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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by techguyone
I think you like a lot of people seem to think we don't make anything anymore...
You're wrong
Some light reading for you: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/0...uring_figures/
And a chart for the hard of thinking. That's the Index of Production - our manufacturing base - failing to 'collapse'. The fact that we've also grown as global leaders in financial services does not mean that industry has gone away |
From that 8 year old article.
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third thing is that manufacturing has fallen as a percentage of the economy. It is down to about 12% or so by some measures now, where once it was 50%
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We also import 50% of our food, so a weaker pound means food price increases.
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