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Originally Posted by cashman
Speaking of oil in lamp DtheP, 1986 was a bit too late, The rot started more n 30 yrs before that wi the cotton industry, old looms etc, replaced by new in India n eastern places, also No health n safety, pay much less, fer obvious reasons, If re-investment had occured in the U.K. the decline of industry would have been much slower.
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And who manufactured these looms and sold them out to these far Eastern places?....I am sure you know as I do quite a few out-fitters from round here who made tidy little sums working out in these woe-begotten places showing Johnny foreigner how to operate em.
Selling off the family silver some would say...others
moi included would say the inexorable march of globalisation.