Chapter 883: Still strong despite old age

Of course, with Barron's changes, the current England is somewhat different from the previous life.

Let's not talk about the financial industry - although Barron's main profitable business is financial investment, London has always been the world's financial center in the previous life. Even under various pressures from the United States, it can still be comparable to New York in the financial industry.

And in some aspects, such as the foreign exchange market and the settlement market, it is still stronger than New York.

In terms of manufacturing, although some industries controlled by Barron have investments in China, the transferred industries are not top-notch manufacturing industries (of course, even so, such manufacturing industries are still difficult to own compared to high-tech industries in Europe and the United States. More than 80% of the countries in the world are difficult to have), and the most advanced industries, such as luxury cars, chips, communication technology and other industries, are still in England.

This is a great improvement compared to the original England in time and space, where related industries were acquired by other European and American companies and industries began to transfer.

You should know that under the system of Europe and the United States, no matter what kind of political party or members of Congress, their political demands are supported by relevant capital behind them.

To put it bluntly, in Britain, the Eurosceptics and the pro-Europeans are essentially driven by relevant capital behind them. For example, in the original time and space, Britain's manufacturing industry was very small compared with other European countries such as France and Germany, and Britain's most important industries are finance and services.

So for the negotiations with China, a very important trading partner in Europe, the content of the agreement between the two sides, as the leading EU, France and Germany, first consider the interest clauses of the manufacturing industry, which is very uncomfortable for Britain.

Because Britain can make money from China in finance and services, but this is not the interest of other EU countries, then the focus of the negotiations on the relevant agreements between the two sides must be on manufacturing, which will damage Britain's interests instead-for example, in Barron's previous life, the EU's barriers to electric vehicles against China, which is very important for major automobile production countries such as France and Germany, and other EU countries with many related industrial supporting facilities.

But this was not necessary for Britain, whose domestic automobile industry was already sluggish at the time - so Britain was relatively open to Chinese electric vehicles at the time.

These demands of capital or industry also represent the demands of the "financial backers" of those MPs, which are reflected in British politics, and naturally the power of Euroscepticism will increase greatly.

However, Britain is not without the need for manufacturing and exports, so it can only be said that although Euroscepticism gradually dominates the mainstream within the Conservative Party, the attitude of the Labour Party is still mainly pro-European - when Blair was in office, he actively promoted the integration of Britain with the European Union, and Brown's "Eurosceptic" proposition is still mainly concentrated in finance - after all, he was born as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he still attaches great importance to Britain's financial status.

Then Barron hopes to change Britain's final Brexit result. In addition to financial support for some pro-European organizations to promote the public, more importantly, it is to expand the strength of Britain's manufacturing industry so that Britain can pursue its interests in this regard, at least not to deviate from the EU.

Of course, if Cameron still calls for a Brexit referendum if he is re-elected before the next general election, then Barron does not mind using any means to promote the Labour Party to win the election. After all, he still maintains contact with the Labour Party. The head of the Prosperous Earth Foundation is the brother of the current Labour Party leader, and he still has a close relationship with Brown.

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It is approaching Christmas again, and Barron and his family are preparing to leave for Lanai after Christmas - they also invited Prince William and Princess Cather's family. Cather had just given birth and was originally planning to go to the Scottish manor for recuperation, but the climate of Lanai is more pleasant than that of England, so William accepted the invitation.

The reason for choosing to leave after Christmas is that they spent last Christmas on Lanai. Although the climate there is warm, the snowy scene is more atmospheric for Christmas.

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"I always think that only fuel cars are for men. The sound of the engine makes people excited. Electric cars have to use speakers to play sounds, just like sissies wearing fake beards!"

In the mansion in Regent Park, Barron gathered with Tamaran Ecclestone's family.

F1 Group President Bernie Ecclestone said this to Barron.

What he talked about was the electric sports car event held in England this year. Bernie didn't seem to be interested in electric cars.

"But you can't deny that electric cars will be a trend, Dad."

Tamaran's work involves car reviews. She was on the side of the sofa, looking at the market magazine in her hand. When she heard the words next to her, she couldn't help but say.

"Even if electric cars develop well, they will not replace fuel cars in the field of racing, because the most attractive part of racing, in addition to the constantly improving engine technology, is the driving skills of the drivers. Those top drivers have developed this into art, but electric cars..."

Bernie shook his head:

"There is always something missing."

It is worth mentioning that this year, Bernie started his third marriage. Bernie, who is 82 years old, married the 35-year-old supermodel Fabiana - his young wife is 7 years older than Tamaran, but 21 years younger than Bernie's eldest daughter...

Of course, this is not the most outrageous, because Barron knows that in the previous life, Fabiana gave birth to Bernie's first son when he was nearly 89 years old...

At that time, Bernie's eldest daughter was already 65 years old!

Barron also had to sigh that Bernie, this old guy, is really... strong and vigorous.

Speaking of which, since buying the F1 Group, Barron has rarely cared about this company, but occasionally sees some relevant data from the files sorted out by his assistant.

In addition, the British Motor Group currently owns two F1 teams, namely Aston Martin and McLaren.

After returning to the F1 arena, Aston Martin can only say that its performance is pretty good, but the performance of the McLaren team has always been good.

Bernie is very satisfied with Barron's "decentralization". Although he is over 80 years old, he is still obsessed with F1 events. It seems that he really loves this sport.