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Maybe you don't read all the posts? I already made the point that, contrary to what practically every poster on here believes (because they've been told it), the value of UK manufacturing has continued to steadily increase. It's more than double now what it was in 1950, though most of that...

Just wrong. It didn't start then, it was the continuation of a trend, and the same thing happened in every major economy.

The graph is already inflation-adjusted. The dips in it occur where there are recessions, such as in the 70s and 2008-2010 (when Britain had a Labour government). The value of manufacturing output was some 20% higher by 1990 than it was in 1979, which again doesn't fit your meme. What it...

Despite what practically every contributor to this thread seems to think, the value of British manufacturing has risen consistently since the 2nd World War. Traditional heavy industries were in terminal decline way before Thatcher, and anyone who cares to look at the experience of any other...