(May 2, 2015 at 11:30 am)Pandæmonium Wrote:Manufacturing didn't die it was murdered with malice afore thought by Thatcher who wanted to break the power of the unions. Our manufacturing industries were sacrificed to her vanity.(May 2, 2015 at 6:26 am)I_am_not_mafia Wrote: I actually think Britain would be a much better place if the politicians accepted this.
Sorry but this just isn't true.
Sure we don't have an empire anymore, but the UK is still one of the most powerful richest places in the world. We live in a technological and medical wonderland.
The UK is extremely powerful relative the vast majority of other states in the world. I'm not speaking as a patriot or any of that bollocks, but just stating a fact. When people say the UK is irrelevant I think they're talking in the context of an imperial hangover and not the current context of it being inferior militarily but still exerting a massively disproportionate influence on world affairs relative to its size, a leader in research, finance and manufacturing (yes, even the latter despite what repeated stories of manufacturing dying in the UK say).
The reason this financial crisis is taking so long to end is precisely because we can't export our way out of trouble because we have no major industries, with the possible exception of the arms industry.
We have become a service economy dependent on supporting the financial sector and that is all.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
