| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:ReWhat the march was really like - from the inside.. | |
| Posted by: | Steve Taylor | |
| Date/Time: | 28/11/10 14:29:00 |
| "I think you are talking rubbish there ...our manufacturing moves to where ever the work force is cheapest, and the human rights are the worst...its explotation, its capitalism, its letting the markets forces rule. " Carrie, I am not sure which part of my post you believe to be rubbish or indeed if you think my whole post is rubbish? I think we all agree that our UK manufacturing has moved to where the work force is cheaper, but I don't agree it is necessarily the cheapest. UK manufacturers and blue chip companies who have relocated abroad, still have a reasonable sense of ethics and responsibility but the point I try to make is that to promote and support even more strikes and mass walkouts is not helpful at this time as it makes us look like the laughing stock. Your ideology will do little more than make a bad situation worse. Whilst Germany had competition from China, India and all its neighbours in Eastern Europe, it managed to recover from the recession is just a few months. Why? - Because Germany still maintains a healthy manufacturing industry and is THE major exporter of engineered products from Europe. Germany has succeeded in fighting off competition from the cheaper Eastern states whilst OUR remaining manufacturing industry seems to only survive by employing cheaper immigrants. So where are the jobs for the Brits? How many of us know friends and family who are now working in China and Russia and elsewhere. Is that the future for our British graduates? Is that the future you want? Are you happy with the current situation that after so many years of Blair/Brown and the mass relocation of British manufacturers abroad that Cameron now has to travel to China and diplomatically beg the Chinese to keep human rights on its agenda? The damage is done and now we have to pick up the pieces - not make the situation even worse. This country needs to attract investment by proving we have a reliable (and educated) workforce, not scare it off. |