This happened in Scotland a few years ago. Scottish Enterprise and the embryonic Scottish Parliament enticed Hyundai's semi-conductor business to set up shop in

This happened in Scotland a few years ago. Scottish Enterprise and the embryonic Scottish Parliament enticed Hyundai's semi-conductor business to set up shop in Dunfermline. Millions were spent on inducements on Hydundai for them to then pull out of the deal and go somewhere cheaper. Ironically the building is now occupied by one of Amazon's distribution centres, no doubt funded by more public money and employing staff on zero hour contracts with terrible conditions (which the Scottish press reported on). I wonder why we can't spend these vast sums of money nurturing local indigenous SME's and startups (and I don't mean the sort that involve glorified ToDo lists).