On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:51:49 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:51:31 +0100, Mark wrote:

We still in the G7, G8, G10, G15 etc... Someone must think our views
are not insignificant.

Or that the UKofGB&NI is a sufficiently affluent and large mass market
for the multinational corporations to target with their goods and services.

Well, in my industry (medical x-ray) the multinationals have long ago
ceased to give any credibility to the idea that the sun shines out of
the Ar*ehole of the British Empire.

The value of the UK market to them is strictly just (however many)
units sold here per year. All the international trade shows have moved
out of the country and our status is lower than all the ex-soviet
eastern bloc countries which are now re-equipping with EU money which
largely has come from the UK.

Derek