Dave Plowman (News) wrote
dennis@home wrote

Most of the trouble was poor productivity.. and that was
down to there being no point in investing in manufacturing
while the unions are going to demand more to operate it.

No need to invest at all. Just make sure the shareholders got a good
dividend.

That isn't going to happen without any investment.

Until everything was so clapped out the only answer was closure.

Didn’t happen with the oil and gas industry.