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This Virus just keeps on exposing the BS. It does have a silver lining.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51896168
The government has urged manufactures such as car companies to start making ventilators to deal with the worsening coronavirus crisis.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC engineering firms should consider switching some manufacturing to help ramp production of the vital equipment.
He accepted it was the kind of policy normally reserved for times of war.
From a Government that won the election on Brexit on the work of Minford who said - we should run down our manufactring sector.
Patrick Minford was once described as “Margaret Thatcher’s favourite Economist”. A few years ago he acknowledged that his ideas would “mostly eliminate manufacturing”. “Britain is good at putting on a suit” he said.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/p...onomy-and-cut-the-cost-of-bmws-and-even-brie/
The cost of a BMW or the price tag of an imported fridge would suddenly drop
and our resources would shift from manufacturing to services — raising
living standards for all of us.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51896168
The government has urged manufactures such as car companies to start making ventilators to deal with the worsening coronavirus crisis.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC engineering firms should consider switching some manufacturing to help ramp production of the vital equipment.
He accepted it was the kind of policy normally reserved for times of war.
From a Government that won the election on Brexit on the work of Minford who said - we should run down our manufactring sector.
Patrick Minford was once described as “Margaret Thatcher’s favourite Economist”. A few years ago he acknowledged that his ideas would “mostly eliminate manufacturing”. “Britain is good at putting on a suit” he said.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/p...onomy-and-cut-the-cost-of-bmws-and-even-brie/
The cost of a BMW or the price tag of an imported fridge would suddenly drop
and our resources would shift from manufacturing to services — raising
living standards for all of us.
