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Originally Posted by Cyfr
I see lots of positives Blair has done.
How come you mentioned only one type of service sector job and yet listed several manufacturing? Not really a fair balance. Of course it works out better to produce them here because of the carbon footprint, but the majority of people buying goods dont care where its from as long as its cheap, which is what we can't compete with here because we pay too high wages for the products people want compared to the likes of china.
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These things you mention Cyfr on this subject are things that would have happened regardless of who was the prime minister, mundane everyday civil cervice tasks, put in place to suit the financial climate. This country and the rest of Europe the USA, you name it are no longer or will not be general manufacturing bases. The third world led by the most populated country on earth is awash with cheap labour, no government has control of that situation, Tony Blairs failings undoings call it what you will, were his foreign policies, Iraq, Afganistan etc. Great leaders are judged by history, this man did not learen the lessons of history. How many times have this country had a bloody nose in Afganistan in the last two centuries, the Russians got their backsides kicked as we surely will again. The Yanks never learn, and he followed sheeplike behind. The lesson is young man you can not defeat the will of the people to rule themselves, as the yanks learned to their cost in Vietnam, and will find again in Iraq etc.