Its the global economy. If you want to buy a good quality, hand made garden set from a company in Bradford then you can still do that. Its just that most people would rather buy something cheap from B&Q with the expectation that they'll be back buying another set in a couple of years when the...
Exactly. We make (and invent) plenty of things.
Times have changed and countries like China and India now specialise in heavy industry because they have the physical resources, the space (and critically) a readily available, cheap workforce to work in factories. While the UK (and other...