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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/...cid=spartanntp
When is this Government going to act. Or are they waiting for every major employer to axe everyone, and go for cheap imports form other countries.
It makes my blood boil when the government doesn't act on this. This country, should be the major manufacturer of major goods to go abroad, or in this country.
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The above post typed on a computer/tablet/phone probably assembled in China with parts made in, amongst others, Taiwan.
The fewer taxes companies pay the more we have to pay to make it up. To keep manufacturing within the UK we have to be prepared to pay more for products.
That sound good?
We simply cannot compete with other countries as far as things like coal and steel go. We're far better off pursuing high tech manufacturing, which we to an extent are. There is no mileage in the UK trying to subsidise lower technology industry. We will never be able to compete with countries whose health and safety is banal and whose cost of workforce and energy are a fraction of ours because they don't care about either.