Re: Misled Over Brexit ? Certainly Looks That way !
Originally Posted by
Zaphod
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Oh dear.
https://www.google.co.uk
-> " UK macine tool manufacturer" and press "search".
Pages and pages of 'em.
Every one British - although the odd googly pops up as is typical of Google.
Presumably the moaner has never heard of BAE, doesn't realise that the UK leads the world in auto technology which is why most Formula One teams are based here or that our specialist auto industries are globally respected, or accept that our space satellite industry is among the world leaders?
The UK is the world's 9th largest manufacturing nation.
Given that we are #21 by population, that's not bad.
There's room for improvement certainly, but suggesting that we are no more than a nation of "
shopkeepers and insurance salesmen" displays a remarkable ignorance which flies in the face of facts.
If you dig into the M/C Tool companies listed there Zaph, you will
find that they are not manufacturers at all, but importers who stick
labels on! Just like our fridges and computers etc. !!
BAE that you mention is what remains of our arms industry and is
only a shadow of its former self?
You say we are the ninth largest manufacturing nation in the worldl?
Can you name something that we produce??
For instance, we couldn't even produce the ppe crap we needed
recently ! What could be simpler ??
Gawd elp us if banks collapse again !!
Swimmy is quite correct, we are unable to build and maintain our
power stations anymore due to lack of SKILLS mainly and to the
lack of equipment large enough to handle the job, this due to
selling off most of our existing stuff to third world countries and
not replacing it with more moder nstuff .
When l say skills, l don't mean knowing how to work a computer or
Knowing how to fill in a form .
Donkeyman! 👎🤔🤔👎