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Tim Streater wrote:
Quite. And having effectively curtailed unions by abolishing the
industries they were once strong in, we have ended up with a
country that needs to import so much manufactured goods.

Those industries abolished themselves, with the help of the unions.

Not expected you to know the real reason - lack of investment. The British
disease. Given how other countries with a similar or better standard of
living still manage to make such things.

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