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Originally posted by AtW View PostThe point that British PMs seem to have lost on is that good things that you only make in your country and don't give technology to others will be desired and will sell. Germans will never sell Mercedes to Indians, Chinese etc, they have pride not to do it and frankly the way they won't they will never even be in this position, yet in the UK iconic car brands are on a cheap fire sale from time to time - and this happens in country that started industrial revolution!
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Originally posted by AtW View PostRubbish. UK has got very small army, do you think you make more arms than Russia, USA, China? I think not. What you have are pretty expensive airplanes sold to arabs who do this in exchange for bribes. Would you have sold this stuff to them if you did not pay bribes? I doubt.
Income:
1 x plane = £1m
Expenditure:
1 x cost of production = £0.9m
1 x bribe = £0.2m
Result = -£0.1m
Genius!
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostAnd dodn't forget we're the second largest arms manufacturer in the world.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostWhatever excuses are made the fact is that in the sixties and seventies both management and workers got complacent and lazy and let things drift. That combined with the semi-religious ideology of the free-market in the 80s and the results were the wholesale destruction of manufacturing industry.
It's instructive that the French managed to save Renault, which had many of the same labour problems. It seems every single country has a national long-term strategy except the UK.
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Whatever excuses are made the fact is that in the sixties and seventies both management and workers got complacent and lazy and let things drift. That combined with the semi-religious ideology of the free-market in the 80s and the results were the wholesale destruction of manufacturing industry.
It's instructive that the French managed to save Renault, which had many of the same labour problems. It seems every single country has a national long-term strategy except the UK.
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Originally posted by wendigo100 View PostAh, but the point was that we weren't bombed so much that we had to rebuild everything from scratch. I wasn't arguing that Gerry and Tojo got aid and we didn't.
What did we spend ours on?
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostAfraid not. We got more money from the Marshall Plan than anyone else
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
Just the usual ineptness and frittering away, just as we did with North Sea Oil.
What did we spend ours on?
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Originally posted by Troll View PostSo why are we able to successfully build Triumph motorcycles again?
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Originally posted by wendigo100 View PostThe very fact that we were not bombed out.
Bombed to flip, Marshal Plan, and voila - brand spanking new modern industry. Same thing happened for the Japs.
Meanwhile we still send kids up chimneys. Well I do anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
Just the usual ineptness and frittering away, just as we did with North Sea Oil.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostHeck, if bombed out Germany could restore its manufacturing, how the hell UK could not?
Bombed to flip, Marshal Plan, and voila - brand spanking new modern industry. Same thing happened for the Japs.
Meanwhile we still send kids up chimneys. Well I do anyway.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostYou forget we tried but failed. British Leyland was a joke.
Ok, maybe UK can't build cars. Fine. But there were plenty of things build in UK well - I reckon the fundamental mistakes must have been stopping investment into R&D so you just slipped behind. Heck, if bombed out Germany could restore its manufacturing, how the hell UK could not?
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Originally posted by AtW View PostThe point that British PMs seem to have lost on is that good things that you only make in your country and don't give technology to others will be desired and will sell. Germans will never sell Mercedes to Indians, Chinese etc, they have pride not to do it and frankly the way they won't they will never even be in this position, yet in the UK iconic car brands are on a cheap fire sale from time to time - and this happens in country that started industrial revolution!
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The point that British PMs seem to have lost on is that good things that you only make in your country and don't give technology to others will be desired and will sell. Germans will never sell Mercedes to Indians, Chinese etc, they have pride not to do it and frankly the way they won't they will never even be in this position, yet in the UK iconic car brands are on a cheap fire sale from time to time - and this happens in country that started industrial revolution!
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