... mark another nail in the balance of payments defecit...
The worlds largest container ship eventually stops off at El Dorado to dump 13,000 containers of christmas toys etc from China (that used to be made in this country), and it's marked as a cause for celebration .. that the UK can offer one of the few docks that supports the enormous ships bringing in the goods we used to produce from thousands of miles away...hooray.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6117080.stm
"This is a great day for Britain. The FACT that we are one of the few European countries who has a single port available to allow enormous foreign built and registered ships to import goods, that further erode our balance of payments deficit, is a cause of celebration. Forget that we were, in my own lifetime, the premier trading and shipbuilding nation. Sorted. Next."
- John Reid
The worlds largest container ship eventually stops off at El Dorado to dump 13,000 containers of christmas toys etc from China (that used to be made in this country), and it's marked as a cause for celebration .. that the UK can offer one of the few docks that supports the enormous ships bringing in the goods we used to produce from thousands of miles away...hooray.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6117080.stm
"This is a great day for Britain. The FACT that we are one of the few European countries who has a single port available to allow enormous foreign built and registered ships to import goods, that further erode our balance of payments deficit, is a cause of celebration. Forget that we were, in my own lifetime, the premier trading and shipbuilding nation. Sorted. Next."
- John Reid
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