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The British Economy falling to 7th.
The UK now has only the 7th largest economy in the world. We have been overtaken by Brazil. Germany and France are 4th and 5th respectively.
Time for the UK to re-establish our own 'Mittelstand' like Germany and abandon the focus on the service sector and consumerism. |
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Well maybe it would help if we pulled out of Europe?
Where did you read this, everything I have seen puts us in 6th, above Brazil So what do you suggest, we should start manufacturing our own textiles, electronics and cars again? |
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Just bought myself a new printer/scanner/photocopier (HP) thinking it was made in the USA but it was made in China -and they didn't put the USB connector in so I can't try it out, ****! |
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Germany and France are 4th and 5th. Personally I'd hitch a ride on their economies and we might make it back up to 6th.
The problem is short-termism in this country. Companies are looking for a quick buck instead of long term gains and investment like they do in Germany. Of course Germany had the advantage of investing in their manufacturing economy after the war because they couldn't spend on armaments. This has paid off for them ever since. Same in Japan. |
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True, but I would not ever buy a car, or for that matter a large kitchen appliance again that was not made in Germany. The build quality is excellent. Shame that even at our best, Aston, Morgan, Jaguar we cannot compete.
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Dr. Ulrich Bez (b. November 1943 in Bad Cannstatt, Germany) is a German-businessman and currently CEO of Aston Martin motorcars.
Jaguar Cars Ltd is part of the Jaguar Land Rover business a subsidiary of the Indian company Tata Motors. |
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I am aware, also Rolls Royce, owned by BMW and Bentley Volkswagen group.
If I am ever in the position I would love a Aston, DBS preferably. But the simple fact remains, the Range Rover is no where near as well built as its rivals, the Cayenne, the Toureg, X5, Land Cruiser, they have never ever built a good one. Heck it's not even as well built as my Brother in laws Nissan Micra (which is built in Sunderland) Is this a discussion about who owns who? What do you suggest we do? |
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so we got a slightly more poop economey than france or gemanys poop economey's .
now im not saying dodgy figure shifting is at work but isnt it strange how cameron stands up to the EU and all of a sudden two major EU counties are shown in such good light. well good luck to them they can waste whatever money they have clawed back recusing the more poop countries like greece's economey ;) |
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This is akin to kids in a schoolyard arguing about who has the most conkers.
In fact none of them have any. All they have is spent matchsticks representing conkers, because the banker holds the lot (for safekeeping):rolleyes: . He has loaned them out elswhere and is pretending to still have them. There are no conkers :D |
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The interesting bit is that they forecast the UK will drop one place but will be higher on the list than France(dropping 4 places) by 2020. Also we'll overtake France by 2016.
So if we're on the edge of recession the French must be in a really bad way! |
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Top 10 happiest countries in the world | Financial Jesus Which leads me to think that lists like this don't mean all that much.:rolleyes: |
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