Keeping Dead Industries Alive....

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by cashman

Speaking of oil in lamp DtheP, 1986 was a bit too late, The rot started more n 30 yrs before that wi the cotton industry, old looms etc, replaced by new in India n eastern places, also No health n safety, pay much less, fer obvious reasons, If re-investment had occured in the U.K. the decline of industry would have been much slower.

And who manufactured these looms and sold them out to these far Eastern places?....I am sure you know as I do quite a few out-fitters from round here who made tidy little sums working out in these woe-begotten places showing Johnny foreigner how to operate em.
Selling off the family silver some would say...others moi included would say the inexorable march of globalisation.

[accyman]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

I could never imagine a boy and girl having a romantic conversation in German but I suppose they must have done or there wouldn't be any Germans.

i think in germany it goes a little like this

"lie down helga i vill onzly do zis vonce "

[Neil]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Oh I forgot, and wouldn't Accyweb be dull as well

Oh yes because all this political nonsense is making thread reading really exciting

[accyman]

maybe we should have a referendum on if we should have political debates in general chat

if you elect me i will vote on allowing this referendum to take place

honest i pwomise

i dont actually know what im standing for but vote for me anyway

[Neil]

Originally Posted by accyman

maybe we should have a referendum on if we should have political debates in general chat

if you elect me i will vote on allowing this referendum to take place

honest i pwomise

i dont actually know what im standing for but vote for me anyway

You can always change your mind when you get in

[cashman]

Originally Posted by DtheP47

And who manufactured these looms and sold them out to these far Eastern places?....I am sure you know as I do quite a few out-fitters from round here who made tidy little sums working out in these woe-begotten places showing Johnny foreigner how to operate em.
Selling off the family silver some would say...others moi included would say the inexorable march of globalisation.

Well lets be honest, they had to sell somewhere, if the stupid gits here would not invest in new stuff? But like all there ilk preferred to stuff the back pockets! what had these manufacturers to do,go bust as well?

[cmonstanley]

politics affects every little thing you do in life,to catching the bus(every private bus firm is subsidized .so when here is cuts the bus fare goes up.the railways the prices go up even when the subsidies stay the same as they have to pay their shareholders .the price of food with vat etc.internet charges the tv everything is affected by politics. moving it away from general chat would be impossible.

[GEaston]

The shareholders are almost always pension firms. So for all of the big firms, everything from M&S through to bus companies, rail etc the majority owners are Standard life, Scottish widows, Aberdeen etc providing pensioners with pensions. It's not a bad thing that shareholders make a return because that's how people live in retirement.

[accyman]

Originally Posted by Neil

You can always change your mind when you get in

now that would be teh actions of a right arse

[accyman]

instead of talking politics why dont we talk about religeon


that should calm things down

[Less]

Originally Posted by accyman

instead of talking politics why dont we talk about religeon


that should calm things down

Hallaypigginlooyah my son!

That will get restless telling us what a devout atheist he is.

[GEaston]

2012 was a record year for British car production. We made more cars in Britain than ever before. Land Rover, Range Rover, Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin and Nissan all hitting production records exporting all over the world, particularly in Asia.

How many here want British Leyland back? And why? A business that was bad to begin with, finished not by Maggie but by union practices combining with a terrible product.

Sure all these companies are now owned overseas, but so what? The manufacturing and jobs are UK and as noted earlier UK pension funds are big investors in these companies. In car technology the UK, and specifically the Midlands today, leads the world (formula 1 type technology).

[Restless]

Originally Posted by Less

Hallaypigginlooyah my son!

That will get restless telling us what a devout atheist he is.

I think of myself as kinda borderline agnostic/atheist

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Neil

Oh yes because all this political nonsense is making thread reading really exciting

Apart from political threads there's very little posting going on

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Neil

You can always change your mind when you get in

Think that's happened somewhere before, can't for the life in me think where though