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On the morning that British Steel is sold to Indian company Tata I am of course aware that the manufacturing sector in high-income Britain is in decline. I saw an interview with James Dyson in whihc he explained that it was no longer possible to site sophisticated manufacturing operations in the UK because you have to be situated near the people making the parts and these are all based in the far East nowadays.

But this is because the UK is moving up the economic evolutionary scale. It is still making plenty of profit from overseas manufacturing operations and these profits are generating employment in the UK.

Your statistic concerning the majority of citizens receiving their income from the state is true of Northern Ireland, but I didn't know it was also true of the rest of the UK. Even if it's true, it need not be scary. What is wealth for if it can't be used putting people to work in activities that are of benefit to society? Is that not also a knd of wealth?

The type of thinking that classifies a producer of chewing gum as 'productive' or 'wealth creating' but labels a physiotherapist in the NHS as unproductive is archaic.

<blockquote data-quote="Grey" data-source="post: 2089538" data-attributes="member: 65112">On the morning that British Steel is sold to Indian company Tata I am of course aware that the manufacturing sector in high-income Britain is in decline. I saw an interview with James Dyson in whihc he explained that it was no longer possible to site sophisticated manufacturing operations in the UK because you have to be situated near the people making the parts and these are all based in the far East nowadays.But this is because the UK is moving up the economic evolutionary scale. It is still making plenty of profit from overseas manufacturing operations and these profits are generating employment in the UK.Your statistic concerning the majority of citizens receiving their income from the state is true of Northern Ireland, but I didn&#039;t know it was also true of the rest of the UK. Even if it&#039;s true, it need not be scary. What is wealth for if it can&#039;t be used putting people to work in activities that are of benefit to society? Is that not also a knd of wealth?The type of thinking that classifies a producer of chewing gum as &#039;productive&#039; or &#039;wealth creating&#039; but labels a physiotherapist in the NHS as unproductive is archaic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grey, post: 2089538, member: 65112"] On the morning that British Steel is sold to Indian company Tata I am of course aware that the manufacturing sector in high-income Britain is in decline. I saw an interview with James Dyson in whihc he explained that it was no longer possible to site sophisticated manufacturing operations in the UK because you have to be situated near the people making the parts and these are all based in the far East nowadays. But this is because the UK is moving up the economic evolutionary scale. It is still making plenty of profit from overseas manufacturing operations and these profits are generating employment in the UK. Your statistic concerning the majority of citizens receiving their income from the state is true of Northern Ireland, but I didn't know it was also true of the rest of the UK. Even if it's true, it need not be scary. What is wealth for if it can't be used putting people to work in activities that are of benefit to society? Is that not also a knd of wealth? The type of thinking that classifies a producer of chewing gum as 'productive' or 'wealth creating' but labels a physiotherapist in the NHS as unproductive is archaic. [/QUOTE]

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