In article ,
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher
saying something like:

Three million manufacturing jobs have been lost since Labour came into
power in 1997, averaging 300 a day.

And the Tories had nothing to do with it, of course.

That's around half as many as Thaggie put out of work in half the time !
Party politics has little to contribute to economic policy ...

Nick
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