This topic started with a long list of British manufacturers/companies that, since Margaret Thatchers government arrived in 1979, have shipped production/jobs abroad to the point where,apart from foreign owned car manufacturers here in the UK & Rolls Royce aero engines in Derby, I cant think of any other British owned manufacturing companies based mainly here. So when posts on here suggest European single market will still want what we manufacture can anyone tell me what these British products are?
I may be naive but, as someone who grew up here at a time when we were a major exporting economy,(we had to be after WW2 to repay our debts to USA-& the motto then was "Export or Die"), it seems that we are predominantly a "service" economy now with our income coming from banking & foreign investment (invisible earnings) & assembling products manufactured overseas.
About the only thing I am sure about these days is that I distrust almost everything the politicians say.
So how can we as an electorate be expected to make "informed" decisions affecting our childrens future when governed by such an assortment of self-serving & untruthful characters (many with hidden agendas) many of whom have little or no "connection" with the people they are elected to represent?
Surely our present system isnt working and we need to make some big changes starting with the "quality" of our elected MPs.
I cant remember a time when we have had to witness such a shambles ranging from incompetence to nasty tactics.Makes us seem a laughing stock to the rest of the world.
I may be naive but, as someone who grew up here at a time when we were a major exporting economy,(we had to be after WW2 to repay our debts to USA-& the motto then was "Export or Die"), it seems that we are predominantly a "service" economy now with our income coming from banking & foreign investment (invisible earnings) & assembling products manufactured overseas.
About the only thing I am sure about these days is that I distrust almost everything the politicians say.
So how can we as an electorate be expected to make "informed" decisions affecting our childrens future when governed by such an assortment of self-serving & untruthful characters (many with hidden agendas) many of whom have little or no "connection" with the people they are elected to represent?
Surely our present system isnt working and we need to make some big changes starting with the "quality" of our elected MPs.
I cant remember a time when we have had to witness such a shambles ranging from incompetence to nasty tactics.Makes us seem a laughing stock to the rest of the world.