^^this
That's one of the reasons I couldn't understand a government letting Rover go under for a measly few million quid, and then bail out banks with billions.

Rover, hate or, well...dislike them, did create jobs, and sold cars that were made by people with those jobs.

I don't know the stats of how many workers from that plant are still unemployed but I bet it's a fair few.

It's about time we started investing in our country again, for as far as I can tell, we make very little - the only, ahem, industry we had left that bought in serious money was the banking/investment industry - and look what happens when a sole industry has a monopolistic hold over a country.

It's the reason companies build themselves into groups of companies - if one part of their business is failing, then the others prop it up.

That way, we might actually have jobs that people feel good about as opposed to wiping the arses of MPs or 'working' for a council.
(dchurch bah, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 9:03, Reply)