Johnny75
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Please explain how we're going to reinvigorate a manufacturing sector which has been left to rot for 35+ years and has been moribund for about 20 years.
What do you mean by manufacturing though? Our state of the art manufacturing and bespoke manufacturing is the best in the world and over capacity. We are never going to compete with China or Eastern Europe in volume manufacturing because of our success and consequently high wage rates and we were getting some very good deals from Spain before we voted leave.
One of the biggest issues our manufacturing sector had was its inability to change and innovate and it killed itself because of this, the unions and the rise of other economies doing the same thing but cheaper and in some cases better. The best example being Rover.
This is what makes the Brexit vote more confusing for me as those that are saying we should make manufacturing great again generally have absolutely no clue how manufacturing has changed over the last decade.