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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
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.
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We can't compete when China is dumping and Redcar could've been saved if the contracts for the mod went to them instead of just after allowing them to go bust giving the job to Sweden, guess they had their reasons though...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34392379
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-Britain.html