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disingenuous? you're making a distinction between make/assemble/manufacture, i was just highlighting an interesting information on this countries car industry. i'm well aware that cars are "assembled", this is still counts as manufacturing. while your beloved Germany may be better at...

why cant we recognise those key skill areas that we have and which continue? high tech industry, media, dare i say it banking, finance and professional services have managed to keep us a top nation. if not these then what is behind our relative success, because no one can say we havent had any.

the problem with this is its circular: wages dont match the cost of living because theres a lack of wage demand due to employees being subbed. a genius masterstroke to get millions of people dependant on the state. now its £35bn taken out of the economy to give out as the government (rather...

the only possible solution is to trend water until that wage gap balances out to such a point that transportation, energy and other costs mean its just as cheap to make it here. or improve productivity, so more is made per hour. automation is one way to see this achieved, we may well see...

why blame the politicans? when was the last time you went out and brought British? when there was plenty of British electronic goods did you buy the British one or the Japanese/German one? buy BP/Shell or the cheapest fuel? Vodafone or anyone else? champagne or local sparkling? i know...

on the other hand, they are poorer (even accounting for cost of living) and live with lots more pollution that we do. no one wants anything built here, even if its someone elses back garden. 10 years they've already been banging on about Hinkley point, look at the airport debacle. locally...

true, and apparently we make more cars in Nissan's Sunderland plant alone than whole of Italy, and export more than anyone apart from the Germans. not bad for a dead industry.

we make pleanty of things, tend to be higher end tech that isnt so well known, or its designed here for manufacture on large scale plants elsewhere. all your mobiles and tablets will be using ARM designed chips. people want to pay less for goods so companies pay less for components and...