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Originally Posted by katex
Just wondered Andrew .. what manufacturing industries would you have tried to resurrect/introduce into the Northwest in the last 12 years .. faced with the ongoing imports of cheap products ?
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To be honest, I don't know. As you say we can't compete with low skilled manufacturing.
Mancie my 20% figure is wrong I've no idea why I wrote it. There was a large structural change indeed. Particularly in the recession of the late 70s early 80s. Jobs in manufacturing declined just as much under Thatcher as it has under Blair/Brown though.
Thatcher made a lot of tough decisions. A lot of them I feel were needed though and we're much better off for it. An example being the closure of the pits.