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Agree entirely :thumbsup: The debate though is that we have largely abandoned manufacturing for service based industries. Could we have championed both? Who knows?

Interesting graph. I so love stats and what they can be used to "prove". From my perspective this might be seen to show the impact of key periods in the creation of modern "Tory Values" (ie. The periods of relative decline) and when adjusted for inflation even more so. Indeed if you build in...

Thatcher deliberately killed our manufacturing base when she decided to turn us into a service economy. She broke the unions who might have opposed her. She allowed whole industries to slide into decline. She killed house building by selling off the existing (state owned) housing stock. She was...