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Manufacturing Jobs
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During the last 4 years of Tory rule 200,000 manufacturing new jobs were created.
Since Labour came to power 1,000,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost - MGRover must be added to that total.
Of course we shouldn't really complain as Labour are managing the economy so successfully!
Since Labour came to power 1,000,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost - MGRover must be added to that total.
Of course we shouldn't really complain as Labour are managing the economy so successfully!
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Perhaps the government should have put more money in to the company, though I would have thought thats something you wouldnt have approved of.
if rover didnt make shit cars then they would be fine
they have not had a new model for god knows how long, just remade versions of old models
That's capitalism for you.
Just like the miners under Thatcher eh?
Should the government be propping up a private company?
Perhaps not, but when 6000 jobs are at stake surely it cant hurt so badly.
I'm not sure how shit they are / were, but for the specifications they were always way overpriced.
Let market forces decide...
Perhaps you would be so kind as to remind us of the unemployment, inflation and interest rate levels in 1996 and compare them to today then... just to underline your comment that is...
The goverment of the day needs to take steps in this case as the chinese currency should obviously be allowed to float. Manufacturing productivity has suffered badly under this goverment and there is far to much regulation. The government is far from blameless here.
He isn't giving it to prop up a private company, have you actually read the news?
Jobs in my area are being lost because of factories moving overseas though, leaving a lot of older people who've done nothing but <insert factory job here> for the past fifteen years with no other experience or qualifications. Plus the growth in the retail and bar industry tends to be biased towards younger people a lot of the times. It's a fact of life in towns like mine.
And minimum wage makes living possible in the UK.
Lets face it MG Rover made crap cars and was never a serious contender in the market place, why else did BMW sell it for £10 + £500 million of soft loan + a stock of 65,000 vehicles. They were glad to get rid of the albatross and rightly so! You'd have to be a mug to buy a Rover - drive a Beemer myself!
What Phoney should be keeping his eye on, and there has no mention of it in the Labour manifesto, is the probable closure of 6,000 rural post offices over the next 1-2 years. These post offices often form the hub of local communities and once they've gone, they've gone. We've seen the Banks close many of their small rural branches, the same is happening to the rural post offices and Labour is doing nothing about it.
Wake up Phoney before its too late!
What odds will you offer on him actually doing this?
In a sense it is, I know these days it's very complicated and gots loads of bits and bots on but it is a natural progression - or degression (if thats the opposite) depending on your perspective.
And I love the ranting comment Jim
So what trends to expect?
Well for starters maybe the LEAs could pay for classes to help people that have been made redundent from factories to become computer literate.
How so?
You obviously don't think so, so why not explain why?
It was only too willing to extend an £150 million aid package to off-set the effects of MG Rover, why can't it act as decisively with the rural post offices?
"market forces" are the result of a particular system that arose partly through historical accident and partly through design and is kept in place through force, therefore not really a result of "natural" progression y'know?
Oh, sorry, Tories making jobs, eh?
Your above quote would have read exactly the same if he hadn't gone there with "It sickens me he didn't go there" instead.
Stop being so fucking transparent.