On Aug 21, 7:52*pm, Boltar wrote:
On 20 Aug, 12:07, MIG wrote:

From my point of view, British industry continues to be deliberately
destroyed by governments (from Thatcher onwards most spectacularly) to
remove any bargaining power from those resisting the unbridled greed
of multinational companies.

Really? I think you'll find governments in the past have bailed out a
lot of british industry including British leyland despite the unions
being bloody minded sods with constant strikes, work to rule and ****
poor quality of product. I'll be generous and assume Red Robbo thought
he was doing his workers a favour. In the end though all he did was
cause our main car manufaturer to have a 30 year slide into oblivion.

Funny that when Ford wanted to cut its workforce in Europe a few years
ago, it sacked the ones in Dagenham rather than the ones in Germany.

This wasn't because of efficiency, because the Dagenham workers were
more efficient.

It was because the unions were weaker in the UK and there was less
legal protection.

When they want to sack workers, they don't care how good they are,
they just care how easy they are to sack, and the weaker the unions
are, the more the multinational companies will wreck communities
wherever they feel like it.

Big business isn't interested in "the country", it has far wider
interests, and governments are only interested in sucking up to big
business (and many ministers see their role as a long job interview).