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Originally Posted by cmonstanley
never heard so much twaddle in my life.  everybody knows the tories destroyed the apprenticeships by bringing in the yop,yts and destroying british industry. the apprentiship you are talking about was dumbed down it was a modern apprenticeship with less goverment funding and less training and another way to bring unemployment figures down,just like the benefits culture the tories created in the 80s.thatcher and lamont said high unemployment was a risk worth taking just to keep inflation down. in 1989 the tories freezed grants and reduced courses to save money,so you you have been ill advised on your information the facts and figures speak for themselves.you cant rewrite history  while the tories were the party of law and order crime doubled under thatcher while she created unemployment. people have short memories.the tories opposed the national minimum wage,just think what the eastern europeans would be doing now, undercutting the average british worker.debt was made easier to get under the tory bankers,i just dont get it there was a credit crunch and they want us to borrow more to get out of it.its time to create jobs with a decent wage not downgrade jobs . |
If we are talking about twaddle then your post must take the biscuit.
The destruction of British manufacturaing took hold when we started to export jobs abroad.
A local firm which you may have heard of Howard and Bulloughs were a great engineering firm employing many men and women in our small town........they started selling the machinery abroad...machinery which would make goods that we had previously made in the Uk....and making them cheaper, because the employment costs in the countries these machines sold to, was lower that the costs here in the UK...making their goods cheaper than ours.
We were penalised for importing goods from abroad, but were being told that exporting was good...yes the exporting of ready made products would have been good, but the export of Machinery to make those productswas not so good...but it was backed by The Queens Award to Industry(Export).
This was first awarded in 1966...long before Margaret Thatcher came into power.
Once these jobs were gone they were gone for good. Never to return.
Tea towels(and a multitude of other woven cotton goods) that used to be made in Lancashire came into the country from Portugal...at a cost that we could not dream of making them for....and thus our industry declined.
The motor industry went in much the same way.
It is no damn good training apprentices if there is no industry to train them in...and no jobs for them to do.
And please do not get me started ont eh benefits culture...I just do NOT want to go there!!!!!