The country should now start to manufacture things again and ban all imports from Chinky land....
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now is the time
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We manufacturer a lot of stuff, but putting together small fiddly stuff like cameras, phones, video recorders etc etc is where the obedient, nimble-fingered (young) asian people have an advantage. And they are cheap because there are LOTS of them.
Plus there is the work ethic, or lack of in this country. Why bother when you can bang out 3 or 4 kids and live off the taxpayer.
Ask Adam if his apprentices would be able to assemble stuff or work repetitively for 9 hours a day ?.
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And, apparently, China has lots of old people too. So not quite sure what point you're making?
Plus the fact that the vast majority of these things are largely machine assembled anyway.
It's not the workforce who decide what is and isn't made here. I'd have thought that rather obvious even to you.
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They still have huge numbers of young people, and you missed the word 'Asian' which includes Malaysia, South Vietnam, Thailand and other places in the region where very high-tech manufacturing is done.
Oh yes it is. Why do you think that Ford gave up making cars in the UK?
Poor quality and productivity. Ford car workers gave their jobs to people over in Continental europe.
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Oh really what should we do first? Condoms, as there is predicted to be a spike in births and divorces for that matter next year!
Brian
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You'd have to ask them. Nissan and BMW seem happy making cars here.
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Whwn Nissan built their factory in Sunderland, they trained all their employees from scratch, in the 'Japanese way'.
They made a point of NOT employing ANYONE who had previously been in any way connected to the UK car industry.
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And BMW chose the Midlands - and used plenty existing car industry workers.
Nissan had little choice since the motor industry was new there. And they chose Sunderland due to government incentives.
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Yes. Sadly the Imp wasn't made from 1" steel plate, so the workers never really got the hang of it. ;-)
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Because the workers were always on strike for money and less work.
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Should have said "more money"
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If breast feeding did not carry on until the age of 16..........
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I rather liked it. Had a pal with one which I drove often. Beautiful engine and box, and quite decent brakes. What was needed was to combine the best bits of it with a Mini.
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You really do need to read up about the history of industrial disputes at Ford UK.
Some of the management at Dagenham were Barking.
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The interesting Imp I came across had a 1.6 Lotus Cortina engine where the back seat should be.
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It was very good at Hill Climbs
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There used to be a Mini with a Rover V-8 in the back - but still front wheel drive. It wasn't. Good smoke generator, though.
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There used to be a drag racing, classic, Fiat 500 ... with a V8 in the back.
And I found a video of a Fiat 126 with one in the front:
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SteveW