Quote Originally Posted by KerrAvon View Post
I shook my head when I saw WanChai trying to make Dyson into a Brexit issue. In addition to your points, it is noteworthy that Dyson moved his production to Malaysia and Singapore in 2002 - 14 year before the referendum.

The bottom line is that Dyson is now an international company that derives just 4% of its turnover from the UK. It is, nonetheless a timely reminder that countries need to be competitive on issues such as cost and taxation in order to attract and retain businesses.
SIR James Dyson.....

Dyson’s design and commercial success lent authority to his quest to revive the spirit of invention in Britain. In 1997 he published Against the Odds (cowritten with Giles Coren), an autobiographical account of his persistence in the face of discouragement. The following year he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 2002 the James Dyson Foundation was established with the aim of encouraging young people to enter engineering through the awarding of prizes and grants.

In 2009 the Conservative Party invited Dyson to propose policies to encourage innovation, and he replied in March 2010 with Ingenious Britain: Making the UK the Leading High Tech Exporter in Europe, a report that suggested, among other ideas, more freedom for universities to design unconventional engineering curricula and more collaboration between universities and technology companies.....and then his Knighthood followed bless him, courtesy of the Tories.