"What the Uk really needs is to return to making things and that is where the energy and money must be spent."

Make what??

To "make something" it first has to be something people want/need. Having found that "WE" (the UK) has to make it better cheaper and faster than anybody else.

The dumbing down of our nation has left us rather poorly placed to achieve either the identification of the product, or the ability to develope and produce it.

Where on earth do you get the idea that armaments manufacturers NEED wars?? They don't.

Tobacco companies?? When I smoked I seem to remember that I took it up by choice then gave it up likewise.

Oh those wicked companies.

What the UK needs is to GTF out of the EU and rediscover that there is a whole world out there to trade with, to engage with.