[Morecambe Ex Pat]

The country just doesn't seem to have the drive it once had. It is true that working in the large factories, ie. our own Howard and Bulloughs, or the many local cotton mills was nothing more than slave labour but there were plenty of jobs where people could earn money through honest toil.

The closure of these factories was looked on as improving the lot of the population but what it actually did was undermine the very fabric of society and created a situation where we had to import far too much stuff, most of which is utter tat really. Having said that, we also produced our share of crap, particularly in the car market but at least most of the tat was produced by British workers.