"The Nissan story reflects the whole nature of the debate where every new development is forced through the prism of Brexit to produce the killer argument by both sides. Mostly this creates heat, noise, some fog but little light but occasionally a thin shaft breaks through almost accidentally."
The problem is that there are two sides to every development. Nothing is all good or all bad. There are many shades other than black or white.
You will not be surprised to hear that I voted Leave but that was only on balance and I can see the merits in some of the arguments from the other side, particularly economically and in the near future.
I am only prompted to come on here to make a counter argument when remainers express such a jaundiced one sided view of every development. The only semi criticism they make of the EU is along the lines of "The EU isn't perfect but....". However, none of them can bring themselves to elaborate on the EU's failings in the fear that it will balance the debate.
There are a massive amount of politicians from both sides, business leaders and highly respected figures from every field that support leaving the EU but they all dismissed as apparently either having an ulterior motive, are stupid, or want to create anarchy. On the other hand, just wanting to stay in the EU makes you a cross between Einstein and Mother Theresa.