Car Factory Closes

[jrtv]

So another car factory closes with the loss of 3000 jobs, I lost my job last year with the closure of our pottery industry and my daughter has had her notice from the NHS where she has just compleated 7 years training, what the hell is happening to our country ?

[Lonnie]

Whats happening to this country, two words, this goverment. I know i'll get hung, drawn and quartered for saying that, but i've said it before, the main aim of this goverment, is to destroy this country, and they are succeeding.

I don't think you can apportion blame to any previous goverment, this lot have been in power long enough to sort most of it out, and things are getting worse. In the end, you have to blame the electorate.

[Loosehead]

Yep, ditto, what Lonnie said.

[Lou Knee]

i would like to associate myself with the remarks of the previous speaker

[Gef]

I think you will find that the car manufacturer is French. Perhaps you would be better asking them?

[Will666]

Have to agree with Lonnie 100%. They have destroyed the small businesses with more and more red tape, got rid of the manufacturing businesses and crippled all businesses in the countryside (where i live and TRY to work).

[mightyWBA]

I work in manufacturing in the West Midlands,and have done so since I left school 20 years ago.

I have witnessed first hand our industry, and skills being destroyed.Our company probably won't last much longer we have been going for 30 years but the end is quite near.

Tescos etc beckons on a fiver an hour.

Everybody moans,but no one does anything about it.

Apathy rules in this country,but who cares?

[sp1814]

Hang on...the government wants to destroy this country???

Errr...why? For what reason would a government want to destroy the country for whom it's elected?

Go on...why?

[tomestone]

It isnt just the uk,Italy,germany and france are suffering more than us,the government runs the infrastucture,while the multinationals run the countrys,most of the manufacturing companys are investing in the low cost economies normally the eastern bloc ones.the politicians spin the global economy line when in fact global trade links have always been there, the issue is the cost of making products in the uk is to great while the manufacturers still want to sell their goods at large profits here,when they are made abroad cheaply.thats why the americans embargo goods.

[Lonnie]

sp1814, i'm not going to go into it on this thread, it'll take too long. i've spoken my mind and explained enough times, on this section, just go back a bit, and you'll find them.

[casaespana]

sp1814. The Thatcher Government had a good try. Their pursuit of Privatisation and the crushing of Trade Unions cost this country dearly. Of course they didn't mean to, but people had to be taught a lesson in economics.

[casaespana]

Lonnie. Are you too young to remember the Tories, or do you have a selective memory? Have you forgotten the news bulletins on a daily basis announcing the closure of factories, shipyards, mines and just about anything else that dared to employ people, or was it just BBC propaganda?

[Lonnie]

I remember those things very well, my point, is that this goverment has been in power long enough to at least go some way to putting things right, instead, they are blatently making things worse.

[youngmafbog]

So the Thatcher government had a godd try. Well cast YOUR mind back a bit more to what they inherited. The Unions did it to themselves, remomeber Scargil, Red Robbo etc.

As has been pointed out this lot have tied us in red tape wrapping us in a nanny state. That just makes manufacturing uneconimical so of course internationals will move - They ar not charities.

I suspect its more of a dark move to drag us into the euro and deeper into europe. Break the nation first then it has no choice. Go on Tony and Gordon prove me wrong.

[Loosehead]

yeah Casaespana you must be too young to remember what state the country was in after the last time socialism was allowed to get too far. The Unions where right out of hand, I admit some of the medicine Maggie had to administer was tough but it was necessary. Do you remember the phrase "sick man of Europe"? The Economy inherited by Labour this time in 1997 was so strong it's taken Blair and Brown almost a decade to wreck it, usually Labour can wreck an Economy much quicker than that.

[Loosehead]

For anyone that thinks Labour is interested in small business, exhibit A: IR35. Enough said!

[Booldawg]

This country destroys itself. We are fast becoming a trading nation, unable to compete with nations able to produce goods cheaper. Due to the cost of living in this country we will never be able to compete and keep costs down. Fine for people in non-productive industries such as insurance, finance and the import industry and logistics. No good for the worker though.

[qapmoc]

Well some of your comments might be based upon old data, it would appear that manufacturing stuff overseas is going to start getting very expensive sooner rather than later, more and more people are starting to be aware that Peak Oil is here now, that means from this point on, the worlds future energy supplies will be downhill all the way and as the oil supply will not meet demand the price will continue to climb until things like the cost of air travel is out of sight for normal people and things like air freight will not be economic and even sea freight will be for luxuries only and that will be the end of globalisation. BTW if you havent travelled abroad in your life, then within the next couple of years might be your last chance ever to do it.

If you doubt peak oil is here then read this internal US Army Corps of Engineers report on the subject and also think about why the UK govt has suddenly decided to go back to nuclear power stations. Google ''peak oil'' or ''oil depletion'' for some more info on this stuff.

The really sad point is that by the time the world realises this it will be too late for the UK as all the industries and expertise for manufacturing will no longer exist in any viable form in the country.

If anybody wants an idea for a future industry start-up I would suggest that you try a bicycle factory, but dont use rubber tyres or lamps that run from methane gas from the house cess pit.

[Ziggy11]

I also lost my job recently. Nowadays it seems to be happening more and more frequently that there are big job losses. I have found a very useful new site if you have experienced redundancy. It is called www.armchairadvice.co.uk and has lots of useful information about your legal rights.