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Originally Posted by gondola
I am not defending the Conservative governement. Far from it. Thatcher killed off manufacturing in this country and it has never since revived.
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That is true enough. Labour have done little or nothing to help it. All these environmental taxes on fuel used etc are crippling our industry and doing nothing to help the environment. All that happens is that our heavy industry is forced to close and we import the goods instead of making them at home. The goods are now made abroad where the same or more likely more CO2 is pumping into the atmosphere. The effect on climate change levy and other's, reduce the UK's output but do nothing to reduce the global problem We are just shifting the problem into somebody else's back yard. Meanwhile we have less jobs here in the UK.