On 14/02/2018 19:10, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
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.


Its hardly surprising people didn't invest in the car industry..
if they built a new paint shop that only needed half the men to do the
job the unions still insisted on having the original number and wanted
more pay for doing an easier job.