As we know, businesses have influence in the government

Now, if those businesses are owned by the Chinese. Boom, China has influence in the government.

Which means we'll get more pro-China legislation

i don't think we want china embedded in our infrastructure as much as we can help it

The more they control, the more influence, the more they fuck us

if britain owned companies in china... all our money would be in china... we would be reliant on china

That's not true

China doesn't have "all" their money in the UK.

but they have a stake

they have money on the line

True.

money talks

Which is why they will leverage their position to keep those investments safe

Exactly.

they have no leverage

Which means they will influence politics to their advantage

Of course they do

Through that money

Through those investments

Are you trying to say that business has no power in our government?

so their leverage is "if you dont do what we say we're going to make this business fail and lose all our money"

DONT YOU GO AND MAKE US LOSE ALL OUR MONEY NOW!

WE MEAN IT! WE'LL LOSE ALL OUR MONEY!

😛

i'm not sure how big of a deal it is in the case of something like British Steel, don't know enough about them

They levereage is "We'll pull our investments, causing massive damage to the economy." or "We'll put some more investments in, if you do X" or they use their origional investments to lobby the government,

i'm more worried about infrastructure like telecomms

I'm more hacked off that it's being sold off abroad, irrelevant of who it's going to. I'd like to really try and work hard in bringing industry back to the UK

Nationalise it @Crafty

it wont effect our economy... they own it.. its their money, their economy

> it wont effect our economy

It will though..

@Mikey Yeah this. It just seems like the only companies we can own these days are service ones

Those are British jobs they control.

ok say they pull investment... what happens?

how do you "pull investment"?

That industry collapses

you have to "sell"

Liquidate the assets

and who do you sell to?

Sell the land, layoff the workers, etc.