""Don was right in that the Unions had way too much power and were fucking up our manufacturing base, but then Thatcher use their recalcitrance as an excuse to put thousands of viable business on the scrapheap and destroy the manufacturing base remaining.""

Interestingly, a small amount of research on the internet turns up the FACT that the UK is currently the seventh largest manufacturing nation on the planet, which, given the size of our population is pretty good.

It seems that, while the Chinese are selling us cheap mass produced consumer goods, we have the bulk of the market for the high end goods which we now manufacture and sell to the Chinese and almost everyone else.

Surprised the hell out of me.

Don T.