UK government pays for energy projects in Scotland to help Scottish economy.
Scotland makes up 7% of UK economy.
Scotland claims 100% ownership after independence.
Genius SNP.
> the Blizzard acquisition the UK CMA will bend to international pressure if it's the only one holding out.
I read that MS agreed to remedial changes for the purchase to be approved by CMA, but those changes were the same ones that CMA originally asked for at the start that MS refused. So CMA got what it wanted but it's still seen as a MS as eventual winner and CMA loser.
> And I don't really buy the "Chromium gives Google power over the web", as it is permissively licensed, and there is at least one other giant stakeholder in the form of Microsoft.
Google completely controls Chromium, it is their project, they decide what patches are accepted into the code. Microsoft Edge just like Brave and the other forks all depend on Google for the actual code, all they do is add some minor features. Google does not care about Microsoft's opinion regarding Chromium's direction.
The UK along with Norway export gas to EU during summer which is stored for use in winter.
UK does not have expensive gas/electricity because of Brexit, it is because of Ukraine war. The rest of EU is just as bad or worse when it comes to energy prices. The economy in Germany is worse than UK this year. The latest data regarding budget deficit from France is just as bad as UK.
Not sure what food chain issues, the UK needs cheap labour to work the fields, UK people won't accept that work, so cheap labour is brought over from Asia for seasonal work. The new young generation Polish/Eastern Europe people are no longer are interested in such work either.
Successful UK companies don't manage to reach anywhere near that because the owners/shareholders usually get a juicy offer from non-UK buyer and prefer an easy payday rather than further developing their company/products internationally. There's too many successful food companies bought by US companies in the past 30 years, the latest being today Mars (USA) buying Hotel Chocolat (UK) for £534m.
In Europe the nationalism/laws in Germany and France is very high so it doesn't happen as often. That's why you see UK selling Rolls Royce (to German rival) and Jaguar and Land Rover to India. The opposite will never be allowed to happen. The UK politicians allow it to appease foreigner rich folk and hope they love Britian in return (they don't). Prime example is the sale of ARM in 2016.
If one reads Bloomberg/FT they regularly go on how UK public companies are a great buy given their shares are low but their dividend payouts high, but international investors do not invest for unknown reasons (because UK is regarded as a sh*ithole). So the current marketcaps of UK companies should in fact be much higher if they had the proper investment by international investors like they do to other countries.