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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Guinness as always, you have highlighted some interesting points.
Alas, in the current situation many of these options are no longer available to us.
Hindsight is 20/20.
And you are right about the career politicians, those who were elected but know nothing of what real work is about, who are more interested in becoming 'celebrities' in political cirlces, making money off the backs of the working man.
True socialism has not existed since...well, let me think.....for a long time.
I can remember it...just.
In the past industries have gone to the wall because we exported jobs to countries who could do the job for less money.
We took our expertise and gave it to those people..we sold them machinery...and yet we didn't expect people in this country to want to buy goods that were cheaper, but did the local man out of a job...that is not a realistic expectation.
There are many reasons why industries failed...and they all need to be considered, not just the ones which fit into our own political ideology.
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100% agree in the expertise argument..you need look no further than the demise of Bulloughs/Platts who exported the machinery to the 'third world' and sent people over to show them how to fix, maintain and build these machines themselves.
The reason that produced goods are cheaper is a tad more complex...multi national companies looking to make maximum profit for investors pay sweat shop wages in countries without adequate employment laws, spend a few quid on a footballer advert and a product placement in a major film, charge top dollar for the latest fad for a few weeks and then offer them at sale prices (circumventing pricing regulations)...all the kids buy said product...vicious circle until some newspaper latches on, shames the multinational with photos of people with relatives who died in locked sweat shop fires, multinationals then hold their hands up aghast and say..'we didn't know, honest guv'..yeah right!
Yet again, the government is at fault, it should be a government responsibility to ban imports from countries without adequate employment laws. It really is that simple.
It's ludicrous that this country sets so much store by the Human Rights act yet chooses to ignore it regarding cheap imports!