crookie
Well-known member
You know the point he is making. In 2012 we were 3rd in Europe behind Germany and Italy and 7th in the world. So therefore your claim the UK makes nothing is clearly wrong.
It's just a shame that large parts of our manufacturing base are foreign owned, the motor industry for example. Foreign companies have confidence in our workforce, sad that the spivs in the City couldn't stop falling over themselves to flog off our manufacturing industry to foreign firms.
ICI, Scottish & Newcastle, Cadbury, Lucas, Pilkington Glass, British Steel, Mini/Rolls Royce, Bentley, Jaguar/Land Rover, Westland, Sunseeker, Invensys to name but a few