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It seems to have escaped your notice Grey that owing to successive Chancellors' tax regimes, the manufacturing base of the UK has already all but disappeared.

It's scary that a MAJORITY of people of working age are now, if not on state benefits, employed by the state; ie their salaries are paid from the taxes paid by those actually producing something /providing a service which can be sold or exported; and their index-linked pensions are likewise paid - and will be into their cushioned old age - by the ever-diminishing wealth-creating minority. It's not a sustainable scenario. The country, both privately and publicly, is massively in debt already.

And I don't want no robot picking my horse's hooves nor curry-combing his tail, thank you very much