Nonsense? Well if you say so.
So please explain to me why many area’s in the Midlands, the North West and the North East are having all these problems? Maybe because there is nothing to do? No jobs, no income?
There are many people who are in total denial about the loss of industry because it is shameful.
Brough/Cadderton/Woodford are the perfect example why so much has gone, because they simply stopped developing products. What other country in the world would consider to still be building a 1950’s airliner (which had problems), with a modified wing in 2010? Where is the replacement Hawk? Nowhere! Everything has been milked to death.
There are a few surviving healthy companies (RR, JCB, Airbus Uk, etc.) but it is nothing compared to what was.
There is a huge service sector, a big financial sector, but that can not compensate for the mass employement and the healthy income from a large industry.
They did a survey to see what happened to the many staff at Rover in Longbridge after factory closure, many ended up with lower payed and lower skilled jobs.
Just look what happened to all the old aviation factories: Housing, storage, etc. How is that supposed to make money and provide employment?
Listing numbers and make it all look good on paper is one thing, reality is sometimes different.
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