority shareholding is not a lot of use. You want the power to affect decision making and the future direction.

Just another example of the lie that there are advantages to Brexit.
Reread thw thread title.

You are now on ignore. You are wasting too much of my time.