On 2005-04-08, beamendsltd <
[email protected]> wrote:
> The real reason for the failure is that we, unlike the French,
> Italians and Germans absolutely insist on not supporting our own
> industry.
Our mass-market car industry's never really been viable as most of it
came from the BL bucket of rot, and never really escaped from the
rotten management that involved. So many decent car manufacturers
disappeared down that hole, previous to that we made excellent cars
and exported them around the world, but the rest of the world caught
up and overtook BL while the old boy network twiddled their thumbs.
As for the rest of our government-owned industries, successive
governments have sold off as much as they can to industry and then
bailed them out with masses of our cash, getting less and less in
return, it's pathetic. The politicians rarely refer to us as anything
other than "consumers" (a pet hate of mine) emphasising their view of
the country as a pool of cash to be shifted around from wallet to
wallet.
Us citizens meanwhile bicker amongst ourselves about 4x4s, yob
culture, religious bigotry, rants about travellers and so on. All
totally irrelevant.
I don't expect it's much different elsewhere, best thing to do is just
to ignore the mayhem and plough your own furrow, something I think
that people in this group can do better than many.
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