"Since the Brexit vote many many business partners of ours have told that, because of the loss of frictionless trade, customs checks, bureaucracy, regulatory alignment etc. that they are actively looking for an alternative to British suppliers. And i can't blame them one bit - we would be doing the same."

In the UK and the EU there are literally thousands of politicians, civil servants, bureaucrats, technocrats etc, all paid from our taxes, all employed to work on our behalf, for our benefit. I would have expected these people to use their best endeavours to find solutions to the many and varied problems that will arise when we leave, instead we have political chicanery, with the EU side especially putting their political project first to the detriment of the economic well being of both the EU and the UK. In these circumstances, instead of potential economic damage being mitigated, it's likely to be magnified, but there is little I can do about it, or any of us, we're in their hands.

Your business partners are looking for alternative suppliers, one in seven of the cars produced in Germany are exported to the UK, I wonder if the Germans are anticipating similar problems and are looking for alternatives markets for 18 billion euros worth of automobiles ?