“We need to remain a progressive country and re starting “old” manufacturing

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by David.

“We need to remain a progressive country and re starting “old” manufacturing bases for me would be the wrong thing to do and Britain won’t be positioned strongly enough in future markets if we don’t get ahead of the game (or rather stay ahead of the game as we are currently).”

I agree with you completely, I was talking historically that Conservative and Labour governments have failed to protect our traditional manufacturing industries as much as I think they could/should have (like Germany have apparently managed to achieve).

I agree it would be foolish to try to go back in time, but we should in the future protect what we have left and if possible grow those industries alongside the new industries.

I can’t think of any good reason why shipyards, a traditional British manufacturing industry, should ever be neglected as they have been in Britain in recent history. With the world becoming more and more dependant on trade there will always be an increasing need for new ships for transporting trade and the leisure industry. We used to be the best ship builders in the world, it was foolish not to protect that industry as best we could. Ship building is a skilled industry and so fits in well with how Britain should be moving forward in the world today.

I’m not thinking protectionism here, but tax breaks etc… to help useful industries to flourish in Britain. Not a manufacturing industry, but look how Canada encourages film makers and animators, more and more programs I watch on TV are filmed on location in Canada.

PostMan Pat is created in Canada (or was it Japan?). Our youngest son (13) might go into animation as a career (loves drawing anime and manga and we are that concerned we’ve encouraged him to learn Japanese so he has options outside Britain when older.

David