Get out of the EEC. Then we would be free to subsidise manufacturers, in order to provide employment for people. The inability to encourage industry or investment in jobs, by means of financial support, or reduced outgoings, like business rate rebates, among others, is a serious restriction on our ability to increase manufacturing, and thereby employment in the UK.
Many of the closures blamed on Thatcher, and her inheritors have been brought about at the behest of the EEC. The almost total destruction of our fishing industry is a direct consequence of selling them down the swanee, as part of the price paid to join this association of fiddlers, and overpaid bureaucrats. Same organisation hasn't had their acounts signed off for about 10 years. If it was business it would be closed down.
At least Thatcher managed to obtain a rebate of part of our contributions, which TB later gave back. Who then is the betrayer of British industriy, and interests?