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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
The Government must do more to protect jobs - simple
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No it's far from simple which is why all governments have faced such problems and always will, in spite of your refusal to ever accept that fact. Throwing away millions of pounds of taxpayers money into an enterprise which isn't viable isn't going to protect jobs in the long run. All that happens when you do that is that other people wind up paying the price one way or another (because they become uncompetitive, have to raise their prices etc. or taxes have to rise) then people like you start complaining about that too. BL was a classic example of the same thing - countless millions wasted in order to produce cars that, for the most part were pretty poor and too few people wanted. In your world I take it they'd still be doing so in order to keep their workforce employed at the taxpayer's expense and you'd be delighted to be forced to buy their cars despite them being an inferior/higher priced product than their competition's.
It seems you want lower prices and the benefits of market competition and choice when it suits but then complain when that same market competition causes unviable businesses to fold.