He's placing the blame for decline in industry with membership of the EU yet his own company moved manufacturing overseas (outside of the EU) to save money.
If you were there in the 70's you will realise that uncompetitive businesses, like British Leyland, British Coal, British Steel etc had unuons that refused to accept there was competition in the world and efficiencies needed to be made.
Are you trying to say that Maggie Thatcher was blameless?
Did they vote to give billions to the EU and to have open borders?
She did what she had to and made us more competitive in the industries we could be competitive in.
I hear the fishing quotas quoted a lot but stock levels were perilously low and have recovered significantly as a result, arguably saving the industry from terminal decline. Despite this quota, the GP of the UK fishing industry has increased by 20% in the last 8 years alone to circa 35% GP margin. We still control where our quota is allocated too and our national decision has been to put 23%(!!) of our total quota on one (Dutch owned!) monster-ship. Decisions like that, and technology advances meaning less ships are needed anyway, have decimated small port fishing as a result.
I hear the fishing quotas quoted a lot but stock levels were perilously low and have recovered significantly as a result, arguably saving the industry from terminal decline. Despite this quota, the GP of the UK fishing industry has increased by 20% in the last 8 years alone to circa 35% GP margin. We still control where our quota is allocated too and our national decision has been to put 23%(!!) of our total quota on one (Dutch owned!) monster-ship. Decisions like that, and technology advances meaning less ships are needed anyway, have decimated small port fishing as a result.
To compare 1950s industry output to that of more recent times is misleading at best and conveniently fails to even list, nevermind discuss, the 'other factors' it acknowledges exist while it is more than happy to simultaneously directly link the EU with not saving many of our industries from decline.
Take the cement industry too as another example - absolutely decimated by the 1970s energy crisis, a decline which went on into the 90s and hammered again in the 00s by the global recession which saw a huge drop in construction activity. As those old factories have finally been replaced with more modern facilities combined with austerity measures driving efficiency, the cement industry has recovered significantly to it's current position - achieved as part of the EU but no more because of it than any of the decline preceding it
These industry one liners here are synonymous with the leave campaign and akin to the 'we send the EU £350 million a week' bus. One line propaganda sentences taken entirely out of context and without proper expert view or discussion, with the sole purpose of tricking people like you into thinking they have 'researched' the issues or feeding you enough of a snippet that you won't bother digging any deeper because it's what you want to believe.
PS I'm 38, so you'll have to make do with a different adjective than young, when you call me a c**t.
So how many coal mines do we have left? Have they only shut down the worse ones? We had thousands that could never find another job and just imported the coal we needed.
It is easy to word it like everything is now OK. But it isn't.I hear the fishing quotas quoted a lot but stock levels were perilously low and have recovered significantly as a result, arguably saving the industry from terminal decline. Despite this quota, the GP of the UK fishing industry has increased by 20% in the last 8 years alone to circa 35% GP margin. We still control where our quota is allocated too and our national decision has been to put 23%(!!) of our total quota on one (Dutch owned!) monster-ship. Decisions like that, and technology advances meaning less ships are needed anyway, have decimated small port fishing as a result.
To compare 1950s industry output to that of more recent times is misleading at best and conveniently fails to even list, nevermind discuss, the 'other factors' it acknowledges exist while it is more than happy to simultaneously directly link the EU with not saving many of our industries from decline.
Take the cement industry too as another example - absolutely decimated by the 1970s energy crisis, a decline which went on into the 90s and hammered again in the 00s by the global recession which saw a huge drop in construction activity. As those old factories have finally been replaced with more modern facilities combined with austerity measures driving efficiency, the cement industry has recovered significantly to it's current position - achieved as part of the EU but no more because of it than any of the decline preceding it
These industry one liners here are synonymous with the leave campaign and akin to the 'we send the EU £350 million a week' bus. One line propaganda sentences taken entirely out of context and without proper expert view or discussion, with the sole purpose of tricking people like you into thinking they have 'researched' the issues or feeding you enough of a snippet that you won't bother digging any deeper because it's what you want to believe.
PS I'm 38, so you'll have to make do with a different adjective than young, when you call me a c**t.
So what was the saving putting a lot of people out of work in areas where job opportunities were very low just to import coal that was a bit cheaper?
I'm not saying anything is OK. I'm saying attributing the things that are not OK to the EU based on one line sentences quoting carefully chosen 'facts' is bullshit.
As I said the unions were too strong. Now they are too weak to properly look after the working man. For instance if the unions were stronger there would not be such a thing as zero hours contracts at most places. And nobody can say that they are good for anyone but those running the companies using them....usually Tories.
I can't be far out from your views then
A happy medium would have been both sides having a say. Before the unions didn't listen. Now the unions don't get a say. And they are on the side of us. The worker. So the man on the street has lost his say. How can that be good?
