one man keeping a close eye on developments is paul mauer half he's from the society of motion manufacturers and traders a car lobby group he says bracks it could cause the british automotive industry to fall behind in terms of technology we've seen investment in the car industry plummet in the 1st 6 months of this year to about $90000000.00 from an annual run rate of about 2 and a half 1000000000 so just a serious concern on top of that you've had companies spending at least half a 1000000000 pounds on no deal continuously measures and this is money that would be better spent on the search and development and innovating electrician the good fish group has seen sales pull 25 percent this year. after a 15 percent decline in 2018 the boss says bra. that is you know the only reason his plans for the future still involve the e.u. . we're planning to open a plant in slovakia. we have looked at several sites and interviewed a team of people who'd like to work with us. soon as we know what we need to make or what our customers would like us to make for them outside of briggs it will open up in slov