CORBYN IN COVENTRY - NO APOLOGIES

It was notable that Corbyn had nothing to say about the once important manufacturing industries (which people took pride in) which have been lost from Coventry under both Labour and Conservative Governments.  I would mention just a few: Courtaulds Fibre and Engineering Group, Massey Ferguson (we now buy their tractors),  Alfred Herbert Machine Tools (and a whole machine tool industry).  We once made rocket engines  at Ansty.  They formed the first stage of the Black Night rocket.  There wasn't just one foreign owned car company, but a plethora of them.  This is what globalisation and the EU (which also promotes it) has done to us in this area.  Successive governments have taken something very important to the British working man and women, and that is pride in their job and their company.  That is really what I want to see back.  This was why the British people voted to come out of the EU.  It was why many Labour voters did the same.  Manufacturing should represent at least 50% of our economic output, not 20%.  We are so vulnerable, unlike the Germans and Japanese.  It was as though Corbyn and Starmer were talking to themselves.