Social policy wise.
I would encourage education in non academic subjects to be made available to every willing person. Trade skills, engineering, and physical labour are not a second class route to employment, they are valuable necessities. Not everyone needs anything more than a basic Academic grounding.
Once we've got a world class workforce with every possible ability richly represented, then maybe we will not need so much migration, and maybe we can see manufacturing and production return to the UK on the scale it was before its decline in the late 60's, but this time efficiently, properly and privately run for a profit without the old militant trade unionism. Japan and Germany show we can make good stuff and compete with China.
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:22, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Are you twelve?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:24, Reply)

He's a knob

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:25, Reply)

Does that make me a pædo?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:26, Reply)

'Hi my name is Dr Shambolic
I like Bratz and ponies do you like Bratz and ponies want 2 meet?'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:27, Reply)

I'm placing myself under arrest
for the safety of the community.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:29, Reply)

'Stop me before I strike again'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:31, Reply)

Actually ... can you stop me after I've struck again.
One more for the road and all that.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:33, Reply)

'Thanks awfully.

Yours,

DS x'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:35, Reply)

He is a 12-year-old knob.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:27, Reply)

Mmmm, 12-year old's knobs.....

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:28, Reply)

top noncing there.
well, it's not so much a nonce as a full-on paed, but, whatevs.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:43, Reply)

*fives self*

*returns to D Wing for my own protection*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:44, Reply)

no, no they don't, not really (as in Japan and Germany).
at least not in the way you think they do.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:44, Reply)

Not just on price, on quality.

(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:45, Reply)

Right. Firstly a lot of german "quality" brands are re-badged Far Eastern stuff
especially in electronics. Secondly, how are you proposing we magic a "quality" UK brand out of thin air, exactly?

They have a reputation which allows them to charge more to cover the higher manufacturing costs of first world labour. They aren't somehow "better" at making things, it's all an elaborate ruse that relies on brand repuation above all else. That being the crucial factor that UK brands are somewhat lacking.

People will pay more for an Audi than a Seat. It's still the same fucking car built, more or less, by the same people with the same stuff.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:49, Reply)

HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF AMSTRAD???????


*pisses self*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 16:50, Reply)