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Post by Dan Dare on Feb 12, 2024 13:08:11 GMT
The BBC has a long-running programme ‘Inside the Factory’ which has run to eight series and almost 70 episodes. A straightforward analysis of the subjects chosen gives, I suggest, an reasonable indication of what the UK manufactures in the 21st century:
Food and drink – 49 episodes Clothing and footwear – 5 episodes Consumer goods incl personal care – 4 Lo-tech mechanical eg bicycles – 4 Home furnishings – 3 Complex machinery – 3 The three companies selected in the complex machinery sector were JCB, Alexander Dennis buses and the French-owned Alstom train factory in Derby.
Completely absent are any large-scale manufacturing operations in what might be called ‘sunrise’ industries producing high-tech goods in fields such as biotech, semiconductors, IT, aerospace, alternative energy or even ‘traditional’ high-value capital goods such as power generation and switchgear, aircraft, ships and other transportation equipment. It’s a very sorry state of affairs. |
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Post by Vinny on Feb 12, 2024 13:13:10 GMT
Decades of industrial decline occurred whilst we were in the EU, what did you expect?
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Post by Dan Dare on Feb 12, 2024 13:16:23 GMT
Are you suggesting there is a correlation between the two and that successive British governments had no involvement or responsibility?
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Post by Orac on Feb 12, 2024 13:46:43 GMT
The parts of our social order that nurtured innovation have been cornered, undermined and dismantled.
I think the plan was we would all make a living by selling houses to each other and wining the lottery.
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