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Originally Posted by Stuart
Not with the Government allowing the likes of Amazon to actively destroy the Retail industry.
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That's another good example of a situation in which large numbers of people care far less about other people's jobs than they do getting their stuff at a good price and delivered efficiently. It's all very well banging on about protecting jobs but when it's our money we're spending we tend to seek out the cheapest option for getting what we want and if that means buying from a massive conglomerate which pays hardly any tax so be it. There's a good deal of hypocrisy about.
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Originally Posted by Stop It
I was talking globally, but yes, we've been dropping production for a while anyway because of our lack of ability to compete, even in the good times.
I'm not for making this into a political football however, that does a dis-service to those jobs relying on a credible, long term solution for the industry.
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Sadly long-termism hasn't been a feature of many governments I can recall but with the pace of change ramping up ever faster, maybe the days of being able to plan well in advance for the future are over anyway.
The trouble is that in the time we're still chewing over what to do about a problem, then going through the inevitable protracted sequence of procedures before doing anything on the ground, the likes of the Chinese have already seen and done it, unhampered by the sort of red tape and legal issues we're always bogged down with. I reckon that we'll have cracked nuclear fusion before the new fission plants are built...