I expect it'll be a lot of ,"Just what we need, somebody really ruthless in business, nobody will push us around with this lot in charge"
Followed by a few years later: "These idiots are screwing us all over with their sharp business practices, how on Earth could we have ever known?" and "I won't have a Chinky on matchdays now until they've gone"!.
British business actions in China are hardly squeaky clean. For instance we have only just given them back Hong Kong, which we effectively demanded from them after the navy slaughtered the Chinese during the opium wars.
I expect it'll be a lot of ,"Just what we need, somebody really ruthless in business, nobody will push us around with this lot in charge"
Followed by a few years later: "These idiots are screwing us all over with their sharp business practices, how on Earth could we have ever known?" and "I won't have a Chinky on matchdays now until they've gone"!.
British business actions in China are hardly squeaky clean. For instance we have only just given them back Hong Kong, which we effectively demanded from them after the navy slaughtered the Chinese during the opium wars.
Any student of history, especially political history if presented in an unbiased fashion (Grendel, you studied political history did you not? You should know this), would have to admit that in order to build the biggest empire this world has ever known to our knowledge, we Brits were rather nasty people on very many occasions. Had this argument with my mother many decades ago, and she wouldn't talk to me for a long time for saying that the British Tommy was sometimes a right nasty soldier in the service of the empire!
I expect it'll be a lot of ,"Just what we need, somebody really ruthless in business, nobody will push us around with this lot in charge"
Followed by a few years later: "These idiots are screwing us all over with their sharp business practices, how on Earth could we have ever known?" and "I won't have a Chinky on matchdays now until they've gone"!.