Payback may be a bitch, but she tastes sweet as honey
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of guys. In order to make sure of their own Opel factories, Germany destroyed the Fiat bid for the Opel-Vauxhall company, broke European law with enormous state subsidies, and, even more inexcusably, brought in the Russians, who are not our friends and who have quite enough influence in our continent already. Now GM have decided that they are not selling at all, and that they will restructure their European operation instead; which, in the present circumstances of high Euro and low GB pound, means thousands of jobs going in Germany, and few or none in Britain. Germany really must learn some time that brute self-serving attitudes such as they showed throughout this saga are self-defeating. There is a place for honour in international relations, and if you show none, none will be shown to you.