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Z: Do you think that England can build any commercial relations with
China or other Asian states?
B: Of course, we have already had discussions with the Chinese government
on big infrastructure projects in the UK. The good thing with infrastructure,
which people worry about is that money coming in, but you cannot remove a
road or a railway or whatever those are assets. I think that there’ll be more
money coming in to invest in the UK
from China, America and a lot of the
other country countries, like India. There live a billion people; also China
h a s a b i l l i o n p e o p l e . T h e y n o t o n l y w i l l c o m e i n t o t h e U K b u t h o p e f u l l y, t h e y
will consume UK products.
Z: In London protest movements became more active. A large number of
people demand a new referendum; many British recognize that they did not
expect such a result of the vote. Whether the repeated stage of the vote will
be carried out?
В : I w o u l d l i k e u s i n E n g l a n d t o r e p l a y t h e s e m i - f i n a l o f t h e Wo r l d C u p . We
lost to Croatia. I don’t like that result,
again?
so why don’t we play that match
We ’ l l k e e p p l a y i n g u n t i l w e w i n a n d t h e n w h e n w e w i n t h a t ’ l l b e
Z : Ye s , y o u a r e r i g h t . B u t i n t h i s q u e s t i o n , I ’ m t a l k i n g a b o u t f o r e i g n good, but that is not what referendum is about. The referendum was a once-
companies owning offices in London. in-a-lifetime vote that is what Prime Minister David Cameron said; you
can’t keep this is the EU does this always, they did this in Denmark, they did
B : T h e y m a y, с o m p a n i e s c o m e a n d g o . T h a t d o e s n ’ t w o r r y m e a t a l l . T h e f a c t this in Ireland. If they don’t like the result, they say: «well you vote again!»
is that post the vote on Brexit we have been creating more jobs. Will some Yo u v o t e a g a i n , t i l l y o u m a k e t h e r i g h t d e c i s i o n a n d t h i s i s t h e p r o b l e m w e
c o m p a n i e s l e a v e ? Ye s , b u t o t h e r c o m p a n i e s w i l l c o m e . I t ’ s n o t a o n e - w a y have with the EU. It is this elite, arrogant, thing that we know best. And they
f l o w, a n d s o m e c o m p a n i e s w i l l s a y : “ w e d o n ’ t w a n t t o b e i n t h e U K a n y m o r e , ” don’t.
that’s fine. There’ll be other companies, which we have trade deals with.
They’ll say yes, we want to set up in the UK because we’re also going to have Z: But can it provoke such option radicalization in the region and increasing
t h e m o s t a tt r a c t i v e t a x e n v i r o n m e n t f o r b u s i n e s s . S o b u s i n e s s e s w a n t t o of protest movements, because as I know Scotland was against Brexit and
be in a low tax environment, that’s why I think that while some companies maybe they will try to do one more referendum about independence?
m a y g o , m o s t w i l l s t a y. I t h i n k a l o t o f t h e b a n k s t h a t h a v e b e e n m a k i n g
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threatening noises to leave, actually want to be in London. London is the B : T h e v o t e o n S c o tt i s h i n d e p e n d e n c e w a s a o n c e - i n - a - g e n e r a t i o n v o t e , s o
financial center of Europe and will stay it even after Brexit. About new no. And I don’t think anyway if there was a vote in Scotland again, that it
p a r t n e r s h i p s , t h e r e a r e o n l y 2 7 c o u n t r i e s i n t h e E U n o w, and there are would change the result any more than I think by the way that if there was a
another 173 countries in the world. I am sure, given, we’re the fifth largest vote on a referendum on being in the EU. The result would be different, so
e c o n o my i n t h e wo rld , w i t h h u g e s p e n d i n g p owe r, t h a t e ve r y c o u n t r y i n t h e actually I don’t think either outcome would be different, but both polls, the
world wants to trade with the UK even the EU.. condition of the referendums but they were once in a generation decision.
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