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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
That sounds like a damned good idea!
Manufacturing in this country has not gone altogether, but the majority of it has.
China can make stuff so much cheaper...and cheaper sells.
This isn't a new phenomenon. In the mid sixties I worked in a weaving mill making high quality mattress tickings. The place closed and took all its capacity for production to South Africa. It was cheaper to manufacture the goods out there.
You can't turn back the clock......you have to live with the constraints of the situation you find yourself with.
This coalition government have only been in place 16 months...yet they are expected to put right the things that were wrong for many years during a new labour administration....and things that were admitted at the recent Labour party conference.........so it isn't jsut me saying they got it badly wrong...they(new Labour politicians) are saying it too.
Personally I couldn't care less if we were governed by a two headed monkey, as long as they could sort out the many things that ail our country at the moment.
Oh yeah, if you're buying I'll have a pint of Stella. (do they do that where you are Eric...stella, I mean)
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Yup ... we have Stella; but right now I'm having a Bomber
And there's lots left in the fridge, just behind the deer roast, to the left of the moose steak.
Sure they make things cheaper in China; but, have you ever noticed major corporations that move overseas passing on the savings to the consumer? No way, the extra money goes into the pockets of the chief executives and the major shareholders.
And from what I hear, you are governed by a two headed monkey. One head is called David and the other Nick.
