Made In Britain

[Night Train]

Just watching this and it showed the Brompton factory.
Amazing quality brazing and the worker puts their name to the part they made.

 

[TheDoctor]

I shall catch this on IPlayer...

 

[Night Train]

Nice bit of Brompton BMX too.

 

[TheDoctor]

I have taken a Brommie round a skate park. My dad thought I was insane.
He *may* have a point.

 

[Night Train]

I fancy a job at Brompton now.

 

[asterix]

Well at least there's one British manufacturer that hasn't folded.

 

[MacB]

I liked the Brompton bit but found the whole show quite depressing despite the fact that it was obviously aiming for an upbeat positive vibe. It couldn't disguise certain plain facts and the numbers don't stack up. It came across as a feel good advert for corporate globalisation and neo liberalism, singing the positives and skimming, or ignoring completely, the negatives.

I found it laughable that the 'protection' for our high end and niche manufacturing was the fact it was made in London/UK. Though it acknowledged that our manufacturing sector employs far less people it didn't really cover what they all do now. Some woolly reference to the service sector and an anecdotal style claim that all the ex suit factory people were now happily employed elsewhere.

The way he was spinning it I half expected a line about not being able to make an omelette without cracking an egg.

 

[buddha]

...I found it laughable that the 'protection' for our high end and niche manufacturing was the fact it was made in London/UK. Though it acknowledged that our manufacturing sector employs far less people it didn't really cover what they all do now. Some woolly reference to the service sector and an anecdotal style claim that all the ex suit factory people were now happily employed elsewhere...

I was channel flicking and only saw that bit: The woman who used to make clothes, but now does an admin/service sector job in a warehouse of imported clothes. I got annoyed that it was being portrayed as satisfactory, or even as some kind of 'improvement', so I changed channel again.

 

[Ludwig]

Yes it was a little depressing. The fact is that the few that are in British manufacturing are paying too much tax to support the millions on benefits and in the public sector who once worked in the factories and down the mines. India China, Brazil don't have this huge tax and public sector burden and we can never compete here in the UK.

 

[Night Train]

We should just start lots of small 'cottage' industries and see if it can push the average up a bit.

I'm doing my bit with my furniture workshop bit I'm not exporting as yet.

 

[asterix]

Sadly I only saw a bit of it but I can easily believe the above comments.

Is it ironic that I can't get the programme on iplayer abroad? (Admittedly my UK TV licence doesn't cover these premises but I do have a French TV license to make up for it.)

 

[ASC1951]

I liked the Brompton bit but found the whole show quite depressing despite the fact that it was obviously aiming for an upbeat positive vibe. It couldn't disguise certain plain facts and the numbers don't stack up. It came across as a feel good advert for corporate globalisation and neo liberalism, singing the positives and skimming, or ignoring completely, the negatives.

At least Evan Davis, unlike many presenters, is a trained economist with a wide grasp of his subject.

As for 'plain facts', MacB, don't forget that you have a very fixed view of economics and one which is well to one end of the spectrum. That's not a criticism, we all approach these subjects from a position of prejudice. But prejudice is what it is.

 

[asterix]

Steady on! This is Cafe..

 

[GaryA]

Coming from a scientific background, it doesnt take long studying (sorry grasping the basics in my spare time) of economics to see that 'a trained economist' has about as much credibility as 'a trained astrologist'

 

[GaryA]

Steady on! This is Cafe..

Missed you asterix