"Wrong again Jim!"
Course I am Keith
#"The Manufacturer" - you have to be joking.
This is a industrialists magazine based on telling you what a good job they are doing - a 'promo' - what else are they going to tell us?
It headlines the car industry - Britain's role in the Car industry is to assemble parts made elsewhere - you may call that "manufacturing" if you wish.
Same with electonics - assembling components made (often very shoddily) in some of the poorest parts of the world for some of the worst wages and under horrific conditions.
We are reminded where our textiles come from every time a death=trap of a factory falls down burying hundreds of workers who were exiting on survival rate wages.
Our manufacturing industries are gone, as are the skills that ran them.
I have worked with skilled craftsmen, boilermakers, riveters, lathe turners, mold-makers....... men who had skills that would blind you - gone.
I sent years learning to wind armatures for electric motors,from hand drills to huge generators - doubt if there are any left now.
It would be fine if the "progress" that has been made benefited us all, but, as society is rin for profit which benefits a tiny, privileged minority - result - lengthening dole queues , homelessness, a destabalised population and a massive gap between having and doing without.
The maufacturer - give us a break!
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Jim Carroll