Over 24,000 manufacturing jobs lost in Hampshire (From Daily Echo)

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  Ant Smoking MP wrote:
  This news is awful and realy sums up successive Governments totally bankrupt attitudes to manufacturing. rather than invest in manufacturing , both new Labour and Conservatives have embraced a Neo Liberal agenda which favours the service sector instead actually making things.
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  Hulla baloo lives in an alternative reality. He would do he is a typical Tory and they have a track record of shame in this area. Why is Germany, with very restrictive and in the UK's view, inflexible labour laws still keeping its successful manufacturing base? It is because successive German government value and invest in manufacturing as opposed to the UK in the last 30 years which couldnt care less!!

  You have to consider that German manufacturing has been based on high quality products- VW, Porsche, Bosch, Siemens etc. These are high end goods of which there are no UK equivalents. Had we focused on quality rather than quantity we could have competed against the likes of Korea and Japan instead of failing as we did. The problems started in the 60's by the 80's it was too late."
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