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British high-tech expertise to remain within National Borders.

Submitted on Tuesday 19th July 2016

Rejected on Friday 29th July 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

British high-tech expertise to remain within National Borders.

Petition Details

Selling to the highest overseas bidder benefits them, not us. Loss of Strategic and financial benefits undermines National pride and security and deprives British Government of Tax revenues.

Additional Information

Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars sold to Germany 1998
Decca Radar sold to USA 2000.
Decca Navigator sold to France 2000
British Leyland broken-up and bits sold to China, India and Germany during period 1976 - 2005
Thames Water to Germany 2001
Powergen 2002 to Germany
BAA sold to Spain 2006
P&O to Dubai 2006
ICI sold to Holland 2008
Branston Pickles to Japan 2016
Imminent 2016:
ARM Holdings to Japan
LSE to Germany . . .

. . . alas, et al ad infinitum!

(All these and many more not mentioned may be reference via Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/)


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