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Previously on "Bristol and Glasgow: 'super cities' that will lead manufacturing renaissance"

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Well Silicon Glen is f*cked.
    You heard it here first Churchy

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    Because its biggest industry is welfare. As welfare grows more people become poorer and therefore rely on the state The state in turn becomes more powerful as the people who depend upon it vote for those who are most likely to grow it.

    So anyone stupid enough to set up a business (other than drugs and alcohol related), having been led there by the pied piper of the Welfare state with promises of low taxes and cheap skilled labour, they will become established and then subsequently be bled dry.
    Well Silicon Glen is f*cked.

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by russell View Post
    Glasgow is over 500 years old and the third most populated city in the U.K. and has been growing all the time, why is it suddenly going to go into decline?
    Because its biggest industry is welfare. As welfare grows more people become poorer and therefore rely on the state The state in turn becomes more powerful as the people who depend upon it vote for those who are most likely to grow it.

    So anyone stupid enough to set up a business (other than drugs and alcohol related), having been led there by the pied piper of the Welfare state with promises of low taxes and cheap skilled labour, they will become established and then subsequently be bled dry.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by russell View Post
    Glasgow is over 500 years old and the third most populated city in the U.K. and has been growing all the time, why is it suddenly going to go into decline?
    Here fishy!

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by russell View Post
    Glasgow is over 500 years old and the third most populated city in the U.K. and has been growing all the time, why is it suddenly going to go into decline?
    Because sasguru says so.

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  • russell
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    WHS.
    The future of Bristol and Glasgow and most other cities ,with the exception of London which is something like a city-state, is terminal decline.
    Glasgow is over 500 years old and the third most populated city in the U.K. and has been growing all the time, why is it suddenly going to go into decline?

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    It is all hot air.
    WHS.
    The future of Bristol and Glasgow and most other cities ,with the exception of London which is something like a city-state, is terminal decline.

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Bristol and Glasgow: 'super cities' that will lead manufacturing renaissance | Business | The Guardian






    It's very possible that Glasgow will no longer be a British city in a few years.
    It is all hot air.

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Glasgow is forecast to becoming a leading international force in renewable energy
    Have they worked out how to convert pissed Weegie rants to electricity?

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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Half of it was ours in the first place.
    And the Irish has the other half!

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    Can we give you Liverpool as well?
    Half of it was ours in the first place.

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  • Troll
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    It's very possible that Glasgow will no longer be a British city in a few years.
    Can we give you Liverpool as well?

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  • Bristol and Glasgow: 'super cities' that will lead manufacturing renaissance

    Bristol and Glasgow: 'super cities' that will lead manufacturing renaissance | Business | The Guardian

    Bristol and Glasgow have emerged as the "super cities" that will lead the rebalancing of British manufacturing towards hi-tech production and renewable energy respectively, HSBC predicts.
    Glasgow is forecast to becoming a leading international force in renewable energy

    It's very possible that Glasgow will no longer be a British city in a few years.

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