WHY AREN'T WE A MANUFACTURING COUNTRY?

Why is it that the experts that appear on the BBC Business program are knowledgeable about the global economy, while they ignore what is going on in the country?  The rest of the country doesn't want to know about the global economy.  Is it the London bubble effect?  They think they are masters of the world.  We will keep you informed about business they say.  Well why don't they get up off their backsides and go into the country and find out what business is like, and make this a feature of each day's programme. They should promote the manufacturing industries, particularly those firms who make things, and don't simply assemble from imported parts.  We need to get back to the time when we could manufacture everything in a product.   

WE SHOULD NATIONALISE TATA STEEL

The Government should nationalise TATA Steel before it is lost altogether to the German steel industry.  Will this be yet another of hundreds of factories or industries that successive Governments have let slip through their fingers?    

   

CARNEY - MR UNCERTAINTY!

Mr Carney has a worried frown.  Of course businesses and individuals feel uncertain about the future. The uncertainty weighs upon people, let alone the economy.  With an uncertain economic climate, we will see the flight of some businesses to other countries. But you don't have to be the Governor of the Bank of England to foresee that.  It seems that Mr Carney agrees with the Government, or rather Mr Hammond who is trying to rub the doom and gloom in.  While the uncertainty exists, for example if there is a transition period that extends the uncertainty, these trends will continue.  So it is better to get rid of the uncertainty, and get out of the EU now!!!  Mr Carney, why do you have to be so negative?  Are you really a Remainer?  Why can't you be more positive about Britain leaving the EU?  Do you want Brexit to work or not?  As you well know, uncertainty has a very positive side.   

HAMMOND DOESN'T WANT THE UK TO COMPETE WITH THE EU

This was about low taxes imposed on foreign companies wishing to invest in the UK. In a recent interview, Mr Hammond said: "I often hear it said that the UK is considering participating in unfair competition in regulation and tax" ... "That is neither our plan nor our vision for the future." So would the UK compete with the EU? The gutless Mr Hammond hasn't realised what business is all about. Yes it will compete. But not just for inward investment. Mr Hammond, we will compete with the EU, Germany included, and with any other country, for all business. Brexit will revitalise this country.