John.
‘Selling England by the Pound ‘
Very apt when you think what successive Governments have sold to foreign countries, that Cherry pick all the best bits, then walk off back to their own country, discarding what’s left as a child would with a half eaten bag of crisps, thrown away in the street full of litter…
There’s a glut of cheap low grade steel now, but at some point prices will level out, and then without Steel works we will have to buy again, but at a vastly higher price.
But hey, so what, we’ll muddle through, just like we have by allowing our Nuclear and Coal power stations to run down over the last 30 years, so we have to rely on the likes of the French and Chinese to build them for us, as the people that use to build them have now long gone…
Once a skill section & infrastructure has been broken up by closure, it can’t be brought back again, instead the use of foreign expertise with all the costs that entails must be used and you’ve only got to look at the Hinkley Point C debacle and you’ll see that farming out keystones of a nation will never be a cheaper alternative in the long run…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35415187
If the powers that be ****** this up, this country will rue the day we let this happen.
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