My bad ! I didn ' t see . That ' s the Leopold FC 660 M clone , I think . <| sep |> But 52 % did vote to leave . And leave we must , regardless of what that looks like and what the varying positions of the majority were . Because they all held at least one same position LEAVE . The Lib Dems , at least initially , held the position that they would block leaving altogether . <| sep |> Assist of the year <| sep |> Very simply , the majority of our GDP is in services . They sell people ' s time . When there is a demand for services you will find that there is a fairly rapid response in expansion of existing companies and creation of new ones to service that demand . The fortunes of the economy are quite closely related to current sentiment . Above this , they tend to be more flexible in ability to stay financially viable in a downturn compare a hairdresser or a bank employee to a factory worker , when the factory goes there isn ' t much you can do . Extractive and processing industries are different , they tend to require significant lead times before the effects of investment show up . E . g . When building a factory you have maybe 1 year of investment planning and early design , then you approve the next phase of detailed design and then finally move to construction and you ' re not operating it and making a profit until 45 years down the line . On top of this when they do stop operating the whole of the surrounding area suddenly loses loads of money all at once . For major capital projects to come together you need several successive years of stability and positive sentiment . That hasn ' t been there internationally in many industries for the past 9 years . There have been spouts of positive sentiment but it has tended to drive early stage design a service that the uk excels in and then projects have been killed before construction due to financing difficulties or changes in the economics . It also shouldn ' t be understated how much the existence of the welfare state evens out economic downturns , and how cutting it back makes us more susceptible as a nation to boom and bust