Well, there you are then, close all the Universities, no need as everything you will ever want to know is on Wikipedia -- and of course it is 100% accurate and nothing to do with Lies, damned lies, and Statistics!
Well, I did say he thought we hardly made anything at all, I may have been wrong about it being our biggest sector, (depends on your point of view) but it is very important and needs to grow dramatically -- look what has happened relying on the Bankers and Economists telling us Financial services is all! Nobody is working to spend any money on Financial services!
If Manufacturing isn't important, why do we not close Rolls Royce, British Aerospace etc.? Why do Toyota and Nissan invest so heavily in Car production here, cant be low wages or they would have shut up shop here and gone to Eastern Europe or somewhere else. Maybe, just maybe we can be good at it, if supported by Government not destroyed by them. (Well done Margaret!
)Again, look at Germany, about 22% of GDP is Manufacturing, and growing, and they are the best off in Europe, so, not being the centre of Financial Services doesn't seem to have done them any harm has it?
I think I would rather work in the German pencil factory than be unemployed in a Country with such a wonderful Financial Services Sector and Benefits systems! They have good labour laws there and strong Unions, but a work ethic our whole system does not encourage! Nobody takes anything but emergency personal calls while working, or texts, do that in your break!
Nothing will change, until the whole system of Government is changed.
Catesby R